At a Glance
- Tasks: Join an award-nominated audit team, planning and supervising audits for diverse clients.
- Company: Top 50 accountancy firm known for its supportive culture and work-life balance.
- Benefits: Great development opportunities, competitive salary, and a laptop provided.
- Other info: Work with a variety of clients and enjoy excellent career growth potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact while gaining valuable experience in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: ACA or ACCA qualified or nearing finals, with 2.5 years of relevant audit experience.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Be part of an award nominated Audit team offering great experience, development opportunities and work-life balance in a top 50 Accountancy firm.
Main function of job: Audit senior/semi-senior reporting to audit managers and supervising more junior members of the audit team.
Main duties:
- This is a split role working on 80% audits and 20% accounts.
- Planning, supervising and carrying out audits with turnovers up to £250 million, including specialist audits e.g. FSA, pensions, solicitors, charities and schools.
- Jobs to be completed with minimal supervision, to deadlines and within budget.
- Supervision and assisting junior staff with technical accounting and auditing problems.
- Preparation of draft corporation tax computations.
- Preparation of draft statutory accounts and consolidated accounts under FRS102 from clients' draft figures.
- Drafting recommendations to management following audit fieldwork completion.
- Preparing responses for group reporting for clients where we are the component auditor.
- Larger accounts preparation jobs for audit exempt limited companies, partnerships, LLPs.
Equipment used: Use of computer packages including Proaudit, CCH Accounts Production (AP), Sage, Quick Books, Xero, Alphatax and Microsoft office would be desirable. Laptop is provided.
Qualifications/education required: Ideally ACA or ACCA qualified (degree not essential) or sitting finals imminently.
Experience required: At least 2.5 years' experience in a practice of similar size to Mercer and Hole or larger having had audit experience throughout their career to date.
Particular aptitudes/skills required: As well as being able to prepare completed audit files for a large variety of clients to a high standard with minimal guidance from manager, the applicant should be a good communicator and be able to deal confidently and effectively with both clients and staff alike. They should be able to cope with both pure audits and with jobs where the records are not straightforward and should be able to work within deadlines and budgets.
Audit Senior/Audit Semi-Senior - Rickmansworth employer: Mercer & Hole
Join our award-nominated Audit team in Rickmansworth, where we prioritise your professional growth and work-life balance within a top 50 Accountancy firm. We offer a supportive work culture that encourages development through hands-on experience with diverse clients, alongside the opportunity to mentor junior staff, ensuring a fulfilling and rewarding career path.
