Attention to Detail

• Performs review of key areas of the assignment ensuring working papers and conclusions reached are presented well and justified.
• Takes pride in own work and takes personal responsibility for ensuring that the final product is accurate or high quality, and presented well.

Key Accountabilities

Decision Making

• Confident in taking decisions within agreed remit.
• Deals with instances of colleagues failing to adopt core values and respect by either addressing or escalating to senior team members when aware.
• Suggests solutions to problems rather than waiting for suggestions from senior colleagues.
• Supporting managers in delegated aspects of team management such as sickness reporting and holiday approvals.
• Participate in the interview and selection process for new junior hires.

Efficiency

• Communicates effectively when scope or timescales need to change.
• Reviews work in progress (WIP) under own control and raises draft fees for approval considering the stage of completion and work undertaken.
• Delivers work within agreed scope and timescales, meeting deadlines efficiently achieving desired recovery rates.

Living Our Values

• New to Azets: Shows good understanding of our company values, and making good progress towards consistently demonstrating required behaviours.
• Existing Colleague: Consistently ‘lives our values’ - demonstrates expected behaviours in line with our company values.
• OR: Is a role model for our company values, is seen as an ‘Ambassador' who leads by example.

Technical Skills

• Seeks to build on the skills and experience gained in their previous role as an advanced senior to develop further and continue learning.
• Has managerial responsibility for a number of non-complex clients running concurrently, prioritising workload to meet deadlines.
• Ensures everyone is clear on approach / risks / responsibilities at the outset of the audit process and drives objectives for team for their development.
• Provides timely feedback to individuals on their performance against these objectives.
• Begins to work directly reporting to partners on jobs within portfolio, taking charge of entire audit file and review of audit teamwork for presentation of both file and client deliverables.
• Leads points of discussion at client meetings, using knowledge of audit working papers and their results to direct / obtain resolution.
• Able to identify staffing requirements on large jobs / complex groups taking full responsibility of budget and subsequent tracking of progress to budget.
• Demonstrates a strong awareness of ethical considerations and key auditing standards including regulatory framework for throughout the audit process including non-audit service fees.
• Escalates any concerns to engagement lead.
• Performing manager review of the financial statements prepared by client – ensuring partners are receiving a high-quality final version of financial statements for review.
• Demonstrates knowledge of current changes within the industry to assist in developing fee proposals for clients, in addition to the use of an informed budget.
• Manages findings and reporting on any internal or external quality reviews – including supporting any subsequent root cause or remedial actions as necessary.
• Maintains commitment to producing high-quality work in all aspects of audit work.

Qualifications

• Holds an accountancy qualification or qualified by experience (e.g., ACA/ACCA/CA).

Essential Experience

• It is expected that the above core and technical skills will have been developed through study alongside work experience in an accountancy practice.