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The Role
As an Audit Senior, you will lead audit engagements, supervise junior staff, and ensure compliance within UK accounting and auditing standards. You will communicate with clients, review financial statements, and assess internal controls. Your role ensures audit quality, efficiency, and accurate reporting of financial data.
Core Skills
Client Focus
- Set budgets and monitor them against ongoing job progress and report results to manager
- Communicate overruns/additional services taking corrective action when appropriate and necessary
- Manage flexible working of self and assistants based around client needs and business deadlines
- Demonstrate ability to secure opportunities for Azets to add value to clients
- Take pride in getting the job done fully and well
- Is able to deal with challenging client feedback
Technical Excellence
- Provides support, guidance, and training to all team members and highlight areas of weakness through timely feedback
- Has strong sector knowledge, however, is aware of when to escalate more complex technical queries
Key Accountabilities
Commitment
- Takes responsibility for the workflow planning of the team
- Proactively seeks out new opportunities to develop their skills and experience away from purely operational tasks
- Takes responsibility for achieving goals and targets
- Can keep track and manage several tasks simultaneously
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Living Our Values
- Shows good understanding of our company values, and making good progress towards consistently demonstrating required behaviours
Technical Skills
- Can interpret and conclude on matters relating to group/component auditor requirements under ISA600 – where Azets operate as group auditor or component auditor
- Demonstrates ability to assess risk independently
- Be able to interpret group reorganisations or other more complex/less usual transactions and their impact on audit approach and resultant financial reporting
- Have a sound knowledge of appropriate accounting and auditing standards, together with Companies Act requirements necessary to produce accurate and compliant financial statements
- Able to lead internal audit planning, progress, and completion meetings ensuring salient matters are fully understood by the engagement team
- Proficient at leading the most complex audits delivering from planning to sign off including experience of long-term contract accounting, acquisition accounting, and other more complex areas
- Able to audit overseas subsidiaries / IFRS / contract accounting / acquisitions / disposals / restructures and other higher-level complexities within both file and financial statements
- Demonstrate ability to deliver first-year audits in setting up well-thought-out testing which clearly tackles identified risks
- Actively identify improvements to testing methodology with Audit Quality and Audit Efficiency as cornerstones
- Consider impacts on future years audits through ensuring points forward are updated. Points forward are truly considered for how the audit can be made more efficient or to provide stronger evidence
- Demonstrate awareness of all client deadlines (Companies House, Group reporting, Corporate Tax) and show commitment to work to them
- Liaise with other departments confidently where required
- Maintains commitment to producing high-quality work in all aspects of audit work
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Qualifications
- Studying towards or already achieved 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.
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