Saffery
Audit - Senior Associate
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Audit Senior - Peterborough
The role
The Peterborough office is looking for an experienced, professional, and enthusiastic Qualified Senior, to join our audit team. Applicants must be either ACA or ACCA qualified and be able to display a commercially-minded and organized approach to client work.
The Responsibilities
This is a challenging and interesting role which will include exposure to a wide range of clients, often working to tight deadlines.
The role involves planning and delivering a complete audit file, to include:
- Audit planning section
- Assessing audit risks and materiality levels
- Designing and implementing testing work programmes
- Completion of audit fieldwork, applying professional scepticism throughout
- Clear documentation of audit findings and notes on judgemental matters
- Recording unadjusted misstatements and management letter points and discussing these with client team
- File completion, including summarising key audit findings for the partner’s attention
- Review of junior team member’s work, assisting in their development
- Regular communication with manager throughout audit process
- Responsibility for budgetary control and keeping manager informed thereon
- Key point of contact for liaising with client teams on all audit matters, as well as to achieve excellent client service
- Liaising with other Saffery teams, such as corporate tax, to ensure we provide a joined-up service
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The team
The Audit team within the Peterborough office comprises staff ranging from Directors to audit assistants and audit juniors. The team reports to all of the partners within the office on a variety of tasks ranging from audit and accounts preparation and ad-hoc client queries.
You
- ACA/ACCA qualified
- Audit experience, including planning and completion
- It is preferable to have experience in CCH AP and AA as well as Inflo
- Excellent communication skills
- Client focused with commerciality awareness
- Computer experience: Excel, Word and ideally CCH accounts and audit automation
- Good technical knowledge including recent developments in accounting and auditing standards
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to work on multiple jobs at once
- Ability to work in a pressured environment
- Proactive nature and enjoys working as part of a team
- Although not a pre-requisite, it would be beneficial if you had:
- Driving licence and ability to travel to client premises
- Experience of consolidated accounts
- Experience of IFRS
Reward And Benefits
- A 35-hour working week with a hybrid working policy with the flexibility to work from home for up to three days per week (our core hours are 10-4)
- Excellent benefits including; contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave, Life Assurance cover, and great flexible benefits and family-friendly policies
- Eligibility for the firm’s Profit-Sharing Plan. Paid in December.
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About Us
Saffery LLP is an adviser to individuals and businesses across a range of sectors, providing market-leading accountancy, audit, business advisory, tax, and VAT services. Founded in 1855, we are the UK’s 15th largest accountancy firm.
When you work with us at Saffery, you work with people who know your name, not just a job title. We’re a place shaped by friendly, intelligent people who are individually excellent and collectively exceptional. We’re committed to our clients, but also to our greatest asset – our people.
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Equality, diversity, and inclusion is a top priority for us. With our ED&I strategy, Everyone Belongs, we are building on our positive work culture and implementing initiatives to improve diversity and strengthen our equitable culture of inclusion, led from the top.
We hope you will apply to us, whatever your background, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability, or neurodivergence, because individual differences equal collective strength. Built on values of excellence, integrity, enthusiasm, and collegiality, Saffery is where Potential meets Personal.
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