Saffery
Audit Senior Associate
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Qualified Senior Associate
Our Edinburgh office are looking for an experienced, professional and enthusiastic Qualified Senior Associate, to join our audit team. Applicants must be either CA or ACCA qualified and be able to display a commercially minded and organised approach to client work.
You will become a key part of a growing team, which provides a wide range of audit, advisory and accounting services to a huge range of diverse clients including but not limited to landed estates, charities, owner-managed businesses and FCA regulated entities.
Our Audit Senior Associates
- Project manage and drive forwards the audit and accounting process, including liaising directly with senior individuals in clients’ finance teams.
- Get actively involved in every aspect of the audit process, taking ownership of planning, fieldwork, and the completion on audit engagements, working closely with managers and partners.
- Have the opportunity to get involved in the direction and overall running of the team. There may also be opportunities to work on ad hoc projects e.g, department or firmwide working groups and client advisory work.
Our Audit Senior Associates are often given the opportunity to manage a small portfolio of jobs, which helps you to develop the next stage of your career progression. With exciting growth plans in the team, we have a successful framework in place where you will be supported and encouraged throughout your time with us, to allow ample opportunity for further development.
We will also consider applications from candidates that are due to fully qualify in the next few months.
The Team
Our Edinburgh team provide tailor made services, including accounting, audit and assurance, tax, corporate finance and business advisory, for all aspects of our clients’ lives. We advise on both their personal and business affairs, as well as assisting at all phases of wealth generation, preservation and succession.
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Our Edinburgh office is home to 6 partners and over 70 staff. Our modern, purpose-built office space in Haymarket Square is within walking distance of the city centre with easy access to bus, tram and national rail services.
You
The successful candidate will be expected to have responsibility for leading a range of audits. You will be responsible for supervising and coaching the work of more junior staff and liaising with tax staff, partners and clients. The role will provide a good range of work for someone with solid technical skills and a background of audit work, wishing to build on their experience in a fast-growing office that will provide opportunities for progression.
Qualifications And Skills
- CA or ACCA qualified.
- Strong audit experience, including planning and completion.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Client-focused with a keen sense of commerciality.
- Up-to-date technical knowledge, including recent developments in accounting and auditing standards.
- Demonstrating experience of managing, training and mentoring staff on projects, and assessing performance.
- Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and pressured environment.
- Proactive nature and a strong team player
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.
As a proud member of Nexia, a leading, international network of independent accounting and consulting firms, we’ve got access to local insight on a global scale.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
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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