The Position
The main responsibilities of a Senior Auditor will be supporting the Audit Manager to achieve strategic and operational delivery of a challenging audit agenda to clientele. You will drive and deliver compliance activity. You will take autonomy to help ensure you have a robust audit sub team who have all the skills needed whilst working collaboratively with other stakeholders to deliver an excellent standard of projects, whilst providing constructive feedback to facilitate the department’s growth.
As one of the audit team, you will nurture relationships with a diverse client portfolio. You will take ownership of your workload and distribute accordingly, ensuring all your work meets the correct requirements before final sign off.
An outline of the job and what it will entail is stated below:
- To assist to ensure assignments are conducted in accordance with Dunkleys’ procedures.
- To assist to ensure all assignments are performed at the appropriate time and both internal and external deadlines are met.
- Be responsible for completion and submission of assignments and returns for all clients within their portfolio by internal and external deadlines.
- To set out a job plan to complete these assignments with a view to making the task as straight forward and efficient as possible.
- To brief Sub team / Job Managers, Assistants / Seniors appropriately at the start of an assignment ensuring the job plan and budget are clearly understood.
- To oversee and provide technical support to Sub team / Job Managers, Assistants / Seniors.
- Help to maintain a comprehensive and up to date list of audit clients.
- Maintain a calendar of jobs and plan for interim audit work to spread workload.
- Use of planning board.
- Ensure GPM is being used for tracking audit progress.
- Interaction with CPs where audits are not on the audit manager’s list.
- Assist with marketing/networking for growth of the department.
Team Development
- Sharing knowledge with the sub team to enable the audit department to complete all types of audits.
- Assist with performance management.
- Assist with PDRs for the audit team.
- Provide adequate review and feedback.
- Use of tax team/payroll team for relevant sections.
- Ensure the defining and the agreement of formal objectives for all direct reports.
- Provide regular feedback to all team members on their performance via 1 to 1s.
Internal Financial Management & Business Planning
- To understand and work proactively towards achieving own contribution to the departmental business plan.
- To monitor and actively manage workflow, work in progress and debt collection. (As and when instructed by our finance team) for portfolio of clients.
New Business Development
- To form good professional relationships with clients, creating an environment whereby clients feel happy to refer their contacts to .
- To actively endeavour to make non clients aware of the services and benefits that can provide.
Qualifications
- Working towards ACCA/ACA
- Experience of FRS and charity SORP is desirable.
Further Responsibilities
- Proper evidence of timely review of files.
- Monitoring planning and file sign offs.
- Booking managers time to sign off projects.
- High level of client contacts and onsite attendance.
- Agreement of timings and meeting deadlines.
- Regular Feedback of Audit findings.
Dunkley’s is committed to providing a supportive and collaborative work environment where employees can thrive and grow professionally. Join our team now and make meaningful impact in the financial success of our clients!
Benefits
- Flexitime
- Free Parking
- Weekly Fresh Fruit
- Socials
- Quarterly Pizza Delivery for all our staff
- Employee Assistant Programme
- Paid Overtime
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- 20 Days holidays + Bank Holidays
- Extra Christmas Holiday Day ( Dunkleys Day )
- EV Scheme