Role & Responsibilities:
* Assisting and advising the client service management team on the formulation of audit strategy and planning.
* Technical expert for audit assignments, providing advice to audit team and client.
* Leading an audit team, ensuring the team complete in a timely manner within budget.
* Managing audit assignments from planning through to finalisation of reports in line with agreed timescales.
* Controlling time spent and monitoring actual time within budget.
* People management - coaching, feedback, performance management, training and development, engaging high performing teams.
* Maintains control and stability under pressure whilst recognising the deadline or urgency.
* Ensure standards and procedures maintained by whole team.
* Drafts the audit opinion summary for the Partner and any other reporting documents, including group reporting and audit committee papers.
* Ensuring clients are billed according to agreed billing plans.
* Identifying and capitalising on opportunities and prospects for new work.
* Business development, including working with colleagues in other teams.
* Acts as a point of contact for both senior management and client.
* Building strong working relationships with clients.
* Show vision and strategic perspective.
* Delivering confident and clear presentations of service features and benefits to clients.
* Ensures audit services provided are genuinely appropriate for the client.
* Assesses and produces high quality work in line with the Firm's policy and processes, meeting relevant regulatory requirements.
Sharp Consultancy is a finance and accountancy recruitment specialist assisting accounting and finance divisions of businesses in the Yorkshire and Derbyshire area. With over 25 years' experience we pride ourselves on sourcing excellent finance professionals across all divisions of an accounts function, from finance administrators through to senior Finance Director appointments. Please visit our website www.sharpconsultancy.com for more information on accountancy jobs or accountancy recruitment; finance jobs or finance recruitment.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK full time without restriction. To apply please send your CV to the e-mail address stated, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore if we have not responded to your application within seven days please note that on this occasion your application has not been successful.
