Audit Quality Review Senior Manager -Leading Audit Firm – London/Agile Working

Our client is looking for a Senior Manager to work within its specialist audit quality review team. This team provides practical support to help audit teams consistently deliver high quality audits.

As a senior manager you will help their audit teams deliver high quality audits by performing targeted reviews on their public interest entities , providing coaching and support to address areas identified for improvement.

Responsibilities

• Perform ‘live’ reviews of audits at every stage from planning through to completion and reporting, identifying ways to improve audit quality
• Determine areas of focus for reviews, liaising with the Director to agree approach
• Proactively discuss audit quality matters with teams and help develop strategies to deliver high audit quality audits
• Challenge the execution of audit procedures and documentation of audit work performed
• Support and coach teams to implement identified improvements in audit quality
• Identify issues and matters where firm-wide action may be required, in conjunction with the Director.
• Contribute to the development of training and guidance on performing high quality audits
• Provide clear and practical solutions to ad hoc audit quality queries

Requirements

Essential skills:

• Excellent practical and technical auditing experience particularly on more complex audits  
• Good working knowledge of IFRS 
• Ability and willingness to assertively challenge and influence more senior individuals and peers
• Ability to think innovatively and creatively to identify ways to improve audit quality
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Desirable skills:

• Experience of performing audit quality reviews (pre or post audit opinion)

Personal qualities:

• An ability and desire to work with a client base across a broad range of sectors
• Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to create productive relationships across the firm and network and to influence other senior professionals
• Highly motivated and passionate about audit quality with a desire to seek new ways to drive improvements
• A willingness to work flexibly both as part of a close-knit team and as a self-directed individual

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