The Role
Lead audits for small-to-medium clients, manage and train audit teams, perform risk assessments, design and execute audit testing, draft and review financial statements and audit reports, liaise with tax, complete audit planning and completion deliverables, ensure timesheets and appraisals are completed, and deliver audit files with minimal manager review points.
Summary Generated by Built In
As part of the team in Godalming, you will be responsible for leading on audits of small to medium clients, working closely with managers and juniors to deliver audit work on time and within budget. Your portfolio will be a mix of client industries, offering you variety and longer term progression and career opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
- Training of audit semi seniors & Juniors
- Ability to perform risk assessments and identify key audit areas
- Proficiency in using advanced audit techniques such as substantive testing and analytical procedures
- Experience in drafting & reviewing financial statements inclusive of audit reports and communicating findings to audit supervisor / manager.
- Familiarity with industry-specific regulations and compliance requirements
- Prompt completion of timesheets by end of the week
- Complete staff appraisal for junior at end of the audit (within 1 week of receiving from Semi senior / junior)
- Prepare staff appraisal at end of the audit (within 2 weeks of booking finishing)
- Ensure all members of the audit team are entering timesheets on a regular basis + making sure any client related expenses have been claimed in good time.
Audit Testing
- Complete audit planning
- Reviewing work from junior team members and providing constructive review points
- Proficient in designing audit testing on all sections of the file
- Consideration of audit efficiency and testing
- Delivery of audit file in such condition that Supervisor/manager have minimal review points and there are no outstanding points.
- Communicating with the tax department on provisions and comps/returns
- Completion of the L section
- Drafting comprehensive audit highlights report summarising the audit, key points for manager partner
- Audit completion - complete
- Review forecasts including sensitivity analysis
- Challenging assumptions
- Comparing actual to previous forecasts
- Risk
- Reassessing from planning to completion
- Complete schedules of adjusted & unadjusted
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Qualified to ACA/ACCA or internationally recognised chartered accounting qualification
- Experience leading audits
- Technically competent
- High level of personal motivation
- Excellent communicator- able to get on with clients and your team
- Adaptable
- Initiative
- Ability to organise and good motivator and encourager of team
- Personable and confident – clients should feel confident of their ability to relate to them
- Ability to multi task and prioritise work – time management
- Ability to meet deadlines
Benefits
· Generous annual leave plus three days off at Christmas
· Option to buy/sell additional days
· Hybrid Working
· Life Cover
· Critical Illness cover
· Income Protection
· Pension Scheme
· Wellbeing support, including generous absence pay, access to Digicare+ and an Employee Assistance Programme
· Generous family related leave and pay
· Weddings and birth vouchers
· Loyalty awards
· Employee and client referral awards
· Community volunteer scheme
· Fundraising matching
· Perkbox
· Eye Tests
· Cycle to work
A wide range of flexible benefits, including interest free loans for:
· Health Assessments
· Dental
· Gym memberships
· Cancer screening
· Genetic wellness tests
· Phones, laptops, tablets and computers
· Wearables
· Office furniture
· Cycle insurance
· Pet insurance
· Will writing
About
At Moore Kingston Smith, we believe in the potential of people to make a positive impact, fuelled by the power of genuine understanding. Working with small, medium and large clients, we are a multi-disciplinary advisory, tax and audit firm with expertise across multiple sectors, uniquely positioned to help people realise their ambitions. Our London and regional teams deliver quality results locally and nationally, and worldwide alongside the Moore Global network. Through respect, collaboration and active listening, understanding is at the heart of everything we do with our clients, colleagues and communities. We value people and projects that promote positive change for the future. Come and join us to make a difference.
Skills Required
- Qualified to ACA/ACCA or internationally recognised chartered accounting qualification
- Experience leading audits of small to medium clients
- Ability to perform risk assessments and identify key audit areas
- Proficiency in substantive testing, analytical procedures and designing audit testing
- Experience drafting and reviewing financial statements and audit reports
- Experience reviewing junior work and providing constructive feedback
- Familiarity with industry-specific regulations and compliance requirements
- Strong communication, organisation, time management and team leadership skills
- Ability to complete timesheets and staff appraisals promptly
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Moore Kingston Smith is a multi-disciplinary advisory, tax, and audit firm with expertise across multiple sectors, uniquely positioned to help people realize their ambitions.
