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Audit Senior Manager - International Clients in a Top 10 firm - London

Your new company

Your new company is a Top 10 firm of Chartered Accountants who are looking for a Senior Manager to join their successful international audit team in central London. This firm offers the full range of business services such as audit, accounting, taxation, corporate finance and more to small and large companies across a wide variety of sectors. This firm continues to work on ensuring their staff are equipped with everything they need to achieve their potential while also being able to balance their work and life commitments.

Your new role

You will be working within the busy London audit team specialising in clients from various sectors that have an international presence, including international household names.
This office is the hub of the international sector within this Top 10 firm. International travel is also available in this role for those who desire it (6 to 8 weeks per year!). Duties and responsibilities will include (but not limited to):
  • Act as a major point of contact within the firm for the clients
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with clients at senior levels, being a principal point of contact throughout the year
  • Develop a strong commercial understanding of the clients’ businesses.
  • Identify and recognise business and sales opportunities with new clients and inform the Partner as appropriate.
  • Act as an ambassador of the firm, participates in office marketing events, keeps abreast of the wide range of service the firm offers.
  • Recruit, retain, develop and motivate our employees, which includes participating in graduate recruitment, ensuring job appraisal documentation is completed within deadlines and ensuring appropriate objectives and development plans are in place for counselees.
  • Complete assignments within agreed budgets and timescales and identify opportunities for additional billings.
  • Project management

What you'll need to succeed

To be successful, ideally, you will be:
  • ACCA/ACA/ICAS qualified or equivalent.
  • Significant experience of delivering audit and other assurance services to major audited entities, including audited entities with international interests.
  • Previous audit management experience in practice – proven experience in managing a wide portfolio of concurrent projects and project teams.
  • Experience of systems/controls testing as well as substantive auditing of complex financial statement areas, including consolidations, group audits, and review of statutory accounts and disclosures.
  • Project Management experience of large, complex engagements, or a large portfolio of smaller engagements, ideally with some cross-border elements.
  • Excellent working knowledge of UK and International GAAS, IFRS, UK GAAP and Financial Reporting requirements.
  • Managing and developing staff (not only audit teams), i.e. coordinating staff projects, mentoring, counselling, appraising, recruiting
  • Business development experience - able to evidence robust commercial and financial management of a portfolio of audited entities, as well as ability to identify and convert opportunities to sell work
  • Experience with listed audited entities
  • Experience auditing international groups and working with other worldwide offices.
    • Recent experience within a Chartered Accountancy firm in the UK
    • Exemplary communication skills

What you'll get in return

This firm offers a great benefits package including:
  • Competitive salary + cash allowance
  • 28 days’ holiday, with options of buying or selling holiday
  • Access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions;
  • Life assurance cover, including spousal/partner life assurance
  • Income protection insurance.
  • Add on private medical, dental insurance, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance;
  • Enrol in their Bike to Work scheme;
  • Enjoy discounts off cinemas, dining, and gyms;
  • Receive an interest-free season ticket loan or interest-free graduate loan;
  • Access to childcare vouchers;
  • Online health assessment and employee assistance programme

What you need to do now


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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