Audit Senior Manager FTC (Maternity Cover)

Job Description:
The Client: A Top 10 accountancy firm are looking for a qualified audit and accounts senior manager to join their team in Surrey for a fixed term maternity cover contract. The client base ranges from small businesses and startups to substantial international groups. The client portfolio includes businesses from a variety of different industry sectors, across both private and AIM listed companies.
The role:
• Client Portfolio - ensure clients receive an efficient and proactive service and expectations are exceeded throughout the year. Liaison with client directors and other staff to ensure all are kept up to date with relevant issues.
• Audit work and setting budgets - awareness of commercial aspects of clients business and impact on the work. Arrangement of timetable, booking of staff, planning review and completion of audit and other related assignments.
• Department Administration - monitoring of qualified and student bookings and workloads to ensure most efficient use of resources. Liaison with junior staff to assess any issues that need dealing with.
• Business/Practise Development - preparation of proposals for new work, attendance at marketing events , development of personal contacts and identification and development of opportunities with current clients.
• Training and development - Ensuring assessment forms completed and feedback given to staff on all jobs. Ensuring appropriate in house and external training received personally.
• Billing.
Key Requirements:
• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA)
• Good working knowledge of account and auditing standards, industry specifics and their application.
• Good working knowledge of skill requirements of staff at various levels to ensure work undertaken by appropriate individual.
• Strong communication skills.
• Previous experience of management and motivation of staff to ensure best performance.
Candidates must have excellent planning and organisation skills as well as technical expertise to ensure audit conducted to correct standard and accounts preparation is accurate and meaningful for the type of industry. Strong commercial awareness is important as well as problem solving skills. Experience of audit and accounts preparation for the charity sector would be beneficial.