Semi Senior Auditor
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Our Semi-Seniors are the bridging role between Assistant and Senior. The expectation is that Semi-Seniors develop the skills required to lead low to medium risk audits from start to finish, preparing a consistently high level of work and providing the client with a good standard of care. The Semi-Senior will be expected to take a leading role in providing training to the Assistant(s) assigned to them.
Key Accountabilities
Statutory Accounts
- Preparation of statutory financial statements from trial balance or prime records
- Preparation of accompanying working papers, including lead schedules, supporting reconciliations and checklists
- For internal and external use (by auditors/client themselves)
Audit
- Lead audits from planning to completion, liaising with the client to ensure an efficient audit process
- Plan audit for manager review
- Complete fieldwork for manager review
- Prepare finalisation for manager review
- Complete a final analytical review detailing how each of the risks identified at planning stage has been addressed
- Prepare an audit summary memorandum detailing the key areas of the audit and any points to note for future reference
- Prepare finalisation documents to send to the client (i.e. letters of representation, profit reconciliation etc.)
- Ensure the audit meets the relevant internal and external deadlines, maintaining calendar synchronisation between managers, the RI and the client.
- Keep managers / RI and client up to date on timings and raise any issues in a timely manner
- Visit clients’ premises to complete audit fieldwork when required, including stock take attendances
- Use available resources to research and investigate challenging audit areas
- Present issues or information to the manager / RI in an appropriate way
General
- Communicate clearly with the team, encouraging key skills such as prioritising, planning and delegation.
- Maintain a strong awareness of ongoing client assignments and outstanding work
- Assist in the training of junior/new members of staff
- Contribute to weekly meetings, offering assistance to all members of staff should it be required
- Liaise with other departments to ensure efficient work and good customer service
- Develop a strong technical knowledge by attending technical training courses and webinars, ensuring up to date knowledge and relaying this back to the team where necessary
- General administrative duties
Knowledge & Experience
The ideal candidate will be in partway through their studies towards an appropriate accounting qualification e,g, ACA or ACCA. They will have a reasonable understanding of the audit cycle, having worked on small to medium risk audits from planning to completion. Knowledge or experience of CaseWare will be useful but not essential.
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