Internal Audit Assistant Manager

Job Description

Azets is a leading firm of Accountants and Business Advisers operating across the UK, Ireland and the Nordics. We have a wide network of employees and an abundance of inspiring opportunities to join one of our many offices!

We are a top-ten accountancy firm in the UK and the largest SME practice.

Client Focus:

• Delivers audit work professionally and exhibits demonstrable knowledge of GIAS
• Ensures clients are kept informed of audit progress and any issues arising.
• Is able to respond to client queries relating to role with minimal input from others.
• Demonstrates a clear understanding of clients’ business, objectives, challenges and risks sufficient to brief more junior colleagues on assignment and direct work accordingly.
• Demonstrates a broad understanding of client/customer market and environment and understands the importance of driving new business.
• Manages flexible working of self and assistants based around client needs and business deadlines.
• Gain experience of winning new work through input into the preparation of proposals, fee quotes and attending client tenders.
• Attends Audit Committee/client meetings with support from Manager/ Director/Partner but is confident in leading discussions / inspiring confidence in client-side contacts.

Technical Excellence:

• Committed to developing knowledge in specialist area and actively communicates/feeds back salient areas to team members.
• Delivers departmental training and development initiatives, as aligned with team development needs/feedback from clients and Managers/Partners/Directors.
• Maintains up to date technical knowledge and awareness of wider business advisory opportunities through technical reading and attending in-house departmental seminars, to identify potential issues and emerging opportunities in own and other service areas of the business.

Commitment:

• Identifies skills and knowledge gaps in department and actively makes suggestions to resolve.
• Takes responsibility for actioning departmental development initiatives.
• Demonstrates real enthusiasm and motivation at work and engages in team/corporate activities beyond core role.
• Identifies, agrees, and delivers personally challenging objectives.

Attention to Detail

• Demonstrates ability to deliver multiple ongoing assignments without compromising on quality or timescales, giving appropriate and constructive feedback to the team throughout.
• Takes the lead in ensuring output of wider team is of the highest quality and presentation through providing appropriate feedback and training.

Decision Making:

• Demonstrates a commitment to developing team members by assigning challenging work, ensuring to give support where appropriate and necessary.
• Empowers team members to think independently.
• Can make rational and informed decisions even if they may appear unpopular.
• Is able to process constructive feedback and take ownership of their mistakes and performance.

Efficiency:

• Challenges existing approaches and offers alternative suggestions to deliver work more efficiently without compromising the quality of output.
• Champions modern technologies aimed at improving quality and efficiency and takes the lead in departmental implementation of them.

Living Our Values:

• Consistently ‘lives our values’ – demonstrates expected behaviours in line with our company values

Technical skills:

• Builds personal profile both within the firm and externally.
• Contributes to tenders/develops and executes own BD plan.
• Identifies opportunities to deliver work more efficiently through e.g. delegation of tasks to Seniors, whilst still retaining responsibility for quality of outputs.

Essential experience:

• Professional accountancy qualification and/or Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) qualification.
• Experienced in delivering audit reviews and producing high-quality client outputs.
• Strong understanding of risk and controls.
• Working knowledge of Global Internal Audit Standards and their application
• Proven track record of building and maintaining client relationships.
• Experience in coaching and management of junior staff at all stages of the audit process.

What’s in it for you?

Our benefits include hybrid & flexible working, birthday leave, professional subscription and much more. You can find out more about how we reward our colleagues – Careers Rewards And Benefits Azets UK

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