CLR Audit Assistant Manager

Job details

Location: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Leeds, Leeds Broadgate, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Reading, Sheffield, South Coast, Watford

Capability: Audit

Experience Level: Associate/Assistant Manager

Type: Full Time

Service Line: CLR Audit

Contract type: Permanent

Job description

Grade: Assistant Manager (D Grade)

Job Title: Audit Assistant Manager

Team: CLR

Locations: Various

Capability: Audit

Contract Type: Permanent

Summary of the Role Proposed:

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Manager to join our Corporates Listed and Regulated Audit team.

As an Assistant Manager, you will be responsible for the day-to-day high-quality delivery of audit engagements from planning through to completion.

Alongside audit delivery work, you will also supervise junior team members, and provide coaching and development to help them reach their full potential. This will include planning and reviewing their work to ensure the work quality is to a high standard.

You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of stakeholder relationships at audited entities and can expect to work with senior level staff.

You will work closely with the Audit Manager, Senior Manager, Director and Partner, ensuring that they are kept up to date with progress, involving them on a timely basis in all phases of the audit and when issues arise.

Description of the Role:

• Conducting the planning and execution of audit fieldwork.
• Supervising and coaching junior members of staff to help them realise their full potential.
• Reviewing the audit work performed by junior team members.
• Project managing the audit delivery, including timelines, team briefings, team supervision, delivery of audit work, and reviews by more senior team members, including Directors and Partners.
• Keeping Managers, Senior Managers, Directors and Partners up to date with progress throughout the course of the assignment.
• Preparing reports to senior management from audited entities and audit committees.
• Building relationships with the engagement and audited entity staff.
• Being the day-to-day point of contact for the audited entity.

Role Dimensions:

Technical core competencies required for the role

Our Global Audit & Assurance Technical core competencies provide clarity and consistency of expectations to ensure the minimum audit technical requirements are being met by relevant grades to drive Audit Quality, which is fundamental to achieving our ambition to become the most trusted and trustworthy firm. The relevant competencies for this role are:

• Technical knowledge: Understands relevant technical accounting and financial reporting standards, regulations and accounting literature. Exhibits and stays current on appropriate industry and specialised knowledge, and leverages KPMG methodologies (including ESG Assurance, where relevant). `
• Risk assessment: Prepares for the audit execution design with a focus on risk assessment
• Controls testing: Tests and evaluates internal controls to assess impact on engagement.
• Substantive procedures: Executes substantive audit procedures, gathering evidence and forming conclusions that contribute to audit objectives.
• Evaluation of audit results: Evaluates evidence from audit procedures to determine if audit objectives were achieved.
• Documentation: Completes audit documentation demonstrating an unwavering focus on audit quality.

People & Culture

• Embrace and embed our culture ambition of high challenge, high support which is grounded in Our Values.
• Operate with a curious and sceptical mindset ensuring that this is embedded in your everyday work.
• Actively lead and embed a coaching culture to get the best out of others in an environment where everyone in the team feels empowered to speak up or challenge where appropriate.
• Be accountable, professional and act in the public interest, working for the benefit of shareholders of audited entities and wider society.
• Be inclusive and embrace the opportunity to work with other teams within Audit and across the firm in an integrated way. Have a sense of community, purpose and fun.

The Person:

Experience and Knowledge Requirements

• Significant Audit experience within a ‘Big 4’ consultancy or mid-tier firm. (E)
• Sound working knowledge of International Standards on Auditing. (E)
• Sound working knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP. (E)
• Sound working knowledge of USGAAP and SOx (D)
• Experience of using proprietary software to manage the audit work flow and document audit evidence (E)
• Experience of managing small teams, coaching and mentoring junior staff. (E)
• IT literate with sound knowledge and experience of MS Office Tools (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). (E)

Behavioural Attributes and Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to communicate complex matters in a clear and compelling manner.
• Strong organisational and time management skills; able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with conflicting priorities and deadlines.
• Highly effective stakeholder management and relationship building skills; credible and confident with stakeholders at all levels.
• Self-driven and resilient; able to thrive in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail; able to analyse and interpret complex technical information.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification from a recognised accountancy body. (E)

E – Essential, D – Desirable

KPMG Overview:

KPMG in the UK is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Legal, Tax and Advisory services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity, insight, and experience to solve our clients’ and communities’ biggest problems. We’ve been doing this for more than 150 years.

We aim to be universally recognised as a place for great people to do their best work. A firm known for our collaborative and inclusive culture, using technology to empower and equip our people to deliver outstanding work with real flexibility – through inspiring workspaces, innovative ways to collaborate and hybrid ways of working.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our mission is simple: To support the UK in a connected world. It guides everything we do, underpinned by our values: Courage, Integrity, Excellence, Together and For Better.

Why Audit at KPMG?

Audit is the largest of our UK practices. Some of the world’s biggest companies rely on us to provide independent insight, challenge and expertise, so the work we undertake affects investment decisions, inspires confidence in public sector expenditure and supports our economic growth. Today, more than ever in disruptive times, audit is a function needed by society, and in the future, so we can capitalise, and grow. As part of the Audit team, you’ll be helping to build the confidence and trust that business and society need to thrive. We want to lead the conversation when it comes to shaping the future of the profession. And given the scale and variety of our audit engagements in both the UK and globally, we are well placed to create change. If you share our commitment to achieving excellence and working to the highest audit standards, are a natural collaborator who values different perspectives and relishes the opportunity to develop and progress - then KPMG could be the place where you can thrive.