Assurance - Audit Senior Manager - Edinburgh-Glasgow

EY; Glasgow, City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational professional services firm is seeking an experienced Audit Senior Manager to oversee high-quality audit services in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The role involves leading audit engagements, managing client relationships, and coaching junior staff. Qualified chartered accountants with extensive audit experience and exceptional communication skills are encouraged to apply. The position offers competitive salary, benefits, and a flexible working environment, allowing professionals to balance work and personal life.

Benefits

Continuous learning opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

Competitive salary and benefits

Qualifications

• Experience leading several major external audit engagements.
• Fully qualified chartered accountant.
• Strong technical accounting skills in various industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead audit engagements ensuring compliance with standards.
• Build business relationships and provide client advice.
• Manage audit teams and deliver client services efficiently.

Skills

External audit experience

Project management

Team leadership

Technical accounting expertise

Communication skills

Education

Chartered Accountant qualification (ACA/ACCA/CA/ICAS/ICAEW)

Job description

Overview

Assurance - Audit Senior Manager - Edinburgh-Glasgow

Location: Edinburgh, GB; Glasgow, GB. Salary: Competitive. Closing date: 30 Dec 2025.

Join EY and help to build a better working world. At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Our UK and Ireland (UKI) Assurance team is fully integrated, working across borders to help clients deal with issues that are critical to their success, and winning new business as a result. From small businesses to some of the world's best-known brands, our clients count on reliable financial statements, information, and processes to inform their ongoing strategies.

Our opportunity is to provide independent verification of our clients' compliance with accounting principles, helping businesses accurately reflect their financial picture and improve their operations. EY offers leading-class learning and development tailored to your interests and motivations.

We are expanding our Audit teams across the UK with vacancies in: Edinburgh; Glasgow.

Your key responsibilities

• Effectively leading engagements in accordance with the firm's methodologies and guidance, professional standards, and local legal and regulatory requirements
• Building and nurturing new business relationships, engaging clients, and providing authoritative advice and professionalism throughout transactions
• Understanding our clients' unique ambitions and needs, delivering value by providing knowledge, ideas, and solutions for improving their business, assessing legal implications
• Successfully and proactively managing multi-disciplinary teams, resolving challenges, and ensuring smooth delivery of team operations, client audits and services
• Performance management and coaching of junior colleagues throughout the performance year
• Identifying and acting upon staff needs, including resourcing, learning and development
• Constantly refreshing your understanding of current market trends

Skills and attributes for success

Colleagues and clients from a diverse array of backgrounds will look to you first for answers, so you'll be a high-profile contact and point of escalation when it comes to resolving complex issues. As you build your knowledge and experience, you'll become a credible advisor, influencing clients and engagement teams on resolutions that will impact entire industries. You'll also be introduced to career challenges that will take you into exciting new professional territory.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Experience planning, leading, and delivering multiple major external audit and assurance engagements (FTSE 100) in a senior managerial capacity
• Fully qualified as a chartered accountant ACA / ACCA / CA / ICAS / ICAEW or international equivalent
• Excellent technical expertise with proven industry knowledge and sector experience in one or more of the following: Oil & Gas; Energy; Power & Utilities; Retail; Transportation; Aviation; Supply Chain & Logistics; Consumer Goods
• Project and people management experience
• Evidence of qualification status will be requested pre-interview. Please upload a copy of your qualification certificate at the point of application.

Ideally, you\'ll also have

• Previous professional experience at Senior Manager level, or equivalent
• Knowledge of current market issues in the UK
• Experience using SOX 404 and applying UK GAAP and IFRS
• Expertise using GAM to perform an assurance engagement in compliance with auditing standards
• An application and solution-based approach to problem solving and a collaborative approach to management
• The flexibility to constantly learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

What we look for

We\'re interested in professionals with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so we look for people who will take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you\'re serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients\' most complex issues, this role is for you.

What working at EY offers

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer :

• Continuous learning: You\'ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We\'ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We\'ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You\'ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. Shape your future with confidence!

Apply now.

Important: Prior to finalizing your application, you may be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information provided is confidential and will not be used to evaluate candidacy. We collect this data to help analyse our recruitment process and promote diversity and inclusiveness. Providing this information is optional but encouraged to help us build a better working world.

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