Assurance - Audit Senior Manager - Edinburgh-Glasgow

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services firm is seeking a Senior Manager in Assurance for its Edinburgh-Glasgow office. This role involves leading major audit engagements, managing client relationships, and steering multi-disciplinary teams to success. The ideal candidate has significant experience with FTSE 100 clients and holds a relevant chartered accountant qualification. EY offers a flexible working environment to foster both professional growth and personal priorities.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Commitment to inclusivity

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with FTSE 100 audit engagements in a senior managerial capacity.
• Fully qualified as a chartered accountant.
• Proven industry knowledge in sectors like Oil & Gas, Energy, Retail.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements following firm methodologies and standards.
• Build and nurture business relationships.
• Manage multi-disciplinary teams effectively.

Skills

Experience planning, leading, and delivering major audit engagements

Chartered accountant qualification

Excellent technical expertise

Project and people management experience

Education

Chartered accountant (ACA / ACCA / CA / ICAS / ICAEW)

Job description

Assurance - Audit Senior Manager - Edinburgh-Glasgow

Location: Glasgow

Other locations: Anywhere in Country

Date: 31 Oct 2025

Requisition ID: 1656697

At EY, we’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

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.

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 to the client by providing knowledge, ideas, and solutions for improving their business, assessing legal implications
• Successfully and proactively managing multi-disciplinary teams, resolving any challenges, and ensuring the 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.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Experience planning, leading, and delivering multiple major external audit and assurance engagements (e.g. FTSE 100) in a senior managerial capacity
• Fully qualified as a chartered accountant e.g. 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

*Please note that evidence of qualification status will be requested pre-interview. We kindly request that applicants upload a copy of their 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.

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.

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Please note Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. We ask because it matters!

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