Audit and Advisory Manager

Hays PLC; Bolton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Audit and Advisory Manager to lead a dynamic team in Bolton. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to manage a diverse portfolio, including international businesses and fast-growing SMEs. You will play a key role in developing your team through coaching and support, while ensuring high-quality audit delivery. The firm values its workforce and offers a people-positive environment with ample career development opportunities. With a competitive salary and a healthy holiday package, this is a chance to thrive in a supportive culture focused on work-life balance and professional growth.

Benefits

Healthy holiday package (23 days + bank holidays)

Access to market leading training schemes

Flexible work-life balance

People positive environment

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in audit teams within practice, ideally in OMB space.
• Strong commitment to professional excellence and client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team ensuring timely delivery of audit and advisory services.
• Provide coaching, support, and technical training to team members.

Skills

Chartered Accountant (ACA / ACCA)

Interpersonal Skills

Coaching Skills

Analytical Review Skills

Education

ACA / ACCA Qualification

Job description

Audit and Advisory Manager job role for a Top 50 regional accountancy firm.

Your new firm

This market leading audit and advisory firm, with a large regional presence across the Northwest is seeking to appoint a new Audit and Advisory Manager (ACA / ACCA qualified) into their new Bolton office. This job opportunity has arisen following an extended period of growth within their fee line within the last two years, presenting an excellent opportunity for you to manage a great team of trainees which grows each year. Overall, this is a fantastic opportunity for an aspiring or recently qualified manager to join a firm that truly values its workforce and can offer rounded career development.

Your new role

As an Audit and Advisory manager, you will manage a team for which you'll be responsible for ensuring timely and quality delivery of audit and advisory services to your portfolio. Your portfolio will be complex, varied and challenging with exposure to groups, international businesses, fast growing SMEs and property clients. You will be responsible for managing multiple audit assignments, ensuring the team is delivering the work on schedule, providing on the job coaching and support, providing technical support and training to the team, reviewing audit files and delivering the audit close meeting. Your role as a manager will be crucial to the development of your team as you will take the lead in the coaching of juniors, reviewing and supporting their audit work and upskilling your audit seniors. Alongside carrying out this high-quality audit work, you will receive continuous support throughout your role, reporting into senior managers and the supportive partner team surrounding your progress and audit work.

What you'll need to succeed

This firm is seeking a professional Chartered Accountant (ACA / ACCA) with extensive experience working in an audit team within a practice carrying out high-quality audit work, ideally in the OMB space. You will have operated in an audit assistant manager capacity or higher post qualification and have gained exposure to reviewing audit files. The organisation is looking for an individual with excellent interpersonal and coaching skills with a strong commitment to providing professional excellence to help you to build strong client relationships, as well as good analytical review skills. The ideal candidate will be willing to learn and expand upon their own skills as an audit professional and the firm will consider both an aspiring manager and recently promoted manager.

What you'll get in return

This Bolton based audit manager job role is an excellent opportunity to join a Top 50 accountancy firm that will give you exposure to a fantastic portfolio of clients whilst working in a people positive environment with an excellent culture. You will also have the opportunity to get involved in all aspects of your clients' journey working directly with growing entrepreneurial clients, ensuring you become a true business advisor. The organisation will offer you a competitive salary that is reflective of your experience and qualifications which includes a healthy holiday package of 23 days + bank holidays. Additionally, the package offers access to market leading training schemes and an array of internal benefits, which focus on flexibility, prioritising your work life balance.

What you need to do now

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