Audit Assistant Manager

SW Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy firm in Birmingham is seeking an Audit Assistant Manager to lead audit processes and manage client relationships. The role offers exciting opportunities for professional growth within a supportive team, committed to delivering high-quality audit work for dynamic businesses. Competitive salary and benefits include a hybrid working model and training for professional qualifications.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Pension contribution

Generous holiday package

Fully funded training towards professional qualifications

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Eye care support

Qualifications

• Demonstrable audit experience in professional services.
• Ability to organize self and manage multiple assignments.
• Experience supervising and delegating to junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Plan, perform, and complete audit processes.
• Discuss progress with clients, identify solutions.
• Train junior staff and manage audit team assessments.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Audit experience

Education

ACA/ACCA qualified or equivalent

Job description

Company Description

At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK's top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations.

Built on expertise and driven by ambition, we provide a comprehensive range of services, including tax and accountancy, advisory and assurance, corporate finance, and restructuring. We are defined by our purpose: to help navigate challenges, unlock potential, and achieve the extraordinary.

Job Description

We are seeking a talented individual to join our Audit team in our Birmingham office. You will be responsible for planning, performing, and completing the audit process for each assignment.

Why join S&W audit Birmingham?

We're proud of our highly successful audit department. We hold ourselves to high standards and work together to produce quality, incisive audit work in a collegiate environment. We're focused on working with an expanding client base of dynamic mid-market businesses who are evolving and changing, which gives our team continual development opportunities and new experiences.

As Audit Assistant Manager, some of your responsibilities will include:

• Regular discussions with the client to confirm progress, identify solutions to any hurdles, and ensure reasonable expectations are met.
• Identify and highlight any opportunities for S&W apparent from work undertaken.
• Assist and perform training of junior staff.
• Complete assessment forms of audit team.
• Perform work in accordance with S&W audit and assignment procedures.
• Prepare draft accounts/report and completion memo (including identification of control weaknesses or areas of improvement) for review by manager.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• ACA/ACCA qualified or equivalent
• Demonstrable audit experience gained within a professional services firm.
• Strong communication skills, both internally and directly with clients.
• Demonstrable experience of supervising others and delegation of work.
• Demonstrable ability to organise self and others, such that you can work on several different assignments at one time.

Additional Information

As a colleague here at S&W, you will have access to benefits that include:

• Competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working model (role dependent)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Shared parental leave
• Fully funded training towards professional qualifications
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Eye care support

We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, reflective of society and our clients. At S&W, we have active employee resource groups and are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. We aim to provide a workplace where all colleagues feel respected, safe, and supported to achieve their full potential.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments.