Audit Assistant Manager

haysmacintyre; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

haysmacintyre, an award-winning firm in London, seeks an Assistant Manager to enhance audit and advisory services for creative, media, and technology clients. The role requires managing small to medium audit assignments, while contributing to client relationships and business development. Qualified accountants with strong IFRS knowledge and communication skills are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Must have a strong knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP including FRS101/102.
• Experience in managing audits from planning to supervision.
• Ability to produce high-quality business style reports.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for statutory audit planning, completion, and attending client meetings.
• Manage overall service delivery to clients and supervise audit staff.
• Involve in business development activities and maintain strong client relationships.

Skills

Technical skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Presentation skills

Multitasking

Education

Qualified accountant

Understanding of IFRS and UK GAAP

Tools

Caseware

Job description

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haysmacintyre is an award winning firm of chartered accountants and tax advisors, with 39 partners and over 500 staff, providing advice to entrepreneurs, fast-growing and owner-managed businesses, charities and not for profit organisations across the UK and internationally.

We are looking to recruit a Assistant Manager to build upon a period of strong growth and support new audit and advisory clients. The key aspect of the role will be to work closely with Partners running a busy portfolio working with a range of Creative, Media and Technology (CMT) clients within our corporate sector. These will include a range of public and private businesses within the technology, digital media and creative industries. In this position you will have mixed responsibility with a key management role on small and medium sized audit assignments, as well as assisting on larger and more complex audits, where you will utilise and further develop your knowledge and skills as well as being involved in business development, marketing and PR, training, managing and appraising staff.

You will be expected to provide a range of audit and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large corporate entities including some international groups and a mixture of private and public businesses.

Roles and Responsibilities

Responsibilities below are generalised and are no way exhaustive:

• Audit: statutory audit, planning, completion, attend / lead client meetings etc.
• Being a key point of contact throughout the year
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with existing clients as well as prospective clients
• Accounts preparation
• Provision of general business advice to clients
• Managing the overall service delivery to clients
• Other special projects
• Client billing and job recoverability
• Managing the audit staff including having a responsibility for the coaching and development of the team members reporting directly into you taking responsibility for career development of others
• Business development activities such as building relationships with target clients or involvement in pitch situations
• Assist where required in the general running of the audit department
• Reporting directly to the partner and having several direct team members report to you.

The candidate

• Ambition to learn and develop
• The successful candidate will be able to multitask in terms of handling multiple clients simultaneously
• Excellent technical and personal skills to service a portfolio of clients efficiently and effectively
• Excellent communication skills and be confident, articulate and able to communicate at all levels externally and internally
• Ability to produce high quality business style reports for non-executive committees
• Presentation skills for tendering for new work
• A team player with the ability to prioritise work and work to tight deadlines
• Strong organisational skills
• Have a proven track record of establishing and maintaining strong relationships
• Ability to successfully support, nurture and motivate different team members

Work Experience in the CMT Sector

• Strong knowledge of both IFRS and UK GAAP (including FRS101/102) and international standards on auditing
• Confidence in understanding and completing the audit of businesses within the sector
• Working knowledge of Tax
• Experience of management of the audit from planning to supervision and onsite reviews
• Qualified accountant
• Experience of auditing international groups is useful but not required
• Expertise in producing group financial statements and consolidations is useful but not required
• Experience of Caseware or similar accounts production software is useful but not required

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles.

If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, please email