Audit Director

Benford; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Benford, London-based audit firm, invites a senior professional to lead audit engagements end to end and own the judgement calls that decide them. You will help shape the methodology and platform, sit with engineers to decide future platform features, and manage client relationships with the standard Benford audit experience in mind.

Full-time, on-site in London with competitive salary and equity. You will work with a team that combines auditors and engineers to modernise audit work.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with statutory audit experience; ready for director-level responsibility.
• Comfortable being accountable for the audit opinion and the underlying judgement.
• Interested in systems-driven work so time goes to judgement over administration.
• Curious about why the process works the way it does, not only how to follow it.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements from scoping through to the opinion, including exceptions.
• Maintain the quality bar for risk assessment and evidence evaluation.
• Define and influence the platform and methodology with engineers.
• Manage client relationships and uphold the Benford audit experience.

Skills

Statutory audit experience

Director-ready

Job description

You will lead audit engagements end to end at Benford and own the judgement calls that decide them. You will also shape how those engagements are run, because the methodology and the platform behind them are still being built.

Why Benford

Audit at the small and mid-market end has been abandoned while fees keep rising. The largest firms are stepping back, and every previous attempt to modernise the work aimed at the auditor's desk and left the firm itself untouched. Benford is vertically integrated instead: we hold the licence, we build the platform, and we employ the auditor who signs. We are a registered audit firm in Norway, live with clients today, with teams in London and Oslo.

The problem is hard because audit sits where judgement, context, data and methodology meet. Getting it right takes the best auditors and engineers working as one team, over years.

What you'll own

• Engagements from scoping through to the opinion, including the exceptions and the conversations that change an engagement.
• The quality bar: how risk is assessed, how evidence is judged sufficient, and how that reasoning is recorded.
• Methodology that becomes product. You will sit with engineers and decide what the platform should do next.
• Client relationships, and the standard for how a Benford audit feels to be on the receiving end of.

Who we're looking for

• A qualified accountant with statutory audit experience and a recent step up to director, or ready for one.
• Comfortable being accountable for the opinion and for the judgement behind it.
• Interested in working with routine work done by systems, so your time goes to judgement rather than administration.
• You are interested in why the process works the way it does, not only in following it.

Practical

Full-time, on-site in London. Competitive salary and equity.