Audit Executive - London

Mha Plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

MHA is seeking an Audit Executive in London to lead and deliver critical audit assignments across multiple sectors. The role requires coordinating junior staff, ensuring timelines and budgets are met, and maintaining high-quality audit work under supervision of Partners and Directors.

The successful candidate will have ACA/ACCA and at least 3 years of auditing experience, with strong planning, communication, and technical accounting knowledge. Financial services exposure is a plus.

Qualifications

• ACA or ACCA qualified with practice experience.
• Minimum 3 years auditing experience.
• Experience in Financial Services sector preferred.
• Strong planning and time-management skills.
• Proficient with Sage, Excel, Word and CaseWare.
• Experience supervising/mentoring junior staff.
• Solid up-to-date technical accounting knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and lead a large number of audits across sectors within deadlines.
• Allocate sections to junior staff and brief on expectations.
• Respond to queries from junior staff during audits.
• Complete audits in line with firm procedures with support from seniors.
• Monitor progress, budgets and timelines to ensure audits stay within budget.
• Review junior work on-site and in office; finalize sections for partner review.
• Ensure hours are recorded accurately to reflect profitability.
• Perform tax item analyses and finalize files for review.

Skills

Auditing experience

Team supervision

Planning skills

Mentoring juniors

Communication skills

Financial services experience

Technical accounting knowledge

Education

ACA or ACCA

Tools

Sage

Excel

Word

CaseWare

Job description

Job Title – Audit Executive

Office – London

Who we are

As a Top 11 firm of chartered accountants, tax and business advisers, we work in partnership with clients ranging from entrepreneurs and individuals to multi-national corporations. We work together to navigate an ever-changing business world and proactively identify the opportunities that tomorrow presents.

Leveraging our national network of offices, we offer a comprehensive range of financial and business strategy services to clients across the UK, enabling them to achieve profitable growth and build sustainable long-term success.

As a member of Baker Tilly International, we have a global reach that allows us to offer our insight and expertise wherever our clients need us to be. We believe this makes us a national and international partner of choice for entrepreneurs and multi-national enterprises across the world.

Our agile and responsive approach means we are always on hand to have the right conversations about with clients at the right time, allowing us to identify their goals and business needs both now, and in the future.

Purpose of the role

Deliver/lead a large number of audits, across various sectors, ensuring deadlines are met and compliant with necessary regulations. Completing the job before passing to the Manager/Partner for review.

Main Responsibilities

• Produce a detailed audit planning memorandum, including details of any potential difficulties that may have been encountered during previous audits and ensure correct tests are applied to produce sufficient audit evidence, discuss with Partner/Director/Senior Manager/Manager.
• Allocate sections to junior staff and brief on what is expected of them.
• Answer queries from juniors throughout the audit.
• Complete audits in accordance with MHA audit procedures, with assistance from more senior members of staff where required.
• Monitor the progress of jobs, ensure that budgets are met, address any problems that are encountered to ensure that the audit is finished within budget and timeframe.
• Check and supervise the work of more junior staff both on site and in office and complete any sections as necessary.
• Ensure all hours worked on any client are recorded correctly, enabling a true reflection of the profitability of the job to be shown.
• Complete analysis of items for tax.
• Sign off audit sections, address any problems and/or queries and complete the file before passing it on to the Partner/Director/Senior Manager/Manager for review.
• Completion of a job – tasks would include:

Completion of a job – tasks would include

• filling in required documentation
• preparation of Key Issues Memorandum including commentary on accounts
• summary of outstanding points to managers
• final analytical review
• cast accounts, check referencing
• ensure lead schedules agree to accounts
• pass file to Manager for review
• clear all review points
• make any amendments necessary

• Draft letters to clients in relation to the audit/accounts.

Qualifications and Skills

• ACA or ACCA, fully qualified with practice experience
• 3 years + Auditing experience.
• Ideally, experience within the Financial Services space or have an interest in doing work in this sector.
• Competent planning and completion skills.
• Computer experience – Sage, Excel, Word and ideally CaseWare (accounts and audit) and tax software.
• Previous experience of supervising/mentoring junior members of staff.
• Good up-to-date technical knowledge including recent developments in accounting standards.
• Communication – oral and written, ability to deal with variety of people in differen