Audit Manager

S&W; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an experienced Audit Manager to join their Southampton team. In this pivotal role, you will oversee client engagements, ensuring exceptional service and high-quality audits. Your expertise in external audit and accounting standards will be crucial as you guide teams and manage client relationships. This position offers the opportunity to lead a talented group while contributing to business development activities. Join a forward-thinking firm that values diversity and provides a supportive environment for professional growth.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Pension Contribution

Generous Holiday Package

Fully Funded Training

Cycle to Work Scheme

Season Ticket Loan

Option to Purchase Additional Holiday

Shared Parental Leave

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with significant external audit experience.
• Strong communication skills to liaise with clients and staff.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of clients and ensure high-quality audits.
• Monitor and guide quality at the engagement level.

Skills

External Audit Experience

Business Development

Accounting Standards Knowledge

Communication Skills

People Management

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACA, CA, ACCA)

Job description

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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.

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

What will you be doing ?

We are seeking an experienced Audit Manager to join our Southampton Audit team. In your role you will be responsible for a portfolio of clients, including managing the relationship between the client and the engagement team. Your focus is on engagement management and supervising others to deliver excellent client service and a high-quality audit. If required, you will also assist with management of the team, department and potentially the wider firm. Where appropriate, you may become involved in non-audit assignments on an ad hoc basis.

As an Audit Manager, your responsibilities will include among others

• Monitoring and guiding quality and managing risk at the engagement level, whilst focusing on high-quality service
• Ensuring client expectations are exceeded by connecting the right team members to key client contacts
• Contributing to effective management of resources across the department, monitoring workload and communicating openly
• Monitoring status of audit engagements, proactively communicating status and audit findings to clients and engagement Partners
• Taking responsibility for the performance appraisal processes, coaching and presenting as required
• Managing fees and billing across the portfolio, regularly forecasting cost to complete with margining impact and effectively negotiating overruns if necessary
  
  

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should possess:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, CA, ACCA or other international qualification) with significant external audit experience gained within professional services environment
• Experience of (and appetite for) business development activities such as targeting, preparation of proposal documents, proposal presentations and attendance of networking events
• Demonstrable working knowledge of accounting and auditing standards (FRS 102 and IFRS), industry specifics and their application.
• Strong communication skills in order to liaise with clients, Partners, staff and other professionals.
• Previous experience of people management and motivation of staff to ensure best performance through effective communication
  
  

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 are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At S&W we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workplace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Accounting

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