Audit Quality Director

RSM; Crawley; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading firm is seeking a management professional to join their audit quality department. The role offers the chance to shape initiatives aimed at enhancing audit quality and involves collaboration with multiple stakeholders. Responsibilities include managing quality champions, regulatory liaison, and performing root cause analysis to support quality strategy.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing quality initiatives.
• Ability to collaborate across various teams.
• Strong analytical and strategic planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage Audit Quality Champions to ensure delivery of quality strategy.
• Liaise with regulatory bodies for file reviews.
• Conduct root cause analysis and develop action plans.

Skills

Root cause analysis

Coaching

Quality management

Job description

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The audit quality department is responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of quality initiatives across the practice. Joining the audit quality team at this point would allow you to be at the forefront of change and would offer you a unique opportunity to help shape and develop practical initiatives to improve audit quality.

The role will involve collaboration across the business, including QAD, NATs and the AQCs and will provide you with an insight into various aspects of the audit process.

The audit industry is continually evolving but the consistent theme is the increased focus onaudit quality.

About the Job

• Line management of Audit Quality Champions (AQCs) in the consistent delivery of the quality strategy within the service line
• Involvement in the Quality Response Team meetings and the development of quality proposals for consideration by the Audit Management Board (AMB)
• Regulatory liaison for file reviews/ firmwide work and other information requests and projects. This would involve supporting the audit teams with the meetings and file review responses and for organizing and monitoring firmwide information requests
• Root cause analysis reviews and subsequent quality action planning
• Supporting in the development of supportive coaching plans for RIs where relevant
• Management of independence reviewer allocations and the management and reporting of authorisations to the AMB
• Monitoring quality actions and providing status updates to the Head of Audit Quality

There would be further opportunity to work on other quality initiatives as part of the wider audit quality enhancement plan.