Audit Quality Review & Support Team Senior Manager

BDO UK; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and business advisory firm is seeking a Senior Manager for their Audit Quality Review & Support Team. The role focuses on enhancing audit quality through reviews, coaching, and collaboration with teams. Ideal candidates will possess strong auditing skills and a keen interest in quality improvements.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Career development programs

Qualifications

• Extensive practical and technical auditing experience, especially on complex audits.
• Desirable: Experience with audit quality reviews and IFRS9/17 expertise.

Responsibilities

• Performing reviews at all audit stages to improve quality.
• Challenging audit procedures and documentation.
• Contributing to training and guidance development.

Skills

Attention to detail

Strong communication skills

Effective project management

Innovative thinking

Job description

Audit Quality Review & Support Team Senior Manager

Ideas | People | Trust

We're BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today's changing world.

We work with Britain's economic engine—ambitious, entrepreneurially spirited, high-growth businesses—and directly advise their owners and management teams.

We'll broaden your horizons

Audit quality is central to our strategy as an Audit Stream, essential for our success. Consistently high audit quality attracts, develops, and retains talented people, and demonstrates our leadership in market reform.

Achieving high audit quality requires a culture of challenge and professional scepticism, appropriate resources, investment in support teams, and technology. Recently, we've increased our headcount, invested in new partners, and launched a significant quality support program.

The Quality Review & Support team (QRST) within the Audit Quality Department (AQD) supports our audit specialists by performing independent reviews, assisting with complex inquiries, and ensuring high-quality audits. You'll develop technical skills, find solutions to complex issues, and contribute to our commitment to quality.

We'll help you succeed

Our work is underpinned by quality—trustworthy, transparent audits relied upon by companies and stakeholders.

You should be proactive, able to manage your tasks, collaborate effectively, and communicate regularly with senior staff. You'll deliver accurate reporting and add long-term value.

We are seeking a Senior Manager with Financial Services experience to join the QRST team. Your role will involve reviewing public interest entity audits, challenging audit processes, coaching teams, and supporting audit quality improvements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Performing reviews at all audit stages to improve quality
• Setting review focus areas and liaising with leadership
• Discussing quality matters with teams and developing strategies
• Challenging audit procedures and documentation
• Supporting teams to implement quality improvements
• Identifying issues requiring firm-wide action
• Contributing to training and guidance development
• Providing practical solutions to quality queries
• Participating in wider audit quality initiatives

Ideal candidates will have:

• A keen interest in audit quality
• Extensive practical and technical auditing experience, especially on complex audits
• Good knowledge of IFRS
• Confidence to challenge and influence others
• Innovative thinking to improve quality
• Attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Effective project management
• Desirable: Experience with audit quality reviews and IFRS9/17 expertise

We value authenticity and offer flexible working arrangements. We support your career development with programs, resources, and frameworks.

We're in it together

Mutual support and respect are core values. We foster a people-centered culture through mentoring, coaching, and collaborative spaces. You'll have opportunities to build your network, learn, and grow.

We're looking forward to the future

We help entrepreneurial businesses succeed, fueling the UK economy. Our success depends on our people, and we continuously invest in your growth. We adapt and evolve to build on our strengths, shaping the future with openness and clarity, empowering creative thinking.