Audit Scotland - Senior Manager

EY UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

EY UK is expanding its UKI Assurance team and seeks a Senior Manager to lead major external UK audit engagements. Based in Scotland, you will drive delivery, ensure regulatory compliance, and mentor junior staff, while maintaining strong client relationships and delivering high-quality audits.

The role emphasizes senior leadership, technical excellence in UK GAAP/IFRS, and the ability to manage complex, multi-disciplinary teams across large listed and multinational clients.

Qualifications

• Experience planning, leading, and delivering major external UK audit engagements (e.g. FTSE 100) in a senior managerial capacity.
• Fully qualified as a chartered accountant (ACA/ACCA/CA/ICAS/ICAEW).
• Excellent technical expertise using and applying IFRS and UK GAAP.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex audit engagements with adherence to firm methodologies, standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Build and nurture client relationships, providing advisory support throughout transactions.

Skills

Audit leadership

UK GAAP IFRS expertise

UK Listed audits experience

Project management

People management

Communication skills

Education

Chartered accountant qualification

Job description

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UKI Assurance - Audit Scotland - Audit Senior Manager

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you. We’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Our UK and Ireland (UKI) Assurance team is fully integrated, working across borders to help clients deal with issues that are critical to their success, and winning new business as a result. From small businesses to some of the world’s best-known brands, our clients count on reliable financial statements, information, and processes to inform their ongoing strategies. You’ll use your professional skills and experience to make it happen, handling complex audit procedures across a broad range of clients. Your goal will be to help clients achieve their potential - and you can expect to do the same.

The opportunity

As an auditor at EY, you will provide independent verification of our clients’ compliance with accounting principles. By doing so, you play a meaningful role in helping businesses accurately reflect their financial picture and improve their operations. In return, you can expect leading class learning and development tailored to your unique interests and motivations. You’ll be given all the skills, knowledge, and opportunities to progress and become ready to build a better working world for our people, our clients and the communities that support us.

We are expanding our Audit teams across the UK with vacancies in: Edinburgh; Glasgow.

Your key responsibilities

Everything you do will come back to providing exceptional audit services for our clients.

• Effectively leading complex audit engagements in accordance with the firm's methodologies and guidance, professional standards, and local legal and regulatory requirements
• Building and nurturing new business relationships, engaging clients, and providing authoritative advice and professionalism throughout transactions
• Understanding our clients’ unique ambitions and needs, delivering value to the client by providing knowledge, ideas, and solutions for improving their business, assessing legal implications
• Successfully and proactively managing multi-disciplinary teams, resolving any challenges, and ensuring the smooth delivery of team operations, client audits and services
• Anticipating, identifying, resourcing, analysing and resolving complex technical accounting and auditing matters, including engaging with technical specialist colleagues
• Proactively embracing the use of new audit tools to drive high quality, effective and efficient audit procedures
• Performance management and coaching of junior colleagues throughout the performance year
• Identifying and acting upon staff needs, including resourcing, learning and development
• Constantly refreshing your understanding of current market trends

Skills and attributes for success

Colleagues and clients from a diverse array of backgrounds will look to you first for answers, so you’ll be a high-profile contact and point of escalation when it comes to resolving complex issues. As you build your knowledge and experience, you’ll become a credible advisor, influencing clients and engagement teams on resolutions that will impact entire industries. You'll also be introduced to career challenges that will take you into exciting new professional territory.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Experience planning, leading, and delivering major external UK audit engagements (e.g. FTSE 100) in a senior managerial capacity. We are particularly interested in UK based candidates who are experienced senior managers serving large and complex clients such as domestic and foreign listed companies, major group audits and large international groups.
• Fully qualified as a chartered accountant e.g. ACA / ACCA / CA / ICAS / ICAEW
• Excellent technical expertise (non financial services) using and applying IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Significant experience executing audit and assurance engagements in accordance with UK auditing standards
• Exceptional project management ability, driving delivery with urgency and holding stakeholders accountable
• Strong people management experience, setting high standards and acting as a positive role model for more junior team members
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

*Please note that evidence of qualification status will be requested pre-interview. We kindly request that applicants upload a copy of their qualification certificate at the point of application.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Previous professional experience at Senior Manager level, or equivalent
• Knowledge of UK listing rules
• An application and solution-based approach to problem solving and a collaborative approach to management
• The flexibility to constantly learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment
• Experience of US GAAP and SOX 404

What we look for

We’re interested in confident and resilient professionals with a genuine curiosity to learn, understand their clients businesses and confidence to challenge in a constructive matter. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so we look for people who will be driven, take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about auditing and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.

What working at EY offers

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

The exceptional EY experience. Shape your future with confidence!

Please note: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. We ask because it matters!

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