Audit Senior

MHA; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday including bank hols; 5

Study support

Job summary

MHA is seeking an Audit Senior in London to lead and deliver a high volume of audits across sectors, ensuring deadlines and regulatory compliance. You will supervise junior staff, manage budgets, and coordinate with Partners for review, contributing to quality audit files and client communications.

Ideal candidates hold ACA/ACCA, with 2–3 years of auditing experience and exposure to financial services. Strong planning, teamwork, and client-focused approach are essential for success.

Qualifications

• ACA or ACCA, part qualified with practice experience.
• 2-3 years of 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 different environments.
• Organised - ability to deal with a variety of tasks.
• Client focused.
• Commercially aware.
• Team building skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure.

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: 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.

Skills

ACA/ACCA

Auditing experience

Planning & execution

Communication

Organised

Client focus

Commercial awareness

Teamwork

Problem solving

Working under pressure

Education

ACA/ACCA part qualified

Tools

Sage

Excel

Word

CaseWare

Job description

Audit Senior

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:
  • 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, part qualified with practice experience
• 2-3 years of 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 different environments.
• Organised - ability to deal with a variety of tasks.
• Client focused.
• Commercially aware.
• Team building skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Be positive and committed to MHA in dealings with both clients and staff.

What we can offer you

• Genuine work life balance.
• Accredited Investor in People.
• New and improved programme for Succession planning and supportive management structure to help you realise your potential.
• 30 days holiday including bank holidays, plus the opportunity to buy up to 5 days.
• Study support
• Competitive salary.
• Amazing employee referral scheme, paying up to £4000 for a successful referral.
• Paid CSR time.
• And more!

Our application form takes just a few minutes to complete and includes some diversity questions. MHA is a committed member of Access Accountancy and as such, we track our diversity stats and actively work to improve on these, year on year, looking at new ways to promote our roles to the widest audience. Any data collected is fully anonymised before sharing with any external parties, as per our Data Protection Policy and is not visible to hiring managers, or used in any way during the selection process.