Audit Senior Associate

Saffery; High Wycombe; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy firm in High Wycombe is seeking an experienced Audit Senior to join their team. The role involves delivering comprehensive audits, leading junior team members, and ensuring compliance with audit requirements. Candidates should be ACA or ACCA qualified with strong communication skills and a client-focused approach. This position offers a hybrid working model and excellent benefits.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Flexible benefits

Paid overtime or time off in lieu

Qualifications

• Proven track record in accounts preparation.
• Good knowledge of UK GAAP, IFRS would be beneficial.
• Ability to work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complete audit files to managers.
• Lead teams on audit fieldwork while developing team members.
• Ensure professional skepticism during audits.

Skills

Audit experience

Excellent communication skills

Client focused

Organizational skills

Team management

Education

ACA/ACCA qualification

Tools

Excel

Word

CCH accounts and audit automation

Job description

The High Wycombe office are looking for an experienced, professional and enthusiastic Audit Senior, to join our audit and accounts team. Applicants must be ACA or ACCA qualified/finalist and be able to display a commercially minded and proactive approach to client work.

The role

This is a varied and challenging role which will include exposure to a wide range of clients, often working to tight deadlines.

The key role is to deliver complete Audit files to managers, to include:

• Full planning; identifying risks, setting materiality and designing appropriate tests

• Leading a team on audit fieldwork, with a focus on development of the team and delivering a positive client experience

• Detailed audit work, taking ownership for decisions and conclusions made through professional judgment

• Good understanding of audit requirements, ensuring professional scepticism is applied and appropriate documentation made

• Developing a rapport with clients to deliver effective audits and accounts

• File completion, including summarising key audit findings for the partner's attention.

• Regular and effective communication with manager and team throughout audit process

• Responsibility for budgetary control and keeping manager informed thereon

• Liaising with other Saffery teams, such as corporate tax, to ensure we provide a joined-up service

• Reviewing the work of more junior team members

• Working across client sites, as well as in the office and from home.

The Team

The Audit Team within the High Wycombe office comprises circa 25 members of staff, from audit trainees up to Director. The team work with all partners within the office, and firmwide, on a variety of tasks including audits, statutory accounts preparation and ad-hoc client queries.

There is a real focus on development within the team, with the aim being for staff to develop their careers long term within the firm. Alongside a commitment to client service, and excellence in their work, there is a willingness to help each other and succeed as a team.

The Office

We offer accounting, audit and assurance, business advisory, tax and VAT services, acting for businesses and individuals both in the UK and internationally. The portfolio of clients held within the office range from AIM listed clients , large corporate groups to landed estates, with key specialisms in owner managed businesses, property, private wealth and professional practices. Our staff work regularly and closely with their colleagues in our national offices to provide a seamless service to clients, wherever they are located.

Our High Wycombe office is home to 3 partners and 50 members of staff. We benefit from a small office feel, within the larger Saffery family of over 900 people.

You

• ACA/ACCA qualified/finalist

• Audit experience, including planning and completion

• Good knowledge of UK GAAP, IFRS would be beneficial

• Proven track record in accounts preparation

• Excellent communication skills

• Client focused with commercial awareness

• Computer experience: Excel, Word and ideally CCH accounts and audit automation

• Excellent organisational skills and ability to work on multiple jobs at once

• Experience of running teams and supervising junior team members

• Ability to work in a pressured environment

• Proactive nature and enjoys working as part of a team.

Although not a pre-requisite, it would be beneficial if you had:

• Driving licence and ability to travel to client premises

Reward and benefits

• A 35 hour working week and a hybrid working policy with a minimum of 2 days in the office (our core hours are 10-4)

• Excellent benefits including; contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave, Life Assurance cover and great flexible benefits and family friendly policies,

• Eligibility for the firm's Profit-Sharing Plan. Paid in December.

• Paid overtime or time off in lieu.

About us
Saffery LLP is an adviser to individuals and businesses across a range of sectors, providing market-leading accountancy, audit, business advisory, tax and VAT services. Founded in 1855, we are the UK's 15th largest accountancy firm.

When you work with us at Saffery, you work with people who know your name, not just a job title. We're a place shaped by friendly, intelligent people who are individually excellent and collectively exceptional. We're committed to our clients, but also to our greatest asset - our people.

As a proud member of Nexia, a leading, international network of independent accounting and consulting firms, we've got access to local insight on a global scale.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Equality, diversity and inclusion is a top priority for us. With our ED&I strategy, Everyone Belongs, we are building on our positive work culture and implementing initiatives to improve diversity and strengthen our equitable culture of inclusion, led from the top.

We hope you will apply to us, whatever your background, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability or neurodivergence, because individual differences equal collective strength. Built on values of excellence, integrity, enthusiasm and collegiality, Saffery is where Potential meets Personal.