Audit Senior Associate

Saffery; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent audit firm in Manchester is seeking an experienced Qualified Senior Associate to join their audit team. The ideal candidate will be ACA or ACCA qualified, possess audit management experience, and communicate effectively while managing client relationships. The role includes overseeing audits from planning to completion, as well as opportunities for career advancement within a supportive team structure. This position promotes a hybrid working model along with excellent benefits including a contributory pension scheme and 25 days annual leave.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days annual leave

Life Assurance cover

Flexible benefits and family friendly policies

Profit-Sharing Plan eligibility

Qualifications

• Applicants must be ACA or ACCA qualified with audit experience.
• Strong communication skills are required.
• Experience in planning and completing audits is essential.
• Ability to manage multiple jobs under pressure and a proactive nature are important.

Responsibilities

• Project manage the audit and accounting process liaising with client finance teams.
• Get involved in planning, fieldwork, and completion of audit engagements.
• Manage a small portfolio of jobs to support career progression.

Skills

ACA/ACCA qualified

Audit experience, including planning and completion

Excellent communication skills

Client focused with commerciality awareness

Computer experience: Excel, Word

Good technical knowledge including recent developments in accounting and auditing standards

Excellent organisational skills

Ability to work in a pressured environment

Proactive nature

Tools

CCH accounts

Job description

Overview

Our Manchester office is looking for an experienced, professional and enthusiastic Qualified Senior Associate to join our audit team. Applicants must be either ACA or ACCA qualified and be able to display a commercially minded and organised approach to client work.

You will become a key part of a growing team, which provides a wide range of audit, advisory and accounting services to a huge range of diverse clients including but not limited to landed estates, charities, owner-managed businesses and FCA regulated entities.

Responsibilities

• Project manage and drive forwards the audit and accounting process, including liaising directly with senior individuals in clients\' finance teams.


• Get actively involved in every aspect of the audit process, taking ownership of planning, fieldwork, and the completion on audit engagements, working closely with managers and partners.


• Have the opportunity to get involved in the direction and overall running of the team. There may also be opportunities to work on ad hoc projects e.g. department or firm wide working groups and client advisory work.

Our Audit Senior Associates are often given the opportunity to manage a small portfolio of jobs, which helps you to develop the next stage of your career progression. With exciting growth plans in the team, we have a successful framework in place where you will be supported and encouraged throughout your time with us, to allow ample opportunity for further development.

The Team

The Audit team within the Manchester office comprises over 40 members of staff. There is a real focus on development within the team, with the aim being for our people to develop their careers long term within the firm.

Clients are varied in nature with the opportunity to work on AIM listed organisations, complex groups with overseas links, Owner Managed Businesses and charities and not for profit organisations.

The Office

Our Manchester office is home to 6 partners and over 110 staff. Our modern, purpose-built office space on John Dalton Street has been designed to provide a working space that is conducive to team collaboration and agile working.

Qualifications and Skills

• ACA/ACCA qualified


• Audit experience, including planning and completion


• Excellent communication skills


• Client focused with commerciality awareness


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


• Good technical knowledge including recent developments in accounting and auditing standards


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


• 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


• Experience of consolidated accounts


• Experience of IFRS

Reward and Benefits

• A 35-hour working week with a hybrid working policy with the flexibility to work from home for up to three days per week (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.

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.