Audit Quality

BDO UK; Luton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and business advisory firm is seeking a Senior Manager for the Audit Quality Department. This role involves supporting audit teams, developing innovative tools, and ensuring high audit quality. The ideal candidate will have strong audit knowledge, excellent communication skills, and an ACA qualification. Flexible working and career development opportunities are offered.

Benefits

Flexible working

Career development programs

Mentoring and coaching

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of audit strategies for revenue.
• Experience using Data Analytics in audits.

Responsibilities

• Support audit teams on large audits by coaching and implementing strategies.
• Conduct file reviews to enhance audit quality.

Skills

Communication

Coaching

Data Analytics

Education

ACA qualification

Job description

View more categories View less categories Contract Permanent Hours Full time Sector Finance & accounting, Internal audit

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 the companies that are Britain's economic engine - ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams leading them.

We'll broaden your horizons

Audit quality is central to our strategy as an Audit Stream, the key ingredient to our success. Consistent high audit quality enables us to attract, develop and retain talented people and be proud of our work. Audit quality allows us to compete in the market and demonstrate that we can play a key role in market reform.

Consistently high audit quality does not happen by chance. It requires a mindset and culture of challenge and professional scepticism, appropriate resources both people and intellectual, investment in central support for engagement teams and technology solutions. Within the last year we have increased our headcount significantly, invested in new partners, and commenced a significant investment programme in our central quality support team.

We'll help you succeed

The work we do is underpinned by quality. We deliver audits which are trusted and transparent which can be relied upon by companies and their stakeholders.

You'll be someone who is comfortable working pro-actively and, managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with Senior Managers, Directors, and BDO's Partners. You'll help deliver accurate and transparent reporting to all relevant stakeholders as you provide long term value.

This is an opportunity for talented, high performing and ambitious Senior Manager to join the Centre of Excellence in the Audit Quality Department (AQD) during an exciting time, helping to shape both the role and the expanding team. You will report to a Director/Partner within the CoE and contribute to developing innovative data analytics tools, solutions, methodologies, and guidance for auditing revenue and other key areas, providing valuable support to engagement teams.

As a forward-thinking and innovative team, the Centre of Excellence (CoE) spearheads the development of firm-wide and sector-specific tools, solutions, methodologies, and guidance. The CoE supports engagement teams on targeted large and complex audits by reviewing audit strategies and execution. Currently, the focus is on auditing revenue, with plans to expand to other critical audit areas as the CoE evolves. The CoE also provides support during external regulatory reviews and collaborates with our broader audit quality support functions to enhance audit quality.

Reporting to a Director/Partner within the CoE, your role will include:

1. Support audit teams on large and complex audits by coaching them and assisting in the implementation and execution of a high-quality revenue audit strategy, incorporating controls and digital techniques as appropriate.
2. Conduct file reviews on live audits to enhance audit quality, while coaching and training engagement teams throughout the process.
3. Assist the regulatory team, in conjunction with a CoE Director/Partner, during external AQR reviews.
4. Lead the development of innovative data analytics tools and solutions, as well as methodologies and guidance, for auditing revenue and other key audit areas.
5. Work with the Audit Stream Learning and Development team to identify training needs, contribute to the development of training materials, and present and facilitate training sessions.
6. Collaborate with the broader Audit Quality Directorate and Technology Risk Advisory to enhance audit quality and implement controls and digital audit techniques.

You'll be someone with:

• Strong knowledge of substantive and controls-based audit strategies in the audit of revenue and other key audit areas.
• Experience using Data Analytics procedures on engagements or providing methodology and interpretation support to audit teams in a central role.
• Experience undertaking audit file reviews, either in a regulatory capacity or within practice.
• The role requires strong understanding and practical experience of the regulatory environment, high levels of technical audit expertise and knowledge.
• Excellent communication skills, the ability to challenge engagement teams effectively and a passion for coaching are essential.
• ACA qualification or equivalent.

We value you for who you are and celebrate your contributions. We offer flexible working and career development programs to help you achieve your goals.

Our culture is built on mutual support and respect. We provide mentoring, coaching, and state-of-the-art collaboration spaces to foster learning and teamwork.

We are committed to helping entrepreneurial businesses succeed, fueling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, and we continuously invest in your growth and development.