Audit Quality - Digital Audit Support - Manager/Senior Manager

BDO; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking firm dedicated to empowering entrepreneurial businesses in the UK. As a Manager or Senior Manager in the Digital Audit Support team, you will leverage your extensive IT auditing experience to guide audit practices and ensure compliance with evolving standards. This role offers a collaborative environment where you can develop your skills, lead projects, and contribute to high-quality audit outputs. With a commitment to personal growth and a supportive culture, this is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of audit services while making a significant impact on the economy.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in audit, particularly in IT and controls-based auditing.
• Experience in managing audit projects with exemplary technical skills.

Responsibilities

• Developing and enhancing the firm’s approach to controls-based auditing.
• Providing advice and ensuring compliance with ISAs and audit methodology.

Skills

IT auditing

controls-based auditing

data analytics

financial auditing

communication skills

problem-solving skills

Education

CISA

Chartered Accountant

Job description

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

As experts on a wide number of issues, our Audit Quality Department (AQD) provides support to our specialists in audit/assurance and other business streams. From being on-hand to help with complex enquiries, to implementing and advising on policy and processes, AQD are the people tasked with finding solutions to some of our teams’ most complex technical issues.

As part of this supportive and knowledgeable team, you’ll have a chance to use and develop your technical skills and experience, find solutions to technical queries and contribute daily to the firm’s commitment to deliver high quality output. Learn on the job. Lead and manage projects. Build a network of experienced specialists. Whatever level you are, this could be the role for you.

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.

We are seeking to recruit a Manager or Senior Manager to join the Digital Audit Support team within our Audit Quality Department supporting the audit practice.

The successful candidate will have significant experience in audit, particularly in controls based and IT auditing, in managing audit and audit-related projects, with exemplary technical skills regarding auditing standards and their practical application including experience in audit reporting matters.

The successful candidate will have experience in applying a controls and IT based audit approach and/or will have been involved in preparing methodology and guidance, and advice to audit teams implementing such strategies. Experience with data analytics, SOx (or equivalent) assurance and financial auditing is desirable.

As part of the Digital Audit Support team, they will be providing advice and ensuring compliance with ISAs and the firm’s audit methodology, particularly as it pertains to controls-based auditing including:

• Developing and enhancing the firm’s approach to controls-based and IT auditing.

• Monitoring and reacting to the potential development of UK SOx, ISA and regulatory updates, ensuring that the firm’s methodologies remain closely aligned to new requirements, developments in good audit practice.

• Writing and updating relevant guidance and supporting material.

• Supporting the development and delivery of audit methodology training content.

• Carrying out targeted file reviews for the purposes of internal quality control or testing.

• Responding to audit methodology queries from audit staff at all levels (email, telephone or in person).

• Other ad-hoc quality related assignments, such as regulatory and root cause analysis support.

You'll be someone:

• Significant IT and controls-based external audit experience.

• As this role will involve training and coaching peers, and will involve reviews of audit files for quality control and testing purposes, experience as external IT audit manager is essential

• Has extensive experience of the application of IT in business processes related to financial reporting.

• Has wide-ranging practical experience regarding the application of ISAs and audit methodology.

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a small team and able to use own initiative.

• High attention to detail.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

• Experience of training design, development and delivery.

• Strong problem-solving skills.

• Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own work

• CISA or Chartered Accountant qualifications useful however not mandatory.

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to our business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.