External Audit Senior Manager - Banking & Capital Markets

Pwc; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Manager to lead audit teams and develop client relationships. You will ensure high-quality audit deliverables and manage complex audit processes. Ideal candidates will be Chartered Accountants with extensive experience in IFRS/UK GAAP and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Must possess a Chartered Accountant qualification or equivalent work experience.
• High level of experience of IFRS and/or UK GAAP required.
• Strong project management skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead large international audit teams from planning to completion.
• Develop trusted senior client relationships and manage challenging conversations.
• Deliver complex audit work, articulate conclusions clearly.
• Ensure audit documentation meets the highest standards.

Skills

Chartered Accountant / ACA / ACCA / ICAS qualification

IFRS and/or UK GAAP Knowledge

Project Management Skills

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Resilience and Dedication

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Manager, you'll lead a team of forward-thinking individuals to deliver high quality audits. You'll be responsible, alongside the audit engagement leader, to develop and nurture relationships with our client's senior leaders and work with them to plan the audit process from beginning to end. A rewarding career path awaits - join our team to develop yourself as a strategic leader, benefit from the wide range of development opportunities at PwC alongside contributing to the success of the audit business.

Responsibilities

• Leading large multi-location, often international, teams using your people and relationship management skills to deliver high quality audit work from project planning to completion;
• Developing trusted senior client relationships and demonstrating curiosity that allows you to have insightful conversations and provide appropriate challenge during the Audit;
• Building connections across teams and specialist areas within PwC to bring insight to the organisations we audit. This includes managing specialist teams supporting the audit, building consensus around conflicting views and making recommendations where appropriate;
• Leading the delivery of the areas of complex or judgemental audit work, including identifying issues, analysing multiple data points to draw informed conclusions and clearly articulate these conclusions in written and verbal form to senior stakeholders;
• Ensuring the team's audit documentation meets the highest standards, reviewing financial statements to ensure they comply with relevant requirements;

Qualifications

• Must possess a Chartered Accountant / ACA / ACCA / ICAS qualification (or an international equivalent) or have equivalent work experience. This includes international candidates who qualify through experience in their home country;
• A high level of experience of IFRS and/or UK GAAP and be highly skilled in using international standards on auditing;
• Highly developed project management skills and a strong track record of managing larger or more complex audits to the highest standard from planning to completion;
• Has the ability to communicate complex or contentious audit matters clearly and concisely in both verbal and written form to colleagues and senior client stakeholders;
• Has the ability to offer considered points of view in client conversations around broader industry topics and provide knowledgeable challenge to senior clients in the context of an audit; and
• Takes pride in their work and in the Audit profession. Shows resilience and demonstrates dedication to self development including being agile and innovative in the digital world.

Industry context

Banking and Capital Markets (B&CM) Audit is the market leading banking audit practice, with an extensive portfolio of flagship clients ranging from global banks through to brokers, challenger banks and FinTechs. Our team of 650 experts, deliver audit services to our clients from offices across the UK. In order to be the leading professional services firm it's important we have the right values, culture and behaviours embedded throughout our organisation, so our work reflects our purpose and we can successfully deliver our strategy.

Our values set the expectations for the way we interact with each other, our clients, and in the communities in which we operate. These values, and the behaviours that they require from us, are relevant to all our people regardless of grade. They support a culture that empowers our people to be the best they can be, through challenging experiences and encouraging our people to speak up to make the firm a better place. We want all our people to understand and embrace the culture and personally feel part of the legacy this will create for our future employees. We're a hugely diverse business, bound together by our purpose - to build trust in society and solve important problems for our clients and the communities in which we operate. We believe we can make the biggest impact when our purpose is embedded within everything we do.