Semi Senior Auditor

ZEDRA Group; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Semi-Senior Auditor who will act as a vital link between Assistants and Seniors. In this engaging role, you'll lead low to medium risk audits, ensuring high-quality work and excellent client care. Your responsibilities will include preparing statutory accounts, leading audits, and mentoring junior staff. This position offers an opportunity to enhance your technical knowledge through training while contributing to a collaborative team environment. If you're passionate about audit and eager to develop your skills further, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Ideal candidate is partway through ACA or ACCA studies.
• Must understand the audit cycle and have relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead audits from planning to completion, ensuring efficiency.
• Prepare statutory financial statements and working papers.
• Train and support junior staff in audit processes.

Skills

Audit Cycle Understanding

Communication Skills

Prioritising and Planning

Delegation Skills

Education

Partway through ACA or ACCA

Tools

CaseWare

Job description

Our Semi-Seniors are the bridging role between Assistant and Senior. The expectation is that Semi-Seniors develop the skills required to lead low to medium risk audits from start to finish, preparing a consistently high level of work and providing the client with a good standard of care. The Semi-Senior will be expected to take a leading role in providing training to the Assistant(s) assigned to them.

Key Accountabilities

Statutory Accounts

• Preparation of statutory financial statements from trial balance or prime records
• Preparation of accompanying working papers, including lead schedules, supporting reconciliations and checklists
• For internal and external use (by auditors/client themselves)

Audit

• Lead audits from planning to completion, liaising with the client to ensure an efficient audit process
• Plan audit for manager review
• Complete fieldwork for manager review
• Prepare finalisation for manager review
• Complete a final analytical review detailing how each of the risks identified at planning stage has been addressed
• Prepare an audit summary memorandum detailing the key areas of the audit and any points to note for future reference
• Prepare finalisation documents to send to the client (i.e. letters of representation, profit reconciliation etc.)
• Ensure the audit meets the relevant internal and external deadlines, maintaining calendar synchronisation between managers, the RI and the client.
• Keep managers / RI and client up to date on timings and raise any issues in a timely manner
• Visit clients’ premises to complete audit fieldwork when required, including stock take attendances
• Use available resources to research and investigate challenging audit areas
• Present issues or information to the manager / RI in an appropriate way
• Prepare iXBRLs for tax and filing copies for manager review

General

• Communicate clearly with the team, encouraging key skills such as prioritising, planning and delegation.
• Maintain a strong awareness of ongoing client assignments and outstanding work
• Assist in the training of junior/new members of staff
• Contribute to weekly meetings, offering assistance to all members of staff should it be required
• Liaise with other departments to ensure efficient work and good customer service
• Develop a strong technical knowledge by attending technical training courses and webinars, ensuring up to date knowledge and relaying this back to the team where necessary

Experience

The ideal candidate will be in partway through their studies towards an appropriate accounting qualification e.g., ACA or ACCA. They will have a reasonable understanding of the audit cycle, having worked on small to medium risk audits from planning to completion. Knowledge or experience of CaseWare will be useful but not essential.