Senior Compliance & Quality Lead – Audit & Ethics

DJH; Hempstalls; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous holiday allowance + birthday

Volunteer day

Job summary

DJH is an award-winning accountancy firm with offices across the UK and Ireland. We are recruiting a Senior Technical & Compliance Manager to lead the firm's compliance and quality framework from Stoke-on-Trent or our Manchester offices.

You will own ISQM 1/2, oversee ICAEW practice assurance, monitor HMRC/ICAEW developments, update policies and manuals, and manage monitoring visits. You’ll also lead training, ethics, audits, and reporting to the Directors to drive continuous improvement across

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualification experience in a practice environment, including a compliance, risk or quality management role.
• Strong working knowledge of ICAEW practice assurance and audit requirements and ISQM 1 / ISQM 2.
• Demonstrable experience of technical audit monitoring or file review, including identifying findings, root cause analysis and driving remediation.
• Sound understanding of the ICAEW Code of Ethics, ethical standards for auditors and PCRT obligations.
• Strong working knowledge of ISAs (UK), FRC quality and audit standards, and familiarity with FRC Audit Quality Review findings and themes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the firm's compliance with ICAEW practice assurance and audit requirements and manage all aspects of monitoring visits, including preparation, responses and follow-up.
• Own and develop the firm's quality management framework under ISQM 1 and ISQM 2, including the annual evaluation of the system of quality management.
• Monitor developments from HMRC, ICAEW and other regulatory bodies, assessing impact on firm policies and procedures and communicating findings to Partners and team members.
• Maintain and update the firm's compliance manuals, policies and procedures, ensuring they remain current with regulatory requirements.
• Track and manage regulatory correspondence, findings, action plans and remediation activity.
• Design and operate the firm's technical audit monitoring programme, including file selection, review methodology and thematic inspection across all audit service lines.

Skills

Compliance management

Audit standards knowledge

Ethics & independence

Technical audit monitoring

Regulatory reporting

Education

ACA or ACCA or equivalent

Job description

DJH is an award-winning accountancy firm with offices across the UK and Ireland. We are recruiting a Senior Technical & Compliance Manager to lead the firm's compliance and quality framework from Stoke-on-Trent or our Manchester offices.

You will own ISQM 1/2, oversee ICAEW practice assurance, monitor HMRC/ICAEW developments, update policies and manuals, and manage monitoring visits. You’ll also lead training, ethics, audits, and reporting to the Directors to drive continuous improvement across