Audit Director

Saffery; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35 hour working week

Hybrid working

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Profit-Sharing Plan

Discretionary bonus

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Saffery is seeking an Audit Director to join our Ireland team, focusing on Film & TV clients. You will oversee a wide portfolio and deliver audit, accounting, and advisory services, working directly with Partners.

Manage engagements from inception to delivery, ensuring budget, quality, and client satisfaction. The role includes developing the team, nurturing client relationships, and actively seeking new business.

Qualifications

• The role requires a qualified accountant with strong audit and accounting knowledge.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills are essential.
• Proactive client service and business development approach is expected.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver high-quality services to clients
• Lead client contact for production and delivery of audit and accounts preparation services
• Oversee end-to-end engagement management from inception to delivery, including planning and budgeting
• Develop and lead the team, ensuring high-quality work
• Ensure work is delivered on time and within budget
• Support Partners in service development for the portfolio
• Act as a business advisor and grow market knowledge
• Proactively seek to generate new business for the firm
• Engage in ongoing professional development

Skills

Strong technical knowledge of auditing

Strong technical knowledge of counting

Education

Qualified Accountant (CA/ACCA or equivalent)

Job description

The role

The successful Audit Director will become part of the team providing a wide range of audit, accounting, and advisory services to our clients. We are able to offer varied and interesting work involving client contact with the people who make the decisions.

The successful Audit Director will become part of the team providing a wide range of audit, accounting, and advisory services to our clients. We are able to offer varied and interesting work involving client contact with the people who make the decisions.

As the Director you will have responsibility for managing a wide portfolio of clients that predominately operate in Film and TV spaces reporting directly to the Partners.

The position would also involve some accounts preparation work, as well as one-off assignments and special work, as required.

The Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver of high-quality services to clients
• Lead contact for the client in the production and delivery of high-quality accounts preparation, audit and compliance services Develop and grow a professional relationship with your client portfolio in conjunction with the complete service team
• Manage the entire client engagement from inception to delivery, to include planning, budgetary control, file review, resolution of significant issues with Partner and client, and delivery of case to Partner
• Play a lead role in management and development of the team, ensuring a high quality of work
• Ensure that work is economically managed and delivered to ensure that the case is completed on time and within budget
• Support the Partner in the development of service provided to the portfolio
• Act in a business advisory role with the client, grow general and specialist market knowledge
• Actively seek to generate new business for the firm
• Participate in personal professional development through regular attendance at professional updates

The team

The firm’s Film and TV department are the market leaders in this sector in both Ireland and the UK and offer a dynamic environment with huge scope for professional and personal development as the firm grows. Saffery in the UK are the market leaders in film and TV finance. The UK sector is the largest production hub outside of Los Angeles with countless LA companies and studios now choosing the UK and Ireland to produce their content. The ideal candidate will be a commercially focused, motivated, and ambitious individual looking for a challenge in an industry that has doubled in size in Ireland in the last three years and is set to double again in the next two years.

You

• Qualified Accountant with at least 3 years PQE and 2 years Management experience
• Strong technical knowledge of accounting and audit principles
• Ability to effectively project manage a number of assignments simultaneously
• Excellent team leading, interpersonal and communication skills
• Proactive approach to client service and business development
• Strong commercial acumen and relationship building skills

Reward And Benefits

• A 35 hour working week with a hybrid working policy with the flexibility to work from home for up to three days per week (our core hours are 10-4)
• Excellent benefits including; contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave, Life Assurance cover and great flexible benefits and family friendly policies,
• Eligibility for the firm’s Profit-Sharing Plan. Paid in December.
• Eligibility for the discretionary bonus scheme.