Senior Audit Manager

Bdo South Africa; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

The Senior Audit Manager at Bdo South Africa will oversee audits from planning through finalisation, working with the Audit Partner to ensure project profitability and adherence to policy. You will support client business development and maintain strong relationships with clients.

Reporting to the Audit Partner, you will drive budgets, billing, and WIP management, while mentoring trainees and coordinating audit teams for timely delivery and high-quality service.

Qualifications

• Duties listed in main audit engagements.

Responsibilities

• Oversee audits from planning to finalisation.
• Manage budgets/fees and overruns after partner approves.
• Handle WIP, write-offs, fee queries and debtors.
• Ensure timely and accurate billing to clients.
• Accurate and timely planning of audits.
• Management and execution of audits.
• Manage staff movements on and off assignments and communicate to relevant parties.
• Manage and control staff allocations on audit projects.
• Ensure completion and finalisation of audits.
• Build effective relationships with clients and staff.
• Ensure exceptional client service.
• Decide on audit appropriateness of audit opinion and document conclusions.

Job description

The Senior Audit Manager oversees and ensures that the project runs efficiently and profitably from inception to sign off, by managing all the relevant stakeholders in accordance with the Firm’s policies and procedures. The Senior Audit Manager further supports the Engagement Partner with clients' commercial management and business development initiatives.

Reporting to the Audit Partner you will inter alia be responsible for:

• Business Development
• Negotiating budgets/fees and overruns for clients once fee base has been agreed with the partner
• Managing WIP, write offs, fee queries and debtors
• Ensure Timeous and accurate billing of clients
• Accurate and Timeous planning of audits.
• Management and the Execution of audits.
• Managing staff movements on and off the job and timeously communicate to all relevant parties.
• Manage and control staff allocations on audit project.
• Ensure completion and finalisation of audits
• Building of effective relationships with clients and staff.
• Ensure Exceptional Client Service.
• Decide on audit appropriateness of audit opinion by resolving issues which might impact on the audit opinion and ensuring that these are brought to the attention of the engagement partner and documentation thereof.
• Manage the client and ensure that the project is delivered within the scope agreed on
• Mentoring of trainees
• Timeous completion of performance reviews