Senior Audit Manager

BDO South Africa; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading audit firm in Cape Town seeks a Senior Audit Manager to oversee project efficiency and profitability. Responsibilities include managing client relationships, ensuring timely billing, executing audits, and mentoring trainees. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills and a commitment to exceptional client service, ensuring projects are delivered within scope. Join a dynamic team to contribute to business development initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Oversee project efficiency and profitability from inception to sign off.
• Manage business development and client relationships.
• Ensure timely and accurate billing of clients.
• Execute audits and manage staff allocations on audit projects.
• Mentor trainees and complete performance reviews.

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:

Responsibilities

• 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