Audit/Audit Senior

5 days ago

City of London Greater London, United Kingdom Insite Group Full time

THE ROLE We are looking for an experienced and qualified Senior to join our busy Audit team. Experience with IFRS, UK GAAP, consolidations, consolidated financial statements, and managing or leading small teams is highly desirable.
Take full responsibility for audit assignments from planning through to completion, including fieldwork and finalisation.
Review work prepared by junior team members, offering feedback to support their development.
Manage expectations of partners and senior staff to ensure projects are completed within realistic timeframes.
Communicate directly with clients-on-site, via phone, and email-to resolve queries.
Identify and escalate any delivery or technical issues to senior staff or partners.
Collaborate with managers, partners, and other departments to ensure seamless service delivery.
Maintain compliance with internal practice management requirements.
Act as a senior team member supporting management on complex clients, including international groups.
Lead the planning process for smaller audits, including determining materiality, identifying risks, designing tailored fieldwork tests, and assisting with budgeting and timetabling.
Allocate work to juniors, brief them clearly, and remain available throughout the audit to provide guidance and answer queries.
Complete fieldwork for more challenging audit areas (e.g., Monitor audit progress against budget and timeline, addressing issues and rebalancing workloads where necessary.
Review and sign off audit sections, resolving outstanding issues raised by junior staff.
Prepare reclassification and adjusting journals and ensure correct financial statement disclosure.
Manage the finalisation process for smaller audits, including clearing review points, preparing audit highlight memos, performing final analytical reviews, assessing going concern, and ensuring financial statements align with audit work.
Prepare statutory accounts and complete disclosure checklists.
Liaise with the tax team to resolve queries related to corporation tax computations.
Take a supervisory or assistant manager role on smaller, straightforward audits.
Perform other ad hoc duties as needed.
An excellent communicator, both verbally and in writing.
Strong technical and commercial awareness, with good risk judgement and a clear understanding of when to escalate technical issues.
Open to feedback and committed to ongoing professional development.
Highly proficient with IT and audit/accounting software.
Detail-focused, organised, and committed to producing high-quality work.
Flexible, reliable, and willing to support colleagues.
ACA/ACCA qualified (time and exam), with up to two years' post-qualification experience.
Private medical insurance
~23 days' annual leave plus bank holidays and three additional days over the December holiday period
~3% pension contribution
~ Cashback scheme for medical expenses
~ Group Life Insurance
~ Mental and physical health support
~ Regular social events and activities
~ Cycle-to-work scheme
~ Season ticket loans
~ Modern, well-equipped office in a central London location
~ Flexible working: three or more days in the office per week, two days from home

Working hours: 9:30am-5:30pm, Monday to Friday
Hybrid working model

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