Job profile:
Digital
Career zone:
The assurance provider
An audit manager will manage and deliver audit engagements from planning through to completion. The role will require proficiency in relevant accounting standards, as well as extensive audit experience.
The role holder is expected to manage a portfolio of clients which will differ from firm to firm, having responsibility for agreeing audit timetables, briefing the audit team, including other specialists, monitoring budgets and supervising the audit process.
Responsibilities will vary, but examples include:
The audit manager plays a senior role in carrying out the audit and preparing for the audit partner to ultimately sign off the audit reports produced at the conclusion of the statutory audit process on behalf of the partnership. At this level, the audit manager is also expected to manage a portfolio of clients, as well as develop their own team to ensure public oversight is met.
The audit manager is expected to act as a leadership role model and display great drive.
Excellent collaboration skills are essential to manage their own team, liaise with senior management and a range of stakeholders at all levels. They may also be required to prepare and deliver presentations as needed for senior management or external stakeholders.
As with all audit roles, excellent Insight and Integrity is required to be successful.
Increasingly the audit manager is expected to have excellent digital analytical skills as well as being proficient in the use of all digital office tools.
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