Audit Senior (Public Sector)

The Role

As an Audit Senior, you will lead audit engagements, supervise junior staff and ensure compliance within UK accounting and auditing standards. You will communicate with clients, review financial statements, and assess internal controls. Your role ensures audit quality, efficiency, and accurate reporting of financial data.


Core Skills

Client Focus

Set budgets and monitor them against ongoing job progress and report results to manager, communicate overruns/additional services taking corrective action when appropriate and necessary
Manage flexible working of self and assistants based around client needs and business deadlines
Demonstrate ability to secure opportunities for Azets to add value to clients
Take pride in getting the job done fully and well
Is able to deal with challenging client feedback.

Technical Excellence

Provides support, guidance and training to all team members and highlight areas of weakness through timely feedback
Has strong sector knowledge, however is aware of when to escalate more complex technical queries.

Commitment

Takes responsibility for the workflow planning of the team
Proactively seeks out new opportunities to develop their skills and experience away from purely operational tasks
Takes responsibility for achieving goals and targets
Can keep track and manage several tasks simultaneously.

Living Our Values

Shows good understanding of our company values, and making good progress towards consistently demonstrating required behaviours.

Technical Skills
Can interpret and conclude on matters relating to group/component auditor requirements under ISA600 – where Azets operate as group auditor or component auditor
Demonstrates ability to assess risk independently
Be able to interpret group reorganisations or other more complex/less usual transactions and their impact on audit approach and resultant financial reporting
Have a sound knowledge of appropriate accounting and auditing standards, together with Companies Act requirements necessary to produce accurate and compliant financial statements
Able to lead internal audit planning, progress and completion meetings ensuring salient matters are fully understood by the engagement team
Proficient at leading the most complex audits delivering from planning to sign off including experience of long term contract accounting, acquisition accounting and other more complex areas
Able to audit overseas subsidiaries / IFRS / contract accounting / acquisitions / disposals / restructures and other higher level complexities within both file and financial statements
Demonstrate ability to deliver first year audits in setting up well thought out testing which clearly tackles identified risks
Actively identify improvements to testing methodology with Audit Quality and Audit Efficiency as cornerstones
Consider impacts on future years audits through ensuring points forward are updated. Points forward are truly considered for how the audit can be made more efficient or to provide stronger evidence
Demonstrate awareness of all client deadlines (Companies House, Group reporting, Corporate Tax) and show commitment to work to them
Liaise with other departments confidently where required
Maintains commitment to producing high quality work in all aspects of audit work.