UK PS- AM- GGN

Roles & responsibilities

We are recruiting for an Assistant Manager in the Audit team. In this team, your responsibilities will include leading a team of experienced professional, perform reviews and work on Audit engagements of international KPMG teams and clients. In addition, you will be required to:

• Be a lead in an audit team to delivery quality deliverables of end-to-end audit engagements of international KPMG teams and clients.
• Leading and managing a team of up to 6-7 people comprising of graduates and experienced professionals.
• Planning an audit engagement and be able to perform pre-planning audit activities, staffing an engagement, plan and perform risk assessments work, work with clients on PBC requirements, work assignments to engagement team members, etc.
• Lead junior and semi experienced audit team members and perform reviews of junior team member’s audit work while also undertaking smaller and medium-sized audit engagements independently or assist in larger assignments reporting to a Manager or Senior Manager.
• Work on complex sections of the financial statements of audit engagements as per country specific statutory requirements and prepare and document accounting workpapers, controls and audit findings.
• Establish strong professional relationships with clients and engagement team members through regular connects and meetings.

Roles & responsibilities

• Provide regular updates on work pipeline, discussions with engagement teams on issues/missing information, manage & track the open issues until resolved, etc. while maintaining the data confidentiality and adherence to the risk management policy by the team members.
• Coach and mentor junior team members and act as performance managers to build future leaders.

Mandatory technical & functional skills

• In depth knowledge of external Audit for corporate/government bodies/entities and/or international clients
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Flexibility to adapt to a variety of engagement types, working hours and work environments.

Preferred technical & functional skills

• Experience in IFRS, FRS 102 & Public sector will be an added advantage
• Recognizing the developmental requirements of team members and set goals to achieve them
• Proficiency/Working knowledge of Adobe Professional would be an added advantage
• Strong critical thinking, analytical and decision-making skills

Educational qualifications

• Professional Chartered Accountancy qualification (e.g. ICAI or ACCA)

Work experience

• The candidate must have 3 to 4 years of relevant post qualification experience in a similar role, preferably with a Big 4 firm