New Audit Quality Review & Support Team Manager (Financial Services) working with a rapidly growing Financial Advisory function. You will help teams deliver high quality audits by performing targeted reviews on public interest entities (PIEs), challenging audits throughout the audit cycle, providing coaching and support to promote consistent high quality audits.
Key Responsibilities:
• Perform in-flight reviews of audits at every stage from planning through to completion and reporting, identifying ways to improve audit quality
• Determine areas of focus for reviews, liaising with the QRST Director to agree approach
• Proactively discuss audit quality matters with teams and help develop strategies to deliver high audit quality audits
• Challenge the execution of audit procedures and documentation of audit work performed
• Support and coach teams to implement identified improvements in audit quality
• Identify issues and matters where firm-wide action may be required, in conjunction with the Director of the QRST
• Contribute to the development of training and guidance on performing high quality audits
• Provide clear and practical solutions to ad hoc audit quality queries
• Get the opportunity to contribute to the wider audit quality agenda by getting involved in a variety of audit quality initiatives lead by the wider Audit Quality Improvement team
Key Skills and Experience:
• A Keen interest in Audit Quality – split roles will be considered
• Excellent practical and technical auditing experience particularly on more complex audits
• Good working knowledge of IFRS, ideally IFRS 9 or IFRS 17
• Desirable: Experience of performing audit quality reviews (pre or post audit opinion)
