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Audit Manager - Banking & Capital Markets - Manchester

Recruiter
PwC
Location
Greater Manchester
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
8 Nov 2019

Job Details

The passion of our people, combined with access to the latest technology, helps us deliver the highest quality audits and build trust in society. We pride ourselves on our global reputation as a trusted place to do business, whilst giving our people access to the best opportunities and lots of variety through your home team, internal secondments and international assignments.

A career in our Financial Services Audit practice, within External Audit services, will provide you with the opportunity to provide a range of Assurance services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large entities. Our clients are often well known brands and many have broad international reach. We focus on using the latest technology to reduce the level of manual testing ensuring you’ll focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance and the reliability of our clients’ information.

Our team helps financial organisations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business. Our clients cover industries within banking and capital markets, private equity, insurance, and consumer finance. While many of the rules of business have changed, the fundamentals haven’t. You’ll work alongside senior members of the client’s management team in planning the audit process from beginning to end, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and fair presentation of our client’s information.

ResponsibilitiesAs an Audit Manager you'll play a vital role in the delivery of high-quality audits to our clients. Your role will include:

  • Overseeing a portfolio of external audit clients where you will be responsible for the day-to-day management, client liaison and technical issues management

  • Building and maintaining strong relationships with existing clients and understanding opportunities to assist with their issues

  • Reporting directly to the Assurance Partner and Director and having a number of direct team members report to you

  • Responsibility for the coaching and career development of the team members reporting directly to you

  • Assisting with managing the staffing of the job, the financial performance and ensuring that key deadlines are met

  • Business development activities such as building relationships with target clients or involvement in pitch situations

  • Being a key contact throughout the year for our clients, who range from FTSE-listed businesses through to owner-managed businesses in the infancy of their life cycle

  • Build strong relationships with other specialist teams within PwC to ensure that a full service offering can be provided to our clients

  • Actively taking part in office-wide initiatives and teams, contributing to a strong overall team morale

  • Key skills and experience requiredAll of our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships. As a Manager you’ll be required to demonstrate

  • A suitable qualification (e.g ACA, ACCA, or similar)

  • Experience in auditing large organisations

  • Experience of IFRS, UK GAAP (including FRS 101/102) and international standards on auditing

  • Teamworking skills

  • A proven track record of establishing client relationships

  • The ability to work on your own initiative

  • A desire for continuous improvement

  • Highly developed listening and questioning techniques

  • An ability to work to tight timelines and manage well under pressure

  • Experience of coaching, supervising and managing staff members

  • Company

    Your career is just that; yours. You choose it. You live it. You make it happen. To get the best from it, you need the best opportunities. That’s why opportunities are at the heart of a career with us. Opportunities to grow as an individual, to build lasting relationships and make an impact in a place where people, quality and value mean everything.

    What we do

    We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

    Where you could work:

    • Assurance
    • Consulting
    • Financial Advisory/ Deals
    • Human Resource Services
    • Internal Firm Services
    • PwC Legal LLP
    • Tax
    • Technology

    As a leading professional services network we’re confident we can offer outstanding training and development opportunities, exposure to multi-disciplinary teams, and support from industry-leading experts. Discover where your talent could take you and join an employer that focused on helping you reach your full potential.

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