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Senior Associate Audit London

Recruiter
PwC
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
16 Nov 2019

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Job Details

A career in our Non 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 organisations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business. 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.

Our team helps organisations navigate regulatory complexity while strengthening trust and transparency in their business. 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.
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.

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to

Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Managers and above
Train and lead staff
Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen
Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

About the Team


Our PwC audit business is leading in the marketplace, constantly developing new and innovative ways of working to evolve our working practices, making them more efficient and innovative with a focus on the client experience. We invest heavily in our clients, people and technology.
The London Region team are looking for exceptional qualified senior associates to join our team. We are a fast growing team in audit with a focus on mid tier businesses, helping them to solve important problems. We operate across a wide variety of markets including listed, PE backed, entrepreneurial private businesses and inbound global audits.
We cover a wide variety of clients of differing sizes and complexity and have teams focusing on business services, retail and hospitality, construction and real estate, technology, media and communications as well as energy, mining, utilities and industrial products. As part of the audit team you'll work mainly on audit engagements, however, there are increasing opportunities to get involved with other audit projects such as internal audit, commercial risk and performance audit to give you a greater breadth of experience.

About the Role


You'll have strong technical knowledge and demonstrated leadership and effective team working skills. You’ll be able to operate with diverse teams and be able to work in and adapt to changing environments and circumstances. You should be ACA qualified (or equivalent), have experience of leading audit engagements from start to finish, and be used to working to tight deadlines and handling pressure.

Essential Skills and Experience


An ACA/ACCA qualification or equivalent
Experience of working on IFRS and UK GAAP engagements (experience of other accounting frameworks an advantage)
A flexible approach and passion for delivering exceptional client service
Ability to lead audit engagements from planning to completion
Strong analytical skills and ability to adapt to changing circumstances
Experience of developing teams through coaching
Strong project management and organisational skills
Effective team-working skills
Commitment to continual personal development in both technical and interpersonal skills
Compliance with quality standards, demonstrating professional scepticism and an ability to balance a compliant and efficient audit
An aptitude for embracing and adapting to new technology
An understanding of engagement budgeting and monitoring financial performance
Ability to spot opportunities to add value to clients and work with colleagues in other lines of service to help clients find solutions to the challenges they face
Ability to work to tight timelines and manage well under pressure
Be able to work flexibly in relation to locations and alongside flexible working colleagues

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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