Audit Senior Manager

We are looking to recruit a Senior Manager to join our Audit team.

The Senior Manager will play a key role in ensuring the effective completion of Audit work for designated clients. Responsibilities include coaching and training the audit team as needed, ensuring deadlines and budgets are met, and reviewing the audit file.

Responsibilities

• Planning and managing the effective, professional, and efficient delegation, flow-through, and completion of Audit work for clients.
• Maintaining up-to-date technical knowledge of Audit and Financial Reporting and related matters.
• Providing high-level technical and Audit planning advice to clients.
• Assisting the Audit Partners and Directors with Audit planning work and local reporting.
• Managing and supporting a team of Audit staff to achieve their goals and objectives, ensuring they are developing their skills and capabilities.
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients, contacts, and colleagues.
• Working closely with the audit team to ensure audit work is handled efficiently and effectively from start to finish and is done in accordance with the Firm's Audit policy and other relevant policies and procedures.
• Being the principal contact for larger clients on day-to-day audit matters.
• Liaising with client staff while on the client's premises, building effective relationships with client's staff.
• Building relationships with client staff and acting as an ambassador for the firm

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About you

• Planning and managing the effective, professional, and efficient delegation, flow-through, and completion of Audit work for clients.
• Maintaining up-to-date technical knowledge of Audit and Financial Reporting and related matters.
• Providing high-level technical and Audit planning advice to clients.
• Assisting the Audit Partners and Directors with Audit planning work and local reporting.
• Managing and supporting a team of Audit staff to achieve their goals and objectives, ensuring they are developing their skills and capabilities.
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients, contacts, and colleagues.
• Working closely with the audit team to ensure audit work is handled efficiently and effectively from start to finish and is done in accordance with the Firm's Audit policy and other relevant policies and procedures.
• Being the principal contact for larger clients on day-to-day audit matters.
• Liaising with client staff while on the client's premises, building effective relationships with client's staff.
• Building relationships with client staff and acting as an ambassador for the firm

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Why Johnston Carmichael?

With 14 offices across Scotland and beyond, we're one of the country's leading firms of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers. Working at Johnston Carmichael means working in a team of over 800 sharp minds - each of which is valued and heard. We support our people to ensure they can grow their own way. When it comes to learning, it's your JC path, and you choose what route it takes.

At Johnston Carmichael, we want what's best for our clients, our people, and our communities. You'll be joining a team that's engaged with its local communities and committed to supporting them. Over the last decade, we've raised over £450,000 for charitable causes across Scotland, and we're also Gold Sponsors of the Kiltwalk.

We have a People and Culture Forum that generates ideas for positive change and has several subgroups, including LGBTQIA+ and Gender Equality, which seek to educate and encourage everyone in our firm to be themselves in order to do their best work.

If you value enabling leadership, quality, integrity, and a workplace that prioritizes giving back as much as you put in, then Johnston Carmichael is the firm for you.

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Why audit?

Our vision remains a constant - to be the firm of choice in all our markets. How we get there is what changes year on year.

The role and regulations of audit are transforming, and we need to keep up with this fast pace of change to ensure we provide the assurance and confidence our clients need. Long gone are the stereotypes of the traditional auditor; technology is ever evolving, and us with it. A career in audit at Johnston Carmichael is diverse and challenging, as we continually strive to provide the best service for our clients - more efficiency, greater innovation, deeper insight.

And, with 11 key industry sectors, there's no shortage of variety when it comes to our client base. We're also an independent member firm of Moore Global Network Limited, a global accounting and advisory network of over 30,000 advisers across more than 110 countries, so you'll have the opportunity to work with businesses all over the globe.

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How working for us can work for you:

As a valued member of the Johnston Carmichael team, you'll benefit from a number of employee benefits, including but not exhaustive to; a personal pension scheme, annual leave, access to private healthcare and life assurance, as well as your own personal training and development plan - Your JC Path.

We know that 9-5 office hours in the city aren't for everyone, and part of creating your own JC Path is having the ability to work flexibly. We support a hybrid working model where everyone is a leader of their work and learning. One size doesn't fit all, so let's discuss what might work for you and our firm.

Doing the Right Thing and Standing in Other People's Shoes are two of our core values. We nurture and celebrate individuality at Johnston Carmichael. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all communities.

If you're ready to work in an innovative and forward-thinking firm alongside talented, sharp minds, apply today.

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