Job Title: Audit Manager
Location: Beaconsfield
Experience level: Qualified
Position Type: Permanent
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
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Imagine a place where you are supported to continually expand your knowledge and skills, whilst gaining recognition for your hands-on work with interesting and high calibre clients. That’s Rouse – a collaborative, encouraging workplace, where our culture is driven by our four core values of Respect, Integrity, Care and Excellence which are integral and play a part in everything we do.
About Rouse
With a history spanning over a century, we’re an independent, well-established firm of over 90 team members with a proven track record of delivering high quality financial solutions for our clients and proudly featuring in the top 100 UK accountancy firms.
We recognise that our strength lies in our people, therefore, our focus is to invest in our greatest asset, our staff, creating an impressive team across all sectors of accounting.
Whilst we are devoted to providing a first-class service to our clients, you will find we are not your everyday accountants, we have no formal dress code; we’re creative, forward-thinkers, who love to explore advances in technology and new ways to help clients.
Our clients are based across the UK, and as members of Praxity, the largest alliance of accounting firms in the world, it’s quite likely that you will also be working with international clients – perhaps giving your career a steppingstone into new directions.
We are proud to offer best-in-class learning and development programmes, career progression opportunities, job recognition, wellness initiatives and flexible working to suit your work/life balance.
About you
As an Audit Manager, you will be working within a supportive environment where you will be encouraged to develop and progress. Your individual efforts and contributions are recognised and rewarded, bringing further opportunities for career development and progression.
The role
In this role you will work with the team to ensure timely and accurate delivery of technical audit and other accountancy services. This will include:
- Manage and develop a portfolio of clients developing a good relationship with them, understanding their requirements, monitoring work-in progress against internal budgets and agreed fees, billing and keeping the client partner aware of status and issues.
- Ensuring assignments are fully completed before being passed to Partners.
- Planning the assignment efficiently to meet budgets and recoverability of fees required and communicate to the team.
- Managing the allocation of work to other team members.
- Completing regular review of work to ensure compliance standards are met.
- Interact fully with clients in conjunction with senior audit team ensuring they are kept informed of progress.
Essential Skills and Experience
The ideal person for this role will be well organised and able to work to agreed timescales, whilst having the ability to actively engage with clients. You will:
- A minimum 6 years’ accountancy practice experience in Audit and/or Accounts.
- ACA or ACCA qualified.
- Have effective use of IT including Excel, audit and accounts packages (CCH Accounts Production, CCH Audit Automation), Outlook, CCH Practice Management.
- Undertake CPD in accordance with Institute and Rouse Partners requirements and maintain up to date CPD record.
- Maintain high professional standards of conduct and practice.
- Apply knowledge of Rouse Partners, industry, markets and core client base, identifying additional services to clients in your portfolio.
- Be aware of relevant financial targets and constraints and actively assists senior management in achieving these, keeping Partner/client informed of progress and potential problems including actual vs. budget.
- Convert options into recommendations and resolutions to exceed client expectations where possible.
Views from our team
“The training and development on offer made Rouse the perfect place to develop my career. Beaconsfield is also a great location to work.”
“I get to work closely with the Partners, across varied and interesting clients. I chose Rouse as I didn’t want to be a small fish in a big pond at a larger firm.”