Job Description

Our client is seeking to hire audit staff at all levels based in our Oxfordshire location due to their continuing expansion and success in securing new audit clients.

Offering:

• The choice between full- or part-time employment. We can assist your desire to work, for instance, during school hours.
• A position in which you can assist Managers and Directors in providing expert accounting services to clients.
• The capacity to assume ownership of finishing jobs within a broad portfolio offering a variety of services. You'll make sure the task is accurate and completed on time.  Financial reporting, company taxation, individual taxation, and tax planning are just a few of the services that are available to you.
• The chance to oversee trainees and prepare financial records for assessment.
• A competitive wage commensurate with your qualifications and expertise.
• 33 days of vacation time, including holidays (prorated for part-time employees).
• Private medical insurance that, after a trial period, will cover the Vitality Program's perks, enabling you to take charge of your lifestyle and health.
• Support for health and wellbeing from WeCare.
• Flexibility in working hours and hybrid working.
• Pension plan (salary deferral)
• Service-related death (after probation)
• Frequently occurring employee social gatherings and the chance to donate to charitable causes.
• Onsite parking is free.

Our client takes pride in offering the best possible customer service by developing individualised connections with each client that last the duration of their time at work.

As a result, the staff must be: 

• Self-driven, results-oriented, and upbeat.
• Interested in working with various clients in various industry verticals.
• Logical and approach work with an open mind.
• Effective communicators with great written and verbal English skills and the capacity to take notes.
• Mobile and flexible to work at other Company offices and client’s premises when applicable.

In order to always maintain the consistency of the Company’s audit framework, the successful candidate will support Directors with their audit obligations while also providing a professional audit service.

Depending on experience level, the following fundamental duties are included:

• Complete accountability for the risk management procedures included in the audit of difficult clients.
• Effectively planning and sizing audit assignments, allocating audit resources, establishing deadlines, and ensuring that each review is given a thorough and pertinent terms of reference.
• Effectively and efficiently managing and carrying out programmed audit tasks, ensuring that work is done in accordance with deadlines and standards. identifying the main threats to corporate goals, assessing and testing the controls already in place, and figuring out where things may be done better.
• Coordinating the planning and execution of audit assignments with Directors and clients, reviewing findings, emerging hazards, and steps to address identified risks.
• Creating audit reports that adhere to the standards necessary for Directors' reporting.
• Helping to design the policies and practises for the company's audit, risk, and assurance.
• Overseeing more complicated work in this area, managing system development and advisory work, and educating and advising Directors of matters that have consequences for risk or control.
• Create year-end financial reports, including self-assessments and company tax returns. Communicate with clients and offer guidance and information on finances. Support Directors in their interactions with clients and oversee/assist more junior employees as they perform their tasks.

You will have:

• ACCA/ACA qualification, full or partial
• Capable of displaying thorough and current understanding of auditing standards and practises
• Able to interpret any pertinent legislation to clients while being legally compliant.
• Capable of demonstrating a solid working knowledge of accounting systems, such as Sage, QuickBooks, and ideally CCH; 
• Experienced in working with clients in a busy accounting practise