| Description: | For: Audit & Accounts Executive
Meyer Scott Ref: VR/03845
Audit & Accounts Executive – Peterborough - £28,000 - £32,000 pa
Our client is seeking a fully qualified accountant to oversee audit work, accounts preparation jobs and production of corporate tax computations, ensuring deadlines are met and compliance with necessary regulations. You'll be completing the job as far as possible before passing to the Manager for review.
This work is across a range of sectors including Agriculture and rural business, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Engineering, Not for Profit, Property and Construction.
Audit
• Produce a detailed audit planning memorandum, including details of any potential difficulties that may have been encountered during previous audits and ensure correct tests are applied to produce sufficient audit evidence, discuss with Partner/Director/Senior Manager/Manager
• Plan how testing work should be allocated amongst junior team members
• Complete audits in accordance with the company audit procedures, with assistance from more senior members of staff
• Monitor the progress of jobs, ensure that budgets are met, address any problems that are encountered to ensure that the audit is finished within budget and timeframe
• Check and supervise the work of more junior staff both on site and in office and complete any sections as necessary
• Sign off audit sections, address any problems and/or queries and complete the file before passing it on to the Partner/Director/Senior Manager/Manager for review.
Audit and accounts jobs
• Ensure all hours worked on any client are recorded correctly, enabling a true reflection of the profitability of the job to be shown
• Allocate sections to junior staff and brief on what is expected of them
• Answer queries from juniors throughout the work
• Complete analysis of items for tax
• Completion of a job – tasks would include:
- filling in required forms
- commentary on accounts / Produce a short summary on the contents of the accounts before passing to the Partner/Director/Senior Manager/Manager as appropriate
- summary of outstanding points to managers
- final analytical review
- cast accounts, check referencing
- ensure lead schedules agree to accounts
- pass file to Manager for review
- clear all review points
- make any amendments necessary.
• Draft some client letters.
Accounts
• Check the work completed, produce review points for junior staff, monitor clearance of queries to ensure it is presentational and technically correct
• Calculate more complex areas for sets of accounts completed by junior members of staff (where appropriate)
• Prepare accounts from records and produce set of financial statements with a final pack for the client, to be reviewed by manager.
Other work
• Ability to apply day to day compliance skills and apply the knowledge to ad hoc projects.
Qualifications:
• ACA or ACCA, fully qualified or close to fully qualified with practice experience
• Demonstrable experience leading external audits from planning to completion
• Excellent accounts preparation skills
• Computer experience – Excel, Word and ideally CaseWare and tax software, Sage, Xero or other bookkeeping software
• Previous experience of leading junior members of staff (18 months plus experience)
• Good up-to-date technical knowledge including recent developments in accounting standards
• Communication – oral and written, ability to deal with variety of people in different environments
• Organised – ability to deal with a variety of tasks
• Client focused
• Commercially aware
• Team building skills
• Problem solving skills
• Ability to work well under pressure and manage deadlines
• Be positive and committed to the company in dealings with both clients and staff.
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