Key

responsibilities:

Client Contact

• Regular discussions with the client to confirm progress, identify solutions to any hurdles and ensure reasonable expectations are met.
• Establish relationship with key contacts at the client.
• Identify and highlight any opportunities for company apparent from work undertaken.

Staff management

• Assist and perform training of junior staff.
• Plan, assign, monitor and review work of junior staff.
• Complete assessment forms of audit team.
• Monitor adherence to budget.

Technical

• Assist with the planning of audits and accounting assignments.
• Perform work in accordance with company's audit and assignment procedures.
• Ensure all areas of the work are completed with any exceptions to this being agreed with the manager.
• Prepare draft accounts/report and completion memo (including identification of control weaknesses or areas of improvement) for review by manager.
• Understand and appreciate key commercial aspects of the clients business.

Organisational

• Provide regular progress reports to the manager.
• Identify and discuss with manager issues/problems and agree and complete appropriate actions.
• Ensure deadlines met.
• Be able to work on several different assignments at one time.

Staff development

• Attendance on courses.
• Technical reading.
• Attend client meetings

Key Competencies:

• Judgement: be able to take a situation and reach a suitable conclusion based on information available.
• Planning and organising: demonstrable ability to organise self and others, such that you can work on several different assignments at one time.
• Customer focus: develop relationship and gain confidence of client.
• Commercial awareness: awareness of the key business drivers and the commercial pressures affecting the client.
• Teamwork: ability to optimise the team's performance and fulfil the needs of each team member in terms of personal and professional development.
• Technical expertise: technically competent.
• Communication Skills: Strong communication skills, both internally and directly with clients.

Candidate Profile

Education/Qualifications:

• ACA/ACCA qualified or equivalent

Key Experience/Skills:

• Demonstrable audit and accounts experience gained within a professional services firm.
• Strong communication skills, both internally and directly with clients.
• Demonstrable experience of supervising others and delegation of work.
• Demonstrable ability to organise self and others, such that you can work on several different assignments at one time.

Randstad Financial & Professional encourage applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Randstad Financial & Professional acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003