Audit Assistant Manager - Birmingham
KPMG International Cooperative, Birmingham
Audit Assistant Manager - Birmingham
Salary Not Specified
KPMG International Cooperative, Birmingham
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted 3 days ago, 9 Nov | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 1b34441d8c694600b0fce3110b0376b6
Full Job Description
As an Assistant Manager, you will be responsible for the day-to-day high-quality delivery of audit engagements from planning through to completion. Alongside audit delivery work, you will also supervise junior team members, and provide coaching and development to help them reach their full potential. This will include planning and reviewing their work to ensure the work quality is to a high standard. You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of stakeholder relationships at audited entities and can expect to work with senior level staff. You will work closely with the Audit Manager, Senior Manager, Director and Partner, ensuring that they are kept up to date with progress, involving them on a timely basis in all phases of the audit and when issues arise.
Area of focus include:
Conducting the planning and execution of audit fieldwork.
Supervising and coaching junior members of staff to help them realise their full potential.
Reviewing the audit work performed by junior team members.
Project managing the audit delivery, including timelines, team briefings, team supervision, delivery of audit work, and reviews by more senior team members, including Directors and Partners.
Keeping Managers, Senior Managers, Directors and Partners up to date with progress throughout the course of the assignment.
Preparing reports to senior management from audited entities and audit committees.
Building relationships with the engagement and audited entity staff.
Being the day-to-day point of contact for the audited entity.
Technical core competencies required for the role:
Our Global Audit & Assurance Technical core competencies provide clarity and consistency of expectations to ensure the minimum audit technical requirements are being met by relevant grades to drive Audit Quality, which is fundamental to achieving our ambition to become the most trusted and trustworthy firm. The relevant competencies for this role are:
Technical knowledge: Understands relevant technical accounting and financial reporting standards, regulations and accounting literature. Exhibits and stays current on appropriate industry and specialised knowledge, and leverages KPMG methodologies (including ESG Assurance, where relevant).
Risk assessment: Prepares for the audit execution design with a focus on risk assessment
Controls testing: Tests and evaluates internal controls to assess impact on engagement.
Substantive procedures: Executes substantive audit procedures, gathering evidence and forming conclusions that contribute to audit objectives.
Evaluation of audit results: Evaluates evidence from audit procedures to determine if audit objectives were achieved.
Documentation: Completes audit documentation demonstrating an unwavering focus on audit quality.
People & Culture:
Embrace and embed our culture ambition of high challenge, high support which is grounded in Our Values.
Operate with a curious and sceptical mindset ensuring that this is embedded in your everyday work.
Actively lead and embed a coaching culture to get the best out of others in an environment where everyone in the team feels empowered to speak up or challenge where appropriate.
Be accountable, professional and act in the public interest, working for the benefit of shareholders of audited entities and wider society.
Why Audit at KPMG?
Audit is the largest of our UK practices. Some of the world's biggest companies rely on us to provide independent insight, challenge and expertise, so the work we undertake affects investment decisions, inspires confidence in public sector expenditure and supports our economic growth. Today, more than ever in disruptive times, audit is a function needed by society, and in the future, so we can capitalise, and grow. As part of the Audit team, you'll be helping to build the confidence and trust that business and society need to thrive. We want to lead the conversation when it comes to shaping the future of the profession. And given the scale and variety of our audit engagements in both the UK and globally, we are well placed to create change. If you share our commitment to achieving excellence and working to the highest audit standards, are a natural collaborator who values different perspectives and relishes the opportunity to develop and progress -
then KPMG could be the place where you can thrive.
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