COMPLETE Financial Services - Audit Quality Support Team - Senior Manager - UK Wide

Job Description

The opportunity

Our Audit Quality Support team (AQST) plays a vital role in supporting our Audit Quality Programme. As an AQST Senior Manager you will contribute to a growing team supporting our most complex and challenging audits through real-time coaching and reviews to promote consistent high-quality audits. We are looking for senior managers to help run UK FS AQST through a combination of leadership and development of the programme and performance of reviews.

Your key responsibilities

• Work with the FS audit quality leader, quality leadership partners from each industry, and UKI AQST leader to run the FS AQST programme, including:
  • Performing annual risk assessment of FS PIE audit engagements in order to determine those in scope for AQST or other review support programmes
  • Allocating appropriate reviewers to selected engagements
  • Providing instructions, training, and coaching to UK Senior managers nominated to perform AQST reviews
  • Reporting status and results of reviews to both the UK Audit Quality Board and Business Unit Leaders
  • Escalating thematic issues to audit quality leadership
  • Ensuring that inspection findings are disseminated to teams in a timely manner through our coaching programmes
• Provide direct coaching and review support to the highest-profile engagements selected for AQST review within your industry expertise
  • Perform risk-based scoping through engagement with the audit team
  • Challenge the effectiveness and articulation of the audit strategy
  • Review the execution of the audit work and identify areas for improvement
• Source, supervise, train, and deploy a dedicated team of offshore audit quality managers trained to support UK audit quality objectives.
• Supervise the FS UK team administrating EY’s Global Key Findings Review programme
• Assist with deployment of other UK quality initiatives including, among others, standardisation and digital implementation.

Skills and attributes for success

• For administering the AQST programme:
  • Proactive communicator, quick to engage with audit quality leadership
  • Innovative mindset, focussed on ways to improve delivery of AQST reviews and provide the most value to audit teams
  • Ability to lead and influence peers, and to lead teams remotely
  • Strict and organised project manager
• For administering reviews
  • Gold standard technical audit skills and dedication to staying up to date with technical updates and inspection findings
  • Flexible working style to adapt to the different teams you will be working with
  • Courage to challenge the effectiveness and articulation of the audit strategy by audit teams
  • Attention to detail in review of the execution of audit work and identification of areas for improvement
  • Proactive communication and deadline management, both with the audit team and audit quality leadership

 To qualify for the role you must have

• ACA/ CA/ ACCA (ICAEW, ICAS, Irish Institute or equivalent international qualification
• Strong project management and technical (auditing) skills
• Significant experience with large public & complex audits
• Strong focus on and passion for audit quality and coaching/reviewing teams