Azets is a leading firm of Accountants and Business Advisers operating across the UK, Ireland and the Nordics. We have a wide network of employees and an abundance of inspiring opportunities to join one of our many offices!
We are a top-ten accountancy firm in the UK and the largest SME practice.
Client Focus:
- Delivers audit work professionally and exhibits demonstrable knowledge of GIAS
- Ensures clients are kept informed of audit progress and any issues arising.
- Is able to respond to client queries relating to role with minimal input from others.
- Demonstrates a clear understanding of clients’ business, objectives, challenges and risks sufficient to brief more junior colleagues on assignment and direct work accordingly.
- Demonstrates a broad understanding of client/customer market and environment and understands the importance of driving new business.
- Manages flexible working of self and assistants based around client needs and business deadlines.
- Gain experience of winning new work through input into the preparation of proposals, fee quotes and attending client tenders.
- Attends Audit Committee/client meetings with support from Manager/ Director/Partner but is confident in leading discussions / inspiring confidence in client-side contacts.
Technical Excellence:
- Committed to developing knowledge in specialist area and actively communicates/feeds back salient areas to team members.
- Delivers departmental training and development initiatives, as aligned with team development needs/feedback from clients and Managers/Partners/Directors.
- Maintains up to date technical knowledge and awareness of wider business advisory opportunities through technical reading and attending in-house departmental seminars, to identify potential issues and emerging opportunities in own and other service areas of the business.
Commitment:
- Identifies skills and knowledge gaps in department and actively makes suggestions to resolve.
- Takes responsibility for actioning departmental development initiatives.
- Demonstrates real enthusiasm and motivation at work and engages in team/corporate activities beyond core role.
- Identifies, agrees, and delivers personally challenging objectives.
Attention to Detail:
- Demonstrates ability to deliver multiple ongoing assignments without compromising on quality or timescales, giving appropriate and constructive feedback to the team throughout.
- Takes the lead in ensuring output of wider team is of the highest quality and presentation through providing appropriate feedback and training.
Decision Making:
- Demonstrates a commitment to developing team members by assigning challenging work, ensuring to give support where appropriate and necessary.
- Empowers team members to think independently.
- Can make rational and informed decisions even if they may appear unpopular.
- Is able to process constructive feedback and take ownership of their mistakes and performance.
Efficiency:
- Challenges existing approaches and offers alternative suggestions to deliver work more efficiently without compromising the quality of output.
- Champions modern technologies aimed at improving quality and efficiency and takes the lead in departmental implementation of them.
Living Our Values:
- Consistently ‘lives our values’ - demonstrates expected behaviours in line with our company values
Technical skills:
- Builds personal profile both within the firm and externally.
- Contributes to tenders/develops and executes own BD plan.
- Identifies opportunities to deliver work more efficiently through e.g. delegation of tasks to Seniors, whilst still retaining responsibility for quality of outputs.
Essential experience:
- Professional accountancy qualification and/or Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) qualification.
- Experienced in delivering audit reviews and producing high-quality client outputs.
- Strong understanding of risk and controls.
- Working knowledge of Global Internal Audit Standards and their application
- Proven track record of building and maintaining client relationships.
- Experience in coaching and management of junior staff at all stages of the audit process.
What's in it for you?
Our benefits include hybrid & flexible working, birthday leave, professional subscription and much more. You can find out more about how we reward our colleagues - Careers | Rewards And Benefits | Azets UK
Interested in hearing more about Life at Azets
#LI-SW1
Job Reference: AZ05272
