Senior Audit Executive - #2092638

An accountancy practice based in central Bristol is currently recruiting an Senior Auditor to join their team

The firm actively encourage individuals to challenge and develop themselves within a supportive working environment and be rewarded for doing so.

The client work is held to a high level and is based on the development of lasting relationships and great advice.

Duties will include:

• Working independently within the team, managing and undertaking all aspects of entire audit engagements, including planning, performing and completing statutory audits of financial statements
• Clients include individual companies and groups, across a broad range of industries, and covering smaller owner managed businesses up to £100m turnover businesses
• Maintain and develop client relationships while working on site, and working closely with client management teams to gather information, resolve problems and make recommendations for business and process improvements, and becoming key point of contact and trusted advisor to clients
• Control and management of client and reporting deadlines, assignment budgeting, including liaison with other departments and members of staff
• Involvement to include statutory audits, as well as non-statutory audit, grant claim reporting and other compliance engagements, including companies, charities, pension schemes and societies
• Undertake non-audit financial statement preparation assignments
• Maintain and develop audit compliance procedures, audit manuals and involvement in internal compliance reviews of audit files, enabling constant improvement to audit quality and efficiency

The successful candidate will have a minimum of 2-3 years’ experience of working within audit and proficient with Microsoft Office products

• Experience of working across a broad range of industries, and experience of industry specific accounting practices and treatments would be useful
• Experience of other accounting functions, such as VAT reporting, management accounting and a sound understanding of corporation tax, would also be beneficial.