Senior Manager, External Audit, Financial Services, Audit & Assurance

Job description

Connect to your Industry

The National Accounting and Assurance (NAA) community is an overarching identity for a number of teams, including Accounting and Corporate reporting, the Quality Corporate Reporting Centre of Excellence (QCR), Audit & Assurance Excellence, Audit Quality & Risk Management, Inspections, Risk and Regulation, Regulatory Compliance and Learning, EQCR & PSR and client service technology team. In NAA we are dedicated to supporting audit teams in delivering excellent service and maintaining audit quality.

We are based in London and Cardiff but serve the whole firm nationally. The team is made up of a mixture of permanent staff and secondees from the audit service line.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete.

To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day.

How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

Deloitte's Portfolio Financial Services business offers the opportunity to work with dynamic, entrepreneurial and high growth financial services businesses.

The breadth and quality of finance businesses in Jersey provides world class career development opportunities: All the leading banks found in London have headquarters on the island.

Jersey is also home to thriving investment management alternatives industries and is recognised as a European centre for private equity and real estate. It's certainly a great environment for high achievers to build their career in Audit & Assurance.

Our current portfolio includes a range of well-known financial services clients as well as those that we expect to become future household names. We work with leading investment managers of Private Equity, Venture Capital, Real Estate and Debt Funds and our expertise in these areas means there is a fantastic opportunity to get involved in the auditing the investment valuations. We also work with many of the leading asset servicing businesses; with these Fund Administration and Trust Company Businesses offering a great opportunity to get involved in the audits of complex multi-component groups who are dynamic and acquisitive.

Whilst we are an office of Deloitte UK, we work particularly closely with the Guernsey, IOM and Gibraltar offices as an Islands Practice, with a team of 200 people and 8 partners focusing on the offshore financial services sector.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Our Jersey office in the Channel Islands is the most southerly in the British Isles. Beautiful beaches around every corner, a mild climate, outstanding landscapes well suited to outdoor sports and with no commute:

It really is a fantastic place to live and work. Our mentor and buddy system will help you settle in quickly and you'll find all the facilities you'd expect from a prominent global firm, along with great harbour views! We make sure that the work you do, the support you get and experience you gain will leave you in no doubt as to how you want to take your career forward.

Our bright and contemporary open-plan offices make it easy to build collaborative and inspiring relationships between teams and different parts of the business. Our staff have diverse backgrounds and nationalities creating an exciting and inspiring culture where we celebrate and thrive on our differences. It's another great strength that helps staff build the skills and knowledge they need to work effectively in a global business world.

As a key member of our senior team, reporting to a Director/Partner, you will have responsibility for:

• Facilitating the completion of high quality audit field work in accordance with ISAs

• Effective management of audit process with appropriate accounting technical matters

• Ensuring completion of audits/projects within agreed timescales

• Budgeting time allocation to assignments and explaining variances from budget

• Drafting final documents for review by partner

• Reviewing accounts in accordance with UK GAAP/IFRS

• Development and coaching of junior members of staff#

• Active involvement in business development and tendering for new clients

• Managing client relationships

• Involvement in wider office practice management roles

• Representing Deloitte in the marketplace through presenting at seminars and other networking events

• Managing diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Relevant professional qualification, e.g. ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA, ICAS or equivalent

• Experience in the financial services sector, either as an external auditor, working within a financial services institution, in an advisory or business consulting capacity to similar organisations, or in the regulation of such institutions

• Experience in financial services accounting under IFRS and UK GAAP or equivalent

• Knowledge of external or internal auditing techniques (including risk assessment, audit scoping, devising audit approach, controls testing, substantive testing)

• Strong interpersonal skills, including oral/written communication, and team management

• Experience in developing project deliverables (proposals, reports, presentations) to a high standard

• Highly motivated approach, with a proven ability to work on own initiative within a challenging work environment

• Good team playing skills with good organisation, planning and coaching skills

In return, you will get new challenges in a dynamic, supportive and fast-growing department at an exciting time in the evolution of the audit industry as we also develop the audit of the future. We are looking for individuals with ambitions to progress their career to become signing Directors.

You will have access to market leading training and development tailored to your personal interests and ambitions. We will provide you with the opportunities, skills and knowledge to progress, working with our people and clients.

Connect to your business - Audit & Assurance

We know it's not just about the numbers. Often, we let the technology take care of those.

It's about the creative and collective thinking or our people. That's where the true insight is found. We're redefining the future of audit. Come join us.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"The progression at Deloitte is steady and I've always felt in control of my own career path. You can learn something new here every day which I really enjoy."

• Ali, Audit and Assurance

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in Jersey with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy.

Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you.

Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day.

Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see.

You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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