Job Description

CharteredPartners is seeking an Audit Senior Manager to manage assurance engagements end-to-end within a practice in London. This is an operational delivery role with day-to-day responsibility for planning, executing and completing audits under International Standards on Auditing (UK). You will be the principal client contact on your engagements, supervise audit teams in the field, and prepare files for Responsible Individual review and sign-off. Specific qualifications, regulatory fluency and technical breadth are detailed in the sections that follow.

Confidential Client. Applying to this position means that you are interested to have an initial confidential discussion about how we can help you to identify and join a new accounting-firm practice. With your authorisation we will exclusively run the entire application and recruitment process for you, keeping you apprised at every step. With over 30 years' combined experience of helping the most talented accounting, audit, tax and advisory professionals to make safe, well-judged moves into rewarding new roles, we have the experience, network and ability to help you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage audit engagements end-to-end under International Standards on Auditing (UK), from planning and risk assessment through fieldwork to completion.
• Serve as the principal day-to-day client contact, coordinating deliverables, resolving queries and managing the audit timetable.
• Supervise, review and develop managers, seniors and trainees on the engagement team.
• Apply FRS 102 and UK-adopted IFRS in practice, reviewing complex areas such as revenue, leases and financial instruments.
• Prepare audit files to the required standard and ready them for Responsible Individual review.
• Draft audit reports, management letters and reporting deliverables for listed and private clients.
• Manage engagement budgets, recovery and billing, escalating issues to the responsible partner.
• Support compliance with the Companies Act 2006 and FRC independence and acceptance procedures.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Membership of the ICAEW or ACCA.
• Strong working knowledge of International Standards on Auditing (UK), FRS 102 and UK-adopted IFRS.
• Several years of external audit experience, including time at manager grade in a practice environment.
• Experience auditing listed and large private entities under the Companies Act 2006.
• Familiarity with FRC reporting and auditor independence requirements.
• Awareness of FCA and PRA considerations for regulated entity audits.
• Proven ability to manage concurrent engagements to deadline and budget.
• Demonstrated supervisory and file-review skills, with a focus on quality.
• Confident written and verbal communication with clients and senior management.
• Sound professional ethics and a clear understanding of auditor independence.

Preferred Experience:

• Big Four or established mid-tier training and post-qualification experience in the UK.
• Exposure to FRC Audit Quality Review inspections and file-level remediation.
• Sector focus in financial services, technology, or consumer and industrial markets.
• Experience with group audits spanning UK and international components.
• Familiarity with SOX and ICFR requirements for US-listed group audits.
• Working familiarity with data-enabled audit tools and analytics.

Compensation:

Competitive package commensurate with seniority and experience, including base, performance-based bonus, long-term incentives and (where applicable) partner-track participation.

Next Steps:

This opportunity is open to candidates holding or eligible for the right to work in the United Kingdom who match the above criteria. Please apply to receive prompt contact from an experienced and specialist accounting-firm recruitment consultant.

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