Audit Quality - Audit Stream Risk and Reporting Director

• Lead in resolving complex audit stream risk and reporting issues that emerge, ensuring a detailed review of audit files is performed, when required, by the senior managers in the team to establish the nature and extent of the risk bringing in specialist support from the wider AQD team as required
• Proactively identify wider risk issues and prevent such risks from crystalising by implementing policies, guidance and training to the audit stream
• Proactively reviewing the policies and guidance around audit reporting
• Providing oversight and technical support on complex audit reporting issues
• Support the Audit Stream Risk and Reporting partner on reviewing and monitoring the highest risk audit engagements, known as the Close Monitored List
• Provide oversight on other audit risks and contractual matters arising from the Audit Stream and ensuring they are satisfactorily resolved
• Lead on projects to ensure that all processes and controls related to audit stream risk and reporting are correctly implemented to support a System of Quality Management, ensuring that any remediation points are addressed
• Support RIs experiencing a challenging inspection or regulatory process
• Contribute to audit quality initiatives led by the wider Audit Quality Improvement Team

• ACA or similar professional accountancy qualification
• Recent audit experience at senior manager or director level working on PIE and listed audit engagements or performed an internal role to at least senior manager level on PIE and listed entities
• Excellent practical and technical audit risk experience
• Experience of non standard audit reports at either a practical or technical level
• Ability to be objective and sceptical and to have confidence to challenge more senior members of an audit team
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a small team and able to use own initiative
• Attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including an ability to communicate difficult messages
• Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own work

An awareness of the UK regulatory requirements is useful but not essential

• Health and wellness programmes
• Pension plan
• Private medical
• Income protection plan
• Holidays
• Bike to work scheme