Senior Business Adviser - Audit - Great Yarmouth

PKF is one of the UK's leading firms of accountants and business advisers, which specialises in advising the management of developing private and public businesses. We pride ourselves on creating and sustaining supportive relationships where objective and timely advice enables our clients to thrive and develop.

Assurance & Advisory

Our Assurance & Advisory team provides an expert service to many types of organisations across the region. Our clients range from small owner-managed businesses to listed companies, partnerships, charities and government bodies; and we cover a broad spectrum of industries and sectors.

Purpose of the role:

Working closely with both senior and junior management, your role will be to plan and lead your assigned portfolio of audit clients under management supervision. You will have good audit knowledge with an all round experience of practise work including Taxation and working with family companies.

Principal duties:

• Assists in the planning, execution and finalisation of all areas of the audit assignment for manager or partner review, seeking input for areas of concern and judgement; including carrying out briefings and review meetings.
• Maintaining key client relationships ensuring queries are dealt with and deadlines met.
• Identifies risk matters and raises with a manager and/or partner, while exercising judgement within agreed parameters;
• Produce work for the Manager and/or Partner review clearly highlighting issues and providing potential solutions to issues identified;
• Identify and understand client needs, suggest potential solutions on technical matters and communicate and agree client needs and potential solutions with managers;
• Active engagement with senior client staff in order to gain a good understanding of their business and ensure the efficient execution of the audit;
• Take primary responsibility for monitoring progress against budget, and when the actual differs from the budget then gain a full understanding for the Manager;
  Supervise, coach and develop junior members of staff within teams, on client premises and in the office, delegating where appropriate.
• Ensure compliance with internal (audit methodology and risk management) and external (regulatory) requirements;
  Participate in group, stream and firm wide activities, including business development including cross selling of services and attending networking events.
• Providing feedback on the work on less experienced staff and contributing to the appraisal process.

Education / Qualifications:

Qualified accountant ~ CA/ ACA/ ACCA with post-qualification experience in a practice environment.

Experience / Skills:

• Proven technical experience with experience of offering a full range of successful advisory services to owner-managed business clients in a supervisory role.
• Experienced user of audit software and IT systems.
• Experience of supervising and coaching junior members of staff on site;
• Good working knowledge of Companies Act, FRS's, ISA's, SSAP's, FRSSE and IFRS.
• The successful candidate will have a confident manner, an enthusiastic approach and demonstrate commercial awareness.
• A broad range of audit experience.
• Good interpersonal, communication skills including letter/ report writing and telephone skills.
• Must be computer literate with experience of IT packages including MS Excel, Word.
• Able to work either independently or as part of a team.
• The candidate must have the ability to deal with a variety of cases in a methodical manner.
• A flexible and adaptable approach is essential..