The High Wycombe office are looking for an experienced, professional and enthusiastic Audit Senior, to join our audit and accounts team. Applicants must be ACA or ACCA qualified/finalist and be able to display a commercially minded and proactive approach to client work.
The role
This is a varied and challenging role which will include exposure to a wide range of clients, often working to tight deadlines.
The key role is to deliver complete Audit and Accounts files to managers, to include:
- Full planning; identifying risks, setting materiality and designing appropriate tests
- Leading a team on audit fieldwork, with a focus on development of the team and delivering a positive client experience
- Detailed audit work, taking ownership for decisions and conclusions made through professional judgment
- Good understanding of audit requirements, ensuring professional scepticism is applied and appropriate documentation made
- Developing a rapport with clients to deliver effective audits and accounts
- File completion, including summarising key audit findings for the partner’s attention.
- Regular and effective communication with manager and team throughout audit process
- Responsibility for budgetary control and keeping manager informed thereon
- Liaising with other Saffery teams, such as corporate tax, to ensure we provide a joined-up service
- Working across client sites, as well as in the office and from home.
The team
The Accounts and Audit Team within the High Wycombe office comprises 18 members of staff, from accounts assistants and audit trainees up to senior manager. The team work with all partners within the office, and firmwide, on a variety of tasks including audits, outsourcing and management accounts, VAT returns, statutory accounts preparation and ad-hoc client queries.
There is a real focus on development within the team, with the aim being for staff to develop their careers long term within the firm. Alongside a commitment to client service, and excellence in their work, there is a willingness to help each other and succeed as a team.
The office
We offer accounting, audit and assurance, business advisory, tax and VAT services, acting for businesses and individuals both in the UK and internationally. The portfolio of clients held within the office range from large corporate groups to landed estates, with key specialisms in owner managed businesses, property, private wealth and professional practices. Our staff work regularly and closely with their colleagues in our national offices to provide a seamless service to clients, wherever they are located.
Our High Wycombe office is home to 3 partners and 36 members of staff. We benefit from a small office feel, within the larger Saffery family of around 900 people.
You
- ACA/ACCA qualified/finalist
- Audit experience, including planning and completion
- Proven track record in accounts preparation
- Excellent communication skills
- Client focused with commercial awareness
- Computer experience: Excel, Word and ideally CCH accounts and audit automation
- Good technical knowledge including recent developments in accounting and auditing standards
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to work on multiple jobs at once
- Ability to work in a pressured environment
- Proactive nature and enjoys working as part of a team.
Although not a pre-requisite, it would be beneficial if you had:
- Driving licence and ability to travel to client premises
- Experience of consolidated accounts.
Salary/Benefits
- A 35-hour working week with a hybrid working policy, with the flexibility to work from home for up to three days per week (our core hours are 10-4)
- Excellent benefits including; contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave, Life Assurance cover and great flexible benefits and family friendly policies
- Eligibility for the firm’s Profit-Sharing Plan. Paid in December
- Paid overtime or time off in lieu.
About us
Saffery LLP is an adviser to individuals and businesses across a range of sectors, providing market-leading accountancy, audit, business advisory, tax and VAT services. Founded in 1855, we are the UK’s 15th largest accountancy firm.
When you work with us at Saffery, you work with people who know your name, not just a job title. We’re a place shaped by friendly, intelligent people who are individually excellent and collectively exceptional. We’re committed to our clients, but also to our greatest asset – our people.
As a proud member of Nexia, a leading, international network of independent accounting and consulting firms, we’ve got access to local insight on a global scale.
Diversity & Inclusion
Equality, diversity and inclusion is a top priority for us. With our ED&I strategy, Everyone Belongs, we are building on our positive work culture and implementing initiatives to improve diversity and strengthen our equitable culture of inclusion, led from the top.
We hope you will apply to us, whatever your background, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability or neurodivergence, because individual differences equal collective strength. Built on values of excellence, integrity, enthusiasm and collegiality, Saffery is where Potential meets Personal.