Your career in accounting and audit involves gaining valuable experiences from visiting different businesses, seeing and understanding how they operate, reviewing and analysing business performance both financially and operationally.
We genuinely believe that we are well placed to help you achieve this and support you to develop into an experienced Accounts & Audit advisor.
As an Accounts & Audit Senior you get to work on a diverse portfolio of clients across a wide range of industries. You work closely with the Client Manager and are responsible for organising and completing accounts, audit and project tasks.
As a Senior you also get involved in coaching, supporting and developing assistants within the Accounts & Audit team to help the development of the team as a whole.
To give you an insight into the role, here’s a breakdown of what you will be involved in:
Accounts:
- Book and plan in accounts planning briefings
- Confidently prepare the planning documents for an accounts engagement and work with the Client Manager
- Complete an accounts file and forward to the Client Manager
- Prepare the corporation tax pack and pass to the Client Manager
- Provide support and training to our accounts assistants
- Work as part of a senior team who are driven and dedicated to making a difference
- Aid Client Managers in spotting opportunities for our clients
- Have a good commercial understanding and explain what the accounts represent and show
- Build good relationships with clients
- Confidently communicate with clients regarding their records and ask any queries that arise as a result of the accounts preparation process
- Confidently communicate with Client Managers regarding the progress of the assignment
- Confidently prepare a set of accounts which include full disclosure in line with the relevant accounting frameworks
Audit:
- Responsible for working with the Audit Manager and Responsible Individual (RI) to plan the audit
- Build relationships with audit clients and be confident liaising with the client regarding work that needs to be carried out and obtaining information
- Helping plan workflow in order to ensure that all audit work is carried out
- Provide support for audit assistants during the assignment
- Prepare audit work to a good standard, ensuring all audit assertions and risk areas and sufficiently covered
- Be confident in identifying audit errors and issues and knowing how to manage and deal with them
- Communicate frequently with the Audit Managers on progress and audit findings
- Prepare work in line with an agreed time frame
- Prepare the audit completion documents
This is by no means an extensive breakdown, but we hope highlighting the fundamental points will illustrate what you will do here at Mark Holt & Co.
Becoming an Accounts & Audit Senior can be a highly rewarding and fulfilling career choice. In order to develop throughout your career you will need not only the support, but also direction from experienced individuals in our team, whilst having access to a range of technical learning opportunities.
The exciting part to know is that we add value to our clients which means we offer and run a range of special projects. That could be group restructuring, business acquisitions, management buyouts and a lot more. You will be involved in all of these projects for your clients. We want you to gain a broad range of experience with us and we feel giving you this opportunity to balance audit, compliance and special project work will give you an interesting experience to develop your career.
This will provide you with the platform to transition from being an auditor to becoming well-rounded business advisor.
The opportunities for you to grow and develop to become a business advisor are readily available here at Mark Holt & Co if you wish to take your career in that direction. This can be both intellectually stimulating and professionally rewarding, as you become a trusted advisor to your clients and build your reputation as an expert in your field.
An Audit & Accounts Senior is a key role in our team, this is why we’re focused on building on the foundations you will already have, but broadening your knowledge, so that you can become an advisor and grow to become a Manager in the future.
At the Mark Holt & Co Group we are large enough to be able to provide a wide range of interesting and exciting clients together with the audit work associated with them, whilst small enough to care about you and motivated to help you to achieve your desires.
To find out more about the career you can have at Mark Holt & Co get in touch and let’s have a confidential chat.
It can be over the phone or we can meet for a coffee.
Come and join our team and take advantage of our “Joining Bonus”
For every successful candidate who applies for a role with us directly will receive a bonus. That’s right, your bonus will be 10% of your salary, paid after your first 12weeks. No terms, no targets, we just want you and your skills.