ACCA/ACA Qualified candidate, 3-4 years PQE with experience of IFRS as well as UK GAAP, consolidations and consolidated financial statements and managing/leading small teams would be preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

∙Assist with the management of basic WIP, billing and fee-recovery in order to achieve targets and cash collection where applicable
Assist with the management and delegation of tasks for junior members of staff by providing guidance, training, motivational and directional feedback
Delegates appropriately ensuring clear instructions are given and objectives and deadlines set
Ensure good relationships with both internal and external clients
Assist and manage the expectations of partners and other key staff across the practice to ensure work and projects are completed within reasonable and realistic timeframes ∙ Highlight any problems, work or project delivery issues to partners and key staff
Manages general client problems that occur, liaising with managers and partners on more complex issues and supports team members with basic client concerns
Ensure self and assist with ensuring wider team is compliant with all practice management activities
Begin to play an active role in recruitment and any other HR activities required
Act as a role model for team members, providing advice, guidance and constructive feedback
Liaise with other departments to ensure seamless delivery of work and projects
Develop and maintain a strong level of technical knowledge through appropriate reading and courses, and to fulfil the professional bodies' CPD requirements where appropriate
Carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job

Specific Role Responsibilities:

Fully responsible for audit jobs from start to finish - including planning, fieldwork and finalisation - and reporting directly to a partner on smaller assignments
Planning process for jobs to include materiality determination, identification of risks, design of fieldwork tests applicable to the specific client, elements of timetabling and budgeting
Allocate work to junior staff and brief them on the work to be completed, providing guidance to junior staff and be available to answer queries throughout the audit process
Review the work completed by junior staff including providing feedback to aid their development
Monitoring the progress of audits including performance versus budget, identification of any problem areas encountered and keeping management information of progress
Review the statutory account preparation for audit clients, including review of disclosure
For clients that are groups of companies, supervise the preparation of the required consolidation schedules including calculation of eliminating journals and preparation of group financials

Randstad Financial & Professional encourage applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Randstad Financial & Professional acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003