Job details
Proposed designation
Assistant Manager
Role type
Individual contributor.
Reporting to
Manager/Senior Manager
Geo to be supported
United Kingdom
Work timings
9:00am to 5:30pm
Roles & responsibilities
- We are recruiting for a AM in the Audit team. Working as a AM in this team, your responsibilities will include:
- Leading and managing a team of up to 6-7 people comprising of graduates and experienced professionals.
- Monitoring work, managing and motivating the team to ensure deliverable meet necessary quality standards and agreed SLA’s.
- Being active member of audit engagement team and performing audit procedures and tests of the client that you are allocated.
- Contacting client and onshore team regularly to update on the progress of audit engagement.
- Sharing knowledge, mentoring and coaching the team members.
- Identification of issues/missing information and managing & tracking the open issues until resolved.
- Maintaining the data confidentiality and adherence to the risk management policy by the team members.
- Review of the team’s work and to provide timely feedback to team members to enable them to improve their performance.
- Building relationships with onshore team members sitting across different locations
- Auditing complex sections of the financial statements of companies as per country specific statutory requirements
Educational qualifications
Professional Chartered Accountancy qualification (e.g. ICAI or ACCA)
Work experience
- The candidate must have 3 to 5 years of relevant post qualification experience in a similar role, preferably with a Big4 accounting firm
- Mandatory technical & functional skills
- In depth knowledge of external Audit for corporate and/or international clients
- Experience in Private Equity & Hedge Fund sector will be an added advantage
- Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
- Proficiency/Working knowledge of Adobe Professional would be an added advantage
Key behavioral attributes/requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English)
- Personal drive and positive work ethic to deliver results within tight deadlines
- Project management skills including decision-making ability, analytical skills, time management, organisation, and evaluative skills
- Flexibility to adapt to a variety of engagement types
- Effective at inspiring and motivating team members in order to deliver high quality standards
- Recognizing the developmental requirements of team members and set goals to achieve them
Job description provided by KPMG Global Services.
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