Assistant Manager - Audit

UK PS- AM- GGN Roles & responsibilities We are recruiting for an Assistant Manager in the Audit team. In this team, your responsibilities will include leading a team of experienced professional, perform reviews and work on Audit engagements of international KPMG teams and clients. In addition, you will be required to: • Be a lead in an audit team to delivery quality deliverables of end-to-end audit engagements of international KPMG teams and clients. • Leading and managing a team of up to 6-7 people comprising of graduates and experienced professionals. • Planning an audit engagement and be able to perform pre-planning audit activities, staffing an engagement, plan and perform risk assessments work, work with clients on PBC requirements, work assignments to engagement team members, etc. • Lead junior and semi experienced audit team members and perform reviews of junior team member’s audit work while also undertaking smaller and medium-sized audit engagements independently or assist in larger assignments reporting to a Manager or Senior Manager. • Work on complex sections of the financial statements of audit engagements as per country specific statutory requirements and prepare and document accounting workpapers, controls and audit findings. • Establish strong professional relationships with clients and engagement team members through regular connects and meetings. Roles & responsibilities • Provide regular updates on work pipeline, discussions with engagement teams on issues/missing information, manage & track the open issues until resolved, etc. while maintaining the data confidentiality and adherence to the risk management policy by the team members. • Coach and mentor junior team members and act as performance managers to build future leaders. Mandatory technical & functional skills • In depth knowledge of external Audit for corporate/government bodies/entities and/or international clients • Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Flexibility to adapt to a variety of engagement types, working hours and work environments. Preferred technical & functional skills • Experience in IFRS, FRS 102 & Public sector will be an added advantage • Recognizing the developmental requirements of team members and set goals to achieve them • Proficiency/Working knowledge of Adobe Professional would be an added advantage • Strong critical thinking, analytical and decision-making skills Educational qualifications • Professional Chartered Accountancy qualification (e.g. ICAI or ACCA) Work experience • The candidate must have 3 to 4 years of relevant post qualification experience in a similar role, preferably with a Big 4 firm