Audit & Assurance Senior

Position: Audit & Assurance Senior
Department: Audit & Assurance
Grade: Senior
Category: Employee
Employment type: Full time

Responsibilities/Duties

- Work with the engagement management and team to create plans for accomplishing the engagement objectives and a strategy that complies with professional standards and appropriately addresses risks;
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with clients;
- Monitor the progress of the engagement team against the plan and alter it when needed;
- Effectively utilize advanced capabilities of audit technology tools and other firm standard software to meet engagement objectives and enhance service delivery;
- Produce quality client correspondence;
- Communicate ideas/opinions and information to the audit team and listen/respond to other team members views;
- Foster an efficient, innovative, and team-oriented work environment;
- Use technology to continually learn, share knowledge with team members;
- Be accessible and maximise contribution of staff;
- Review work of audit associates and take ownership for the work of the team;
- Understand the Firm’s service lines and actively assess/present ways to apply knowledge and services;
- Delegate effectively and monitor progress to ensure expectations are met through initiating discussions with service team and obtaining on-going feedback from client;
- Manage, motivate and provide guidance to staff;
- Identify training needs;
- Monitor team’s work to ensure it is consistent with the firm’s quality standards and audit approach;
- Be conscious of professional liability;
- Refer ethical, independence and conflict issues associated with clients and assignments to the Partner/Director/Manager;
- Demonstrate project management skills and effectively manage their own time across different engagements;
- Develop understanding of client industries and identify value added recommendations;
- Responsible to the engagement manager for day to day client contact and conduct of audit work;
- Any other task reasonably assigned to the staff member and within their skill set;
- Represent BDO in a professional manner at all times through punctuality & appearance;
- Maintenance of accurate records of time spent on each project;
- Meet client expectations and project deadlines.