Manager, Audit

Reporting to: Audit Partner

Base: 40 Mespil Road, Dublin 4

Contract type: Full-time permanent

Job purpose

Crowe is a leading business advisory and accountancy firm with a modern culture and outlook ranking among the top 10 firms in Ireland. The firm currently has 14 partners and over 130 staff.

We are seeking a talented, experienced Audit Manager to join our growing audit team. You will work closely with an Audit Partner to deliver high-quality assurance and accounting assignments to a varied portfolio of dynamic clients and you will manage a team of motivated and capable trainees and qualified accountants.

This role is an ideal platform for a proactive, technically excellent, and ambitious person seeking to further develop their managerial skills, knowledge base and career in a dynamic, supportive, and growing Audit department in a modern thinking firm which has a clear career progression framework.

Key result areas

1. Managing a diverse and interesting portfolio of assurance clients and ensuring that assurance assignments are planned, executed, reviewed, and completed in a timely manner to an excellent standard.
2. Managing, mentoring, and motivating trainees and part and fully qualified seniors ensuring that constructive feedback is provided from assignments/reports and fully participating in all Performance Management initiatives as required. Deliver on and off the job training as required. 
3. Participate and assist when required with tenders and / or fee quotes.
4. Take ownership of business development opportunities assigned to you. 
5. Manage assurance assignment planning, scheduling, optimum team composition, WIP, billings, timesheets, recoveries and ensure adherence to our firm’s compliance and regulatory standards.
6. Assist the partners in the provision of advice to clients and work with partners on a variety of ad-hoc projects as they arise.
7. Manage client relationships.  Contact, liaise and foster business relationships with your portfolio of clients. 
8. Participate, as required, in the department strategy.
9. Proactively liaise and build effective working relationships with firm staff in all disciplines (Audit, Tax, Company Secretarial, Corporate Finance etc.) to facilitate and support the firm.

Person specification

Essential knowledge & skills:

• A qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with three plus years' relevant practice PQE.
• Demonstrable understanding of managing a portfolio of clients, the relevant filing deadlines, and successful deadline management.
• Demonstrable experience of effectively managing direct client communications.
• Strong commercial sense.
• Excellent analytical skills, purposeful, proactive and ability to work on own initiative.
• Good practical knowledge and understanding of Irish taxes.
• Ability to lead and supervise team members and to foster and develop the existing excellent team culture.
• Experience in using CaseWare would be advantageous but not essential.
• Excellent theoretical and practical knowledge of Irish GAAP, International Standards on Auditing (Ireland) (ISAs (Ireland)) and Irish company law.
• Strong excel skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with clients and provide excellent service.
• Ability to work on a diverse range of clients across multiple sectors.
• Proven Project Management skills together with the ability to handle multiple tasks / projects concurrently in a practice environment.

Essential competencies:

• People Leadership: Proven ability to listen, build rapport, influence, and build relationships. Keen to develop career into a more senior management role. Proven experience in supervising trainee accountants.
• Practice Management: Proven ability to focus on performance, meeting deadlines and producing results. A proven decision maker, evidence of sound judgement and common sense.
• Client Leadership: Displays confidentiality, confidence, agility and affinity with client and sector specialisms.
• Business Development: A strategic thinker, takes ownership of learning, empathy with client needs, seeks way to improve. Evidence of enthusiasm and keeps abreast of developments in this sector.

To apply

Please send your CV with covering email to [email protected].

Applications received will be stored on our system and may be considered for similar positions that may arise within the next year. By applying for this position, you hereby agree to the personal data contained in your application, and provided by you to Crowe, being retained by us for a period of up to one year from the date of receipt of your application. If you are applying for a position and you do not wish for your details to be stored by us, please notify us by emailing [email protected] and we will ensure that such information is not stored other than for the purposes of this application.

Agency policy

Crowe Ireland endeavours to recruit and fill vacancies directly. However, at times when we do need to engage with recruitment agencies, we operate within a preferred supplier list (PSL). We only work and partner with recruitment suppliers where our agreed contractual terms fully in place. If unsolicited CVs are received from any agency not on our PSL, then we will not be liable for payment of introduction fees.