Audit Quality - Centre of Excellence Senior Manager

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy – and directly advise the owners and management teams leading them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Audit quality is central to our strategy as an Audit Stream, the key ingredient to our success. Consistent high audit quality enables us to attract, develop and retain talented people and be proud of our work. Audit quality allows us to compete in the market and demonstrate that we can play a key role in market reform.

Consistently high audit quality does not happen by chance. It requires a mindset and culture of challenge and professional scepticism, appropriate resources both people and intellectual, investment in central support for engagement teams and technology solutions. Within the last year we have increased our headcount significantly, invested in new partners, and commenced a significant investment programme in our central quality support team.

We’ll help you succeed

The work we do is underpinned by quality. We deliver audits which are trusted and transparent which can be relied upon by companies and their stakeholders.

You’ll be someone who is comfortable working pro-actively and, managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with Senior Managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners. You’ll help deliver accurate and transparent reporting to all relevant stakeholders as you provide long term value.

This is an opportunity for talented, high performing and ambitious Senior Manager to join the Centre of Excellence in the Audit Quality Department (AQD) during an exciting time, helping to shape both the role and the expanding team. You will report to a Director/Partner within the CoE and contribute to developing innovative data analytics tools, solutions, methodologies, and guidance for auditing revenue and other key areas, providing valuable support to engagement teams.

As a forward-thinking and innovative team, the Centre of Excellence (CoE) spearheads the development of firm-wide and sector-specific tools, solutions, methodologies, and guidance. The CoE supports engagement teams on targeted large and complex audits by reviewing audit strategies and execution. Currently, the focus is on auditing revenue, with plans to expand to other critical audit areas as the CoE evolves. The CoE also provides support during external regulatory reviews and collaborates with our broader audit quality support functions to enhance audit quality.

Reporting to a Director/Partner within the CoE, your role will include:

Support audit teams on large and complex audits by coaching them and assisting in the implementation and execution of a high-quality revenue audit strategy, incorporating controls and digital techniques as appropriate.

Conduct file reviews on live audits to enhance audit quality, while coaching and training engagement teams throughout the process.

Assist the regulatory team, in conjunction with a CoE Director/Partner, during external AQR reviews.

Lead the development of innovative data analytics tools and solutions, as well as methodologies and guidance, for auditing revenue and other key audit areas.

Work with the Audit Stream Learning and Development team to identify training needs, contribute to the development of training materials, and present and facilitate training sessions.

Collaborate with the broader Audit Quality Directorate and Technology Risk Advisory to enhance audit quality and implement controls and digital audit techniques.

You'll be someone with:

strong knowledge of substantive and controls-based audit strategies in the audit of revenue and other key audit areas.

experience using Data Analytics procedures on engagements or providing methodology and interpretation support to audit teams in a central role

experience undertaking audit file reviews, either in a regulatory capacity or within practice

The role requires strong understanding and practical experience of the regulatory environment, high levels of technical audit expertise and knowledge.

Excellent communication skills, the ability to challenge engagement teams effectively and a passion for coaching are essential.  

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to our business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.
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