Audit Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION Job Title: MANAGER – AUDIT Reporting to: Audit Director- Responsible Individual (RI) 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 19 Partners and over 200 staff. We are seeking a talented, experienced Audit Manager to join our growing audit team. You will work closely with an Audit Director (RI), 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 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. 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. Participate and assist when required with tenders and / or fee quotes. Take ownership of business development opportunities assigned to you. Manage assurance assignment planning, scheduling, optimum team composition, WIP, billings, timesheets, recoveries and ensure adherence to our firm’s compliance and regulatory standards. Assist the Audit Director (RI) in the provision of advice to clients and work with audit director (RI) - on a variety of ad-hoc projects as they arise. Manage client relationships. Contact, liaise and foster business relationships with your portfolio of clients. Participate, as required, in the department strategy. 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 3 plus years relevant practice PQE. ◼ Demonstratable 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. Equal opportunity Crowe is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Crowe is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. 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