Assurance - Senior Manager

Overview

In this Senior Manager role, you’ll lead the Belfast audit team to deliver high-quality assurance services for a diverse client base. You’ll oversee planning, budgeting, staffing, and client relationships, ensuring methodology compliance and efficient delivery. You’ll coordinate cross-fund planning, partner and QRP oversight, and contribute to business development and recruitment. This is a chance to shape assurance delivery in a dynamic NI market within a supportive, inclusive culture.

Pay / Benefits

• PwC perks: exclusive discounts, experiences, and extras
• inclusive culture that empowers employees
• rewards aligned to lifestyle and needs

Responsibilities

• Liaise with the engagement leader and keep them informed of issues
• Ensure billing and staffing are captured in requisitions and budgets
• Review staff allocation and alignment with requisitions and fees
• Agree timetables with administrators and managers
• Identify training needs for staff on administrator systems and arrange as needed
• Organise and review work with delegated responsibilities
• Allocate costs with lead manager and inform stakeholders before codes are charged
• Monitor job progress amid client timing changes and staffing updates
• Attend manager meetings and discuss workload timely
• Review client audit files from planning through completion and ensure methodology compliance
• Conduct engagement assessments
• Budget and determine resource requirements
• Organise partner and QRP meetings for planning and completion
• Draft board reports, engagement letters, and audit representations
• Develop client relationships and liaise on cross-fund planning
• Inform lead manager of staffing or timing changes
• Conduct staff appraisals and coaching for development
• Network in the local business community
• Prepare and deliver competitive audit proposals
• Participate in graduate recruitment activities

Key requirements

• At least 8 years practice accounting experience in a Big 4 or international firm
• Qualified ACA/ACCA or equivalent
• Strong knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRS
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written)
• Commitment to exceptional client service
• Ability to interact with multiple levels of client and firm management
• Knowledge of UK and Irish GAAP and GAAS; PCAOB/US GAAP desirable but not required
• Excellent project management and relationship management skills
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Leadership, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
• Business development experience

• excellent oral and written communication
• client service orientation
• interpersonal skills
• UK GAAP
• IFRS
• GAAS

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