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Technical and Training Manager |
London office technical and training department is currently looking to recruit a manager. The successful candidate will be able to cope with a large and diverse work load, take responsibility for a range of important tasks, and demonstrate high standards at all times.
The position is ideally suited to someone in a similar or overlapping role or to an auditor with high professional standards and strong technical skills looking for a change. Relevant training will be provided.
Responsibilities
- Give credible and robust advice to partners on financial reporting and audit and assurance issues.
- Write clear and concise bulletins, guidance notes and training materials.
- Present effectively on short (technical update) and long (practical auditing) courses.
- Be responsive to the planned and unplanned needs of the rest of the firm.
- Form good working relationships with partners, managers, seniors and trainees alike.
The T&T department comprises a partner, a manager (or assistant manager) and a secretary/administrator. Most tasks are shared between the partner and manager according to current priorities.
Main tasks of the department
1. Technical
The technical and training department is responsible for the determination, maintenance, dissemination and quality control of several of the firm’s professional and related procedures, for briefing the firm on relevant developments, and for providing “help line” support to partners and staff as necessary. The largest part of this area of responsibility currently relates to financial reporting and the firm’s audit procedures and the next largest relates to the firm’s ethical obligations.
Principal tasks of the department:
- Maintenance and upgrade of (potentially new) audit methodology.
- Development of further assurance guidance, e.g.:
- Investigations and Circulars
- Compliance reports - Researching and writing technical bulletins.
- Responding to ad hoc technical enquiries, addressing, e.g.:
- Auditing
- Accounting
- Company law
- Almost anything else - Managing and carrying out all aspects of firm’s audit quality control procedures:
- Audit Regulation compliance
- Hot reviews
- Cold reviews - Technical input to client newsletters.
- Technical input to staff courses.
- Technical input to firm’s publications.
- Firm’s responses to relevant professional consultation (e.g. FREDs).
- Involvement in network peer review programme.
- Practice assurance
2. Training
Overall the technical and training department is responsible for the determination, maintenance, and delivery of the firm’s training programme, together with related budgetary control, administration and record keeping. The largest part of this area of responsibility currently relates to the firm’s internal courses for audit trainees. More specifically, the responsibilities are:
- To prepare and publish the annual training programme for all staff.
- To communicate the availability of internal courses to HY staff.
- To prepare and deliver the firm’s internal courses.
- To prepare detailed budgets to cover both internal and external training and to monitor actual expenditure as it occurs.
- To review training needs on a regular basis and establish where and what additional training input would be of benefit to the firm.
- To monitor individual training take up and maintain appropriate records.
- To further develop the National Training strategy.
2.1. Student Accountant Courses (internal)
There are currently four courses (each of approximately a week’s duration) and one two-day course held in the period from October to January. There may be other short, single subject courses from time to time during the year. The T&T Manager will be the principal, but not the only, presenter and ‘lead’ the preparation.
The current course programme:
Induction 2 days
Introductory 1 – bookkeeping 4 days
Introductory 2 – auditing 4 days
Semi-seniors – auditing 5 days
Seniors – auditing and soft skills 5 days
2.2. Examination Studies (Students)
Students also attend external courses relating to their planned professional qualification.
Principal tasks:
- To monitor the administration of exam and course entry.
- To monitor student exam progress and to counsel where required.
- To inform the firm as to successes/failures in professional exams.
2.3. Courses for Qualified Personnel (internal)
There are currently two regular programmes, a monthly tax course (outside presenter, externally prepared material) and a quarterly accounting and auditing update (internally prepared and presented). Other courses, including some soft skills, are held from time to time.
2.4. External Courses (Partners and qualified staff)
Partners and staff also attend external courses relating to their particular technical needs.
Principal tasks:
- To collate and review the attainment of CPE/CPD by qualified staff.
- To identify external courses to satisfy needs that cannot be satisfied internally.
2.5. Other Training Administration
Work with the administrator/secretary to ensure all aspects of training administration are effective.
3. Graduate Recruitment
The training and HR departments are responsible for the almost all aspects of the recruitment programme in the London office, with T &T taking responsibility for the ICAEW intake. (There is also a BAS intake of 3 to a slightly different timetable, for ACCA.)
Approximately 10 graduates are recruited in one annual intake for the audit department. Currently, screening takes place between October and March, first interviews take place in February and March, second interviews in April, offer and acceptance procedures follow, and graduates arrive in December.
The task is to manage, develop and participate in the graduate recruitment process, including:
- Arrange recruitment advertising.
- Maintain and update recruitment materials (website).
- Maintain and update application forms.
- Assist in screening applicants.
- Assist in first interview programme.
- Identify and implement improvement in all aspects of the above procedures.
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4. Counselling and appraisal
The training and HR departments are responsible for the almost all aspects of the counseling and appraisal programme in the London and Nottingham offices
The principal task within T & T is to administer the student counselling programmes as required by the relevant professional bodies, ensuring that (6 monthly) reviews are carried out.
5. Other support to the T&T partner
The T&T partner has responsibilities within the firm additional to those noted or implied above. The largest of these relates to the firm’s Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII), but there are often other ad hoc projects for the firm, the national network or the international network.
Accordingly other tasks may arise from time to time.
6. Personal qualities
The key personal attributes of the applicant will include the following:
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of financial reporting and auditing standards.
- (Preferably) knowledge of (some) specialist area(s), such as pension schemes, charities or solicitor’s accounts rules.
- Energy and enthusiasm, intelligence and diligence.
- A confident, assertive manner and a thick skin.
- The ability to manage competing demands from diverse tasks.
- The ability to communicate successfully with different people.
- Strong MS Office skills
- Sound writing skills
- The ability to act with initiative, with the minimum of supervision and in a proactive manner.
- Qualified accountant with strong academic and exam record.
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7. Key experience requirements
- Experience of working with some of these roles would be very useful.
- Experience of working in Audit, including larger companies, essential.
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