Are you a self-motivated, hardworking, ambitious person looking for your next challenge? If you are, and you’re looking to join a national operation with international reach, then we have a great role for you, based at our Nottingham office near Park Row

Our firm

The UHY Hacker Young Group is a leading network of chartered accountants with 20 offices spanning England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are also a founding member of UHY International, our Top 20 global network, which has over 340 offices in all major global business jurisdictions.

We are a people-first business, and we recognise that you, and the rest of our team, are essential to deliver on our purpose of helping you prosper, whether you are a client, a member of our team, or part of our wider community.

We want you to be challenged, to learn and grow while you’re with us, to have fun in the workplace, work with like-minded individuals, and deliver great services.

Are you looking to join a team that:

• is values driven?
• believes in and delivers a culture of work-life balance, with a focus on wellbeing?
• provides a clear career framework and routes to progress?
• understands the importance of rewarding and retaining high calibre teams?
• delivered 20% growth in the last 12 months?

If so we would love to hear from you.

Role overview

The Audit Manager will be a crucial member of the audit group. You will hold your own portfolio of clients reporting to the RI. You will be responsible for servicing clients, directing all assurance services delivered and managing our people.

Are you an ambitious qualified accountant with audit experience looking for a new challenge? As a growing department we have big plans for the future.

We recognise that you and the rest of our team are essential to deliver on our purpose of “helping you prosper” whether you are a client, member of our team or part of the wider community. We want you to be challenged, have fun in the workplace, work with like-minded individuals and deliver great service.

This is would be a great career move for someone operating as a client relationship manager (or equivalent) who is looking to enhance their portfolio or an existing manager looking to develop a larger client portfolio with more complex clients.

Job description

As an Audit Manager your typical daily duties will include:

• You will work alongside the manager team delivering high quality audits in your portfolio to our clients.
• You will be supported by the wider audit team to deliver the onsite work and will report into the RIs.
• You will build relationships with the clients so that you are the “go-to” person and will manage their expectations, their audit and our team to deliver a high-quality audit
• You will lead, manage and develop the team and be a role model, being the point of reference for the audit team.
• You will be completing file reviews utilising your existing technical knowledge and experience whilst developing your skills still further and ensuring quality standards are met.
• You will be identifying and delivering added value service to the clients to help them prosper; identifying opportunities, understanding the client needs and their businesses.
• Maintain and develop technical ability by attending training (including webinars), keeping abreast of technical development and being able to present your own research on technically challenging aspects
• Act as a counselling manager and mentor to help other team members achieve personal and professional development goals.
• People management responsibilities covering resource planning and allocation, performance management, training and feedback.
• Review and assess WIP regularly and address overruns as they occur.
• Raise bills regularly and prompt the RI for interim billing when required.

Working arrangements

The working week: 37 hours per week (Monday-Friday) to be worked from 09:00-17:30 /with flexibility of hours to meet specific work demands.

Location: Your principle work based is our London Office.

At UHY it’s all about you – our benefits

• 36 days holiday (including bank holidays & Compulsory Christmas shutdown counted as part of holiday entitlement)
• The ability to ‘purchase’ extra days leave in salary sacrifice
• Private medical insurance at discounted rates
• Private medical insurance (Assistant Manager and above)
• Private dental cover at discounted rates
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Season ticket loan (for travel)
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity pay
• Pension Scheme arrangements
• Employee discount platform – UHY Plus
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric car scheme coming soon

Person specifications – Desirable experience and skills

• ACA/ACCA qualified or equivalent
• Experience of working with an accountancy practice
• Proven managerial experience
• Proven ability to be well organised, with own work, and with workflow of the portfolio
• Competent in setting and meeting organisational deadlines
• Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience of using cloud software in particular Xero
• Experience in Sage and/or QuickBooks
• Experience in using CCH

Our core values and behaviours run through everything we do and support our purpose of helping you prosper. They set the tone for our team to work by and we are looking for people who value the same things as us: living empathy, making progress, being present and enjoying it!

Visit here to find out what it’s like to work at UHY Nottingham.