Audit Associate

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>Evelyn Partners is the UK’s leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, with over 186 years of experience in helping generations of people and businesses to thrive. We offer an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities and businesses.</p><p>We provide an award-winning service for our clients by employing the best people. Join us on our mission to place the power of good advice into more hands because we believe that everyone deserves access to good advice, regardless of where they’re at in their financial journey.</p><p>An exceptional track record of growth and innovation is driven by our core values of: <em>Personal, </em>offering advice based on a true understanding of what matters to our clients; <em>Partnership</em>, working with our clients in a joined-up, collaborative way; and <em>Performance</em>, demonstrating a breadth and depth of advice expertise to deliver first-class results.</p><p>Read more about us and available career opportunities here: <a href="https://www.evelyn.com/">Wealth, accountancy and business advisory services | Evelyn Partners</a> and <a href="https://www.evelyn.com/careers/">Careers | Evelyn Partners</a></p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>Why join Evelyn Partners Audit?</p><p>We’re really proud of our highly successful Evelyn Partners Audit department. We hold ourselves to high standards and work together to produce quality, incisive audit work in a collegiate environment. We’re focused in working with an expanding client base of dynamic mid-market businesses whom are evolving and changing; which gives our team continual development opportunities and new experiences.</p><p>If you see yourself in an environment with an exciting and varied career journey and given the opportunity to perform and develop in one of the fastest growing audit firms in the UK, the Evelyn Partners audit department might be exactly what you’re looking for.</p><p><strong>As an Associate with Evelyn Partners, some of your responsibilities will include:</strong></p><ul><li>Complete audit programmes by undertaking tasks allocated and signing off to evidence completion</li><li>Document fully work completed</li><li>Conclude on each individual test and sections </li><li>Highlight issues and problems for attention</li><li>Review working papers of more junior staff where agreed </li><li>Obtain information and explanations from client staff</li><li>Establishing relationship point as for trainee</li><li>Resolution of queries whether of an audit or accountancy nature</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>Key Skills and Experience </strong></p><p>Demonstrable audit experience gained within a professional services firm.</p><p><strong>Professional Qualifications and Education </strong></p><p>Part Qualified Accountant, ideally ACA or AAT.</p><p>Track record of strong academic performance.</p><p><strong>Key Competencies</strong></p><p>Commercial awareness - an understanding of the organisation, the industry and business in general assists in putting the assignment into perspective and in identifying potential risks</p><p>Technical skills - development of full range of audit skills</p><p>Teamwork - Assisting the team to complete the assignment. Supervise, delegate, monitor and review work of more junior staff and provide on the job training as appropriate. Recognise the need to seek advice from seniors when appropriate and work to achieve deadlines</p><p>Written skills - write working papers, letters and other documents in standard form concisely and accurately – including method, findings and conclusions</p><p>Analytical review and thinking - analyse trends, ratios and relationships between figures to ascertain likely risks and problem areas. Obtain explanations for exceptions and variations</p><p>Judgement - ability to assess what gives rise to a risk and the size of that risk. Prioritise conflicting pressures within a tight timetable. Ability to consider overall risk of assignment not just the risk of a specific test. Assessment of whether sample sizes are adequate to form conclusion</p><h3>Additional Information</h3><p><strong>As a colleague here at Evelyn Partners, you will have access to benefits that include:</strong></p><ul><li>Competitive salary</li><li>Private medical insurance</li><li>Life assurance</li><li>Pension contribution</li><li>Hybrid working model (role dependant)</li><li>Generous holiday package</li><li>Option to purchase additional holiday</li><li>Shared parental leave</li></ul><p>We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients.  At Evelyn Partners we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation.  It is our commitment to provide a workspace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, ba