Audit Senior Associate

Our Leeds office are looking for an experienced, professional and enthusiastic Qualified Senior Associate, to join our audit team. Applicants must be either ACA or ACCA qualified and be able to display a commercially minded and organised approach to client work.

You will become a key part of a growing team, which provides a wide range of audit, advisory and accounting services to a huge range of diverse clients.

Responsibilities:

• Project manage and drive forwards the audit and accounting process, including liaising directly with senior individuals in clients' finance teams.
• Get actively involved in every aspect of the audit process, taking ownership of planning, fieldwork, and the completion on audit engagements, working closely with managers and partners.
• Have the opportunity to get involved in the direction and overall running of the team. There may also be opportunities to work on ad hoc projects e.g., department or firm wide working groups and client advisory work.
• Manage a small portfolio of jobs, which helps you to develop the next stage of your career progression.

These are exciting times for the local office with the recent expansion from Harrogate to brand new, purpose-built office space in Leeds City Centre in September 2024. You will be joining a dynamic, supportive and collegiate Audit team, offering the opportunity to develop new skills and accelerated career growth opportunities.

• Experience working in an audit and accounts practice.
• ACA /ACCA qualified or equivalent with good pass rates in the professional exams.
• Ability to identify, research and help to resolve complex audit issues.
• Demonstrated experience of managing, training, and mentoring staff on projects, and assessing performance.
• Technically strong with a good and up to date knowledge of accounting and auditing standards.
• Demonstrate a passion for delivering quality, ensuring that client needs are met.
• Sets priorities, defines activities, gives responsibilities and plans work so that results are achieved on time.
• Be organised and commercially minded. Displaying a flexible, professional approach and have the confidence to establish credibility with Partners and clients.
• Work cooperatively with others, motivating others to succeed.

• A 35 hour working week with a hybrid working policy with the flexibility to work from home for up to three days per week (our core hours are 10-4).
• Excellent benefits including; contributory pension scheme, 25 days annual leave, Life Assurance cover and great flexible benefits and family friendly policies.
• Eligibility for the firm's Profit-Sharing Plan. Paid in December.
• Paid overtime or time off in lieu.

Saffery LLP is an adviser to individuals and businesses across a range of sectors, providing market-leading accountancy, audit, business advisory, tax and VAT services. Founded in 1855, we are the UK's 15th largest accountancy firm.

When you work with us at Saffery, you work with people who know your name, not just a job title. We're a place shaped by friendly, intelligent people who are individually excellent and collectively exceptional. We're committed to our clients, but also to our greatest asset - our people.

As a proud member of Nexia, a leading, international network of independent accounting and consulting firms, we've got access to local insight on a global scale.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is a top priority for us. With our ED&I strategy, Everyone Belongs, we are building on our positive work culture and implementing initiatives to improve diversity and strengthen our equitable culture of inclusion, led from the top.

We hope you will apply to us, whatever your background, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability or neurodivergence, because individual differences equal collective strength. Built on values of excellence, integrity, enthusiasm and collegiality, Saffery is where Potential meets Personal.