Audit Consultant

Description:

Our role as an auditor is to act independently to support trust and integrity in the business. We provide a wide range of audit and assurance services to private, public and international companies across various sectors. We audit over 8,500 firms annually, ranging from FTSE and AIM companies to Small Medium Sized Enterprise (SME) companies. We pride ourselves on the high-level standards and quality we expect from our people.

We are the largest auditor to the public sector including the NHS, local government and police and fire bodies. In our role as external auditor to these bodies, as well as the audit of financial statements, we are required to consider whether the audited body has put in place proper arrangements to secure economy, efficiency and effectiveness in its use of resources, also known as Value for Money. We are looking for people with appropriate skills to support our work on assessing the financial sustainability, governance and service performance of our public sector clients.

Skills we’re looking for:

· Experience of working with or within the public sector - local Government, NHS police or fire bodies in an operational, finance or audit role.

· Some knowledge of local authority and NHS finance and a reasonably good understanding of the governance and service performance of these sectors.

· Knowledge of Value for Money in an external audit context is preferred.

· Detail-orientated with strong organisation, planning and report writing skills.

· Experience of dealing with senior stakeholders