Rutherford Cross’s client is a global accountancy firm. Their Scotland offices are growing, winning new clients across all service lines and offering unrivalled opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge in a collegiate, flexible working environment.

Our client has ambitious goals for 2020 and to achieve these grand plans their teams need to perform at the highest level, and have a relentless focus on delivering the excellent client service that will help them continue to grow and become the market leader.

Opportunity:

From small businesses to some of the world’s best-known brands, our client’s clients count on reliable financial statements, information and processes to inform their on-going strategies. More than ever, business is about interpreting and reacting to complex data and thus our client is seeking a driven and ambitious Manager to join their fast-growing Audit Service line in Edinburgh and or Glasgow.

In this position, you will play a key role in driving growth by developing new and existing client relationships, leading highly skilled project teams and delivering a first-class customer experience on high-profile engagements. Everything you’ll do will come back to providing exceptional analytical insights for their clients. Equally colleagues and clients will look to you first for answers so you’ll be a high-profile contact when it comes to resolving complex issues.

Required skills and attributes

• Leading fieldwork, managing performance and keeping engagement leaders updated on audit engagements
• Completing audit processes and documenting higher-risk areas to increase your technical and business skills
• Engaging clients and providing authoritative advice and professionalism throughout transactions
• Constantly developing your understanding of current market trends and processes and sharing your knowledge to develop junior colleagues
• Understanding our clients’ unique ambitions and needs and referring them to colleagues in other teams and areas to broaden our business relationships where possible

Essential requirements:

• 3+ years’ work experience as an auditor in a public accounting firm
• ACA/ACCA/CA qualified or international equivalent
• Experience leading the planning, execution and reporting on audits
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills and a collaborative approach to management

To be successful:

Our client is looking for future leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about auditing and ready to take on some of their clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.