Audit Manager

• CA(SA)
• CaseWare knowledge (Essential)
• 5+ Years’ experience in an audit environment (Essential) – post articles
• At least 2+ years of management experience (Essential)
• Excellent in MS Office, specifically MS Excel
• Excellent communication skills
• Professionalism
• Sound knowledge of Income Tax implications for clients and tax compliance
• Communication of the highest standard and ability to communicate all around (Essential)
• Stong people skills to lead teams
• Good at developing client relationships
• Have sound technical knowledge
• Ability to apply technical to firm/clients and train staff
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Package

R480 000 - R540 000 per annum - dependent on experience. Deductions included in CTC are CAMAF medical aid, Old Mutual Pension fund and Old Mutual life/funeral cover. Performance bonus over and above CTC.

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Staff Leadership and Co-ordination

• Provide leadership and direction to staff.
• Provide role clarity to staff and makes available necessary tools to facilitate performance.
• Ensures that there is clear focus and co-ordination of all activities; and that there are clearly communicated performance standards and objectives.
• Set standards for individual and overall performance and take steps to ensure it operates as a high-performance and effective team.
• Monitors and provides regular feedback on the individual performance of immediate subordinates and takes appropriate action where necessary.
• Acts as a Coach and Mentor to direct reports.
• Ensures that there are always clear lines of communication within the Business Unit.
• Ensures that there are training and development plans in place for staff.
• Ensures self-development and training & development of all staff in the Business Unit.
• Assesses staffing requirements on an ongoing basis, appoints appropriately qualified personnel and ensures that they are fully utilised in terms of their skills set and experience.

Financial Management

• Provides input into the Business Unit's annual budget.
• Monitors costs, disbursements, and overhead expenditures and makes recommendations to the Partner.
• Ensures that invoices are submitted to clients timeously and follows up vigorously with all parties to ensure payment is received.
• Ensures that clients are billed timeously.
• Manages staff billing and completion of time sheets and takes decisive action where there are deviations.
• Manages and ensures staff recoverability rate.
• Achieves productivity targets and WIP ratio.

Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Manages every project from asking for client information and kick-off meetings through to fee collection.

• Takes ownership and accountability for engagements.
• Chart out project objectives, plans, and schedules, set performance requirements, and select project participants.
• Ensures compliance with project requirements such as quality control through the Consultants.
• Provides regular reports to the Partner on the status of the project.
• Monitors the project budget, tracks expense and minimizes exposure and risk in the project.
• Ensures that the budget that was agreed at inception of the engagement is being met.
• Ensures that no hours are written off on projects.
• Ensures that project deadlines are met.
• Ensures that activities move according to a predetermined schedule.
• Communicates regularly with clients and other stakeholders on project status.
• Submits reports to clients.
• Maintains continuous communication with staff on the status of client.
• Maintains strict adherence to the budgetary guidelines and quality standards.
• Ensures all required project documentation is accurately and timeously completed.
• Deals effectively with technical client issues and resolves same timeously.
• Ensures that clients' compliance needs that are outsourced to Accensis are met.
• Monitors and evaluates the Business Unit’s performance in terms of:
• customer satisfaction
• budget performance
• adherence to standard operating procedures
• business loss/gained
• Informs Tax BU after financials are finalized to ensure tax return can be done.
• Ensures Tax BU has sufficient knowledge of clients to deal with queries, etc.
• Drafts Proposals and Engagement Letters.
• Research complex topics and trains staff accordingly.
• Facilitates general training for staff within the BU.
• Reviews files and ensures compliance with accounting standards.
• Develops relationships with clients to be able to obtain payments where applicable

Operational Efficiency and Effectiveness- Audit

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for full statutory audits on small to medium and large-sized firms in the private and public sectors, in various industries.
• Ensures compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards, International Financial Reporting Standards for small and medium-sized entities, SA Companies Act, International Standards on Auditing, King 4, and the Income Tax Act.
• Prepares detailed time budgets and allocates audit work to audit team members, planning meetings/agendas.
• Technically inclined and is up to date with the latest accounting and audit standards.
• To attend various programs to keep abreast with the changes in the standards and relay that to the firm.
• Training and developing the staff on all aspects of audit and accounting and ensuring that regular training is conducted.
• Able to implement on your own and run with projects and set up a mini technical/training sphere for the firm and be the leader in charge of this.

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