Assistant Audit Manager

In a nutshell

Are you ready to take your audit career to the next level? Join us and lead diverse, impactful client assignments, gaining invaluable experience and exposure.

As a mentor to talented audit seniors and trainees, you’ll enhance your leadership skills and make a lasting impact.

Benefit from our top-rated development programs, offering continuous support and bespoke training tailored to your career aspirations.

What you'll be doing day to day

• Planning and carrying out statutory audits of corporate clients, both on-site and in the office
• Leading larger and more complex assignments
• Leading the audit team on-site, ensuring audit procedures are adhered to
• Supporting the manager and partner group on ad hoc projects and assignments
• Supervising and supporting the work of junior team members
• Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with clients
• Liaising with clients to ensure a smooth and successful client experience
• Producing work for manager and/ or partner review
• Highlighting technical or client-specific issues and providing possible solutions
• You may also manage a small portfolio

About you

• ACA/ ACCA qualified, or part-qualified with relevant experience
• Statutory audit experience, gained in a professional practice environment, ideally including experience of group audits, and preparing consolidated financial statements (not essential)
• Full clean driving licence with unrestricted access to a car (desirable but not essential)
• Organised and able to plan your own time efficiently
• Ability to work independently, or as part of a team
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport quickly with clients
• Professional and discreet in demonstrating client care
• Experience in using automated audit software and computer-based accounts and tax compilation programmes

Why work at PKF Francis Clark

As the largest firm of independent chartered accountants and business advisors in South West England, joining PKF Francis Clark brings opportunities to develop your career in a direction that interests you.

Having celebrated our centenary in 2019, we’re a team of nearly 1,000 people, based across our offices in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Poole, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Torquay and Truro.

Our culture is flexible and supportive, enabling you to be the best you can be. We work hard to ensure you can be yourself, develop and be part of a forward-thinking team that makes brilliant things happen. But don’t just take our word for it.

PKF Francis Clark is certified as a Great Place to Work. In 2024, we climbed nine places to 24 out of 105 large organisations on the list of the UK’s Best Workplaces.

We’re also ranked among the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women (33 out of 90 large organisations), Best Workplaces for Development (30 out of 100) and Best Workplace for Wellbeing (44 out of 100).

Workplace culture experts Great Place to Work also highlighted PKF Francis Clark as a top achiever among the UK’s Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services.

And in recognition of our outstanding training programmes for graduates, school leavers and career changers, we’ve been ranked among England’s Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers for two years running.

Whilst we’re proudly independent, PKF Francis Clark is a member of the PKF Global family of firms – together we’re the 12th largest provider of accountancy services in the UK. Being part of a global community of business advisors in 150 countries provides opportunities to expand your horizons by connecting with PKF colleagues around the world.

Your core benefits 

Financial benefits:
•    Pension
•    Group life assurance - up to four times your core salary
•    Group income protection
•    Health cash plan to help cover the costs of everyday healthcare 

Health & Wellbeing benefits:
•    Option to buy 5 extra days holiday*
•    Counselling and support for you and your immediate family
•    Virtual GP for you and your immediate family
•    Cycle to work*

Other benefits:
•    Medicash Extras providing you with shopping and gym discounts
•    Gifts for career and family milestones
•    One volunteering day per year to support local organisations
•    Emergency funding from the Francis Clark Charitable Foundation 

Please note
* These benefits are provided via a salary exchange and are subject to employee’s post exchange hourly rate remaining above the national minimum wage.