Corporate Audit - Senior - Belfast

Job Description

Corporate Audit - Senior - Belfast

We are seeking a motivated and ambitious Audit Senior to join our Corporate Audit team in Belfast. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified audit professional to further develop their career within a collaborative and supportive environment.

As an Audit Senior, you will play a key role in the delivery of high-quality audit and assurance services to a diverse portfolio of clients. You will lead audit engagements, support the development of junior team members, build strong client relationships and contribute to the continued growth and success of the Corporate Audit team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver audit engagements for a diverse portfolio of clients across a range of industry sectors.
• Prepare and review audit working papers, accounts and statutory financial statements.
• Design and implement audit plans, ensuring assignments are completed within agreed budgets and timeframes.
• Act as a technical resource to the team, providing guidance on IFRS, UK GAAP and auditing standards.
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships and act as a key point of contact throughout engagements.
• Coach, mentor and support trainees and junior team members, contributing to their ongoing development.

Skills & Experience

• ACA, ACCA or equivalent professionally qualified accountant.
• 3+ years' experience within Audit and Assurance, gained in a professional practice environment.
• Strong experience leading audit engagements from planning through to completion.
• Strong technical knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP and International Standards on Auditing (ISA).
• Experience preparing and reviewing statutory financial statements.
• Demonstrable experience coaching and mentoring trainees and junior team members.
• Experience working with a diverse portfolio of clients across a range of industry sectors.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to build and maintain client relationships.
• Ability to work on your own initiative, manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work to deadlines.
• Ambitious, proactive and motivated to develop a long-term career within professional practice.

Key Attributes

• Client-focused with a commitment to delivering exceptional service.
• Strong professional judgement and problem-solving abilities.
• Proactive, adaptable and solutions-oriented.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.
• Commercially aware with a desire to contribute to the growth of the Corporate Audit team.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues and clients.
• Committed to continuous learning, development and technical excellence.

About Us

We are Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton Ireland is rapidly approaching 3,000 people, in 9 offices across Ireland, Isle of Man, Gibraltar and Bermuda. With a presence in over 149 countries around the world and a global network of 73,000 people, we bring our clients the local knowledge, national expertise and global presence to help them succeed – wherever they’re located.

At GT, we work as trusted advisors, bringing local knowledge and national expertise, with a global presence, to help businesses succeed – wherever they are located. We make business more personal by investing in building relationships and empowering our clients to make the right decisions for their organisation now and for the future. Whether that is working with the public sector to build thriving communities, with regulators and financial institutions to build trust, or with a diverse range of businesses to help them achieve their goals, Grant Thornton Ireland work hard to support clients to act on the issues that matter.

At GT Ireland we don’t just predict your future, we build it.

A Career at GT

Looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services? One where fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity are valued? At Grant Thornton we do things differently.

What does this mean for you?

A career in a more inclusive working environment, a more collaborative work culture, a more supported, flexible working role, more possibilities to grow and more opportunities to help shape the future for your clients. We respect and value your experience. And we want you to bring your authentic self to work and be at your best. It is how it should be.

Grow with us

At Grant Thornton, we care about our people and work hard to make you feel valued. If you are looking to deepen and develop your skills, knowledge, and experience throughout your career, then that is what you will get, and more.

Our Benefits

Please follow this link for information on our generous benefits package.

About The Team

Equity, diversity and inclusion

At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied individuals present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.

We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm. We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm’s best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.

Reward And Benefits

Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access to the necessary benefits to help promote a healthy lifestyle and thrive.

Recognition

We want to create a culture of recognition and celebrating success, by saying thank you to people who surpass our expectations and recognising the right values and behaviours. Our Shout Out recognition scheme is our way of highlighting and promoting achievements. Whether you simply want to say thank you, celebrate a special occasion or give an award for doing something exceptional, you can do all of this and more through the scheme.