About this role
- Proposed designation
Senior Manager
- Role type
Individual contributor with team & people management
- If supervisory:
–Review the work performed by the subordinates and coach them
- Reporting to
AP/Partner
- Geo to be supported
NORDIC (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland)
- Work timings
9:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M.
The SM will lead the 5 KDN Nordic MFs within KRC. The role will comprise ~50% chargeable client work and 50% responsibility for team management, strategy execution, service delivery, and audit quality oversight across the portfolio. Your role will include the following key focus areas:
- Undertake chargeable client audit work for ~ 50% of the role
- Market growth and client delivery: Responsible for growth of the business including engagement delivery and managing relationships on a portfolio of audit engagements
- People leadership: Responsible for team management of 5 NORDIC Member Firms that will consist of ~60 FTEs in NCR region working on onshore audit delivery.
- Monitor quality of delivery as per the central quality framework
- Strategy, innovation and business support team oversight
Within these four focus areas the following responsibilities are expected:
- Managing and leading audits with high quality of delivery whereby constantly contributing to the Audit Quality of both the onshore and offshore practice
- Build and develop strong relationships with key onshore member firm stakeholders and act as a main point of contact for onshore departments involved in innovation, business support, audit quality and client delivery
- Drive audit quality, lead the audit quality team, and further develop a learning organization which includes operational reviews, as well as learning and knowledge sharing sessions
- Contribute and drive the development of strategic initiatives and vision on the audit of the future
- Continual action to increase penetration and identify new opportunities for growth
- Act as the Performance Manager and lead the career development of staff members
- Motivate, develop and coach Managers, Assistant Managers and Team Leaders to deliver quality audit work and to become effective leaders
- Maintain rigor around risk & compliance guidelines of the firm, and workout plans to mitigate business risks
- Attract and retain the right talent to support the business growth agenda
- Enable a culture of high performance and establish KRC-KDN Audit as the “clear choice” for people
Educational qualifications
- Professional Chartered Accountancy qualification (e.g. ICAI or ACCA)
Work experience
- Qualified CA (ICAI) with 9.5+ years of relevant audit experience, or ACCA with 12.5+ years of relevant audit experience, gained within a Big 4 client-facing environment supporting Non-FS and/or international audited entities.
- IT literacy with sound knowledge and experience of Excel/ Word/ PowerPoint