Audit Manager at Sunrose Consulting

Our client is a foremost audit and accounting firm in Lagos, Nigeria. The Company is made up of a team of proven professionals with a special focus on Business Advancement, Financing and Human Capital Development. Its services are broad-based and it is driven by a strong passion to create value for its clients and their businesses by providing them with strategic and tactical advisory support to augment their internal processes and operations. The company is now seeking to recruit an Audit Manager.

Reporting to the Partner, you will manage and deliver audit engagements from planning through to completion. The role will require proficiency in relevant accounting standards, as well as extensive audit experience. You will be expected to manage a portfolio of clients, which will differ from firm to firm, having responsibility for agreeing audit timetables, briefing the audit team (including other specialists), monitoring budgets and supervising the audit process. 

Other Responsibilities

• Overseeing Audit Supervisors’ work, ensuring compliance with client and statutory audit methodology requirements, appreciating relevant internal and external market factors, and ensuring the effective and timely delivery of engagements 
• Overseeing and directing the budgeting, planning, co-ordination and control of engagements in accordance with client and statutory audit methodology and business requirements to ensure effective service delivery and maximised recoverability 
• Directing, coaching and mentoring Audit Supervisors to assist them in the effective delivery of engagements and the direction of their juniors, ensuring cost-effective, timely completion and effective service delivery to the required standard on each engagement 
• Nurturing and seeking worthwhile relationships with clients, business departments and staff, for the sharing of information and to identify and progress current and future audit requirements  
• Preparing and negotiating fee proposals for existing clients and assisting in forming propositions for new business
• Assisting the senior leadership team in monitoring the effectiveness of audit services delivered, providing feedback and reflection on the quality of service accordingly
• Preparing reports to senior client management and audit committees.

Qualifications and Skills

• A first degree in Accounting or any related degree.
• A Chartered Accountant
• Leadership skills and ability to act as a role model
• Drive and resilience and ability to thrive in a pressured environment
• Well-developed supervisory skills e.g. coaching and motivation
• Strong communication skills
• 5 years minimum relevant working experience
• Ability to deliver under pressure
•  Ability to travel for business