Audit Assistant Manager Public Sector

Role & responsibilities

• Deliver highquality audit work in line with firm methodology, regulatory standards, and public sector reporting requirements.
• Support UK engagement managers by supervising, coaching, and guiding offshore audit team members.
• Participate in engagement planning, execution, and completion meetings, providing insights to enhance audit quality and risk coverage. Manage assigned audit areas within agreed timelines, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
• Monitor progress, manage deadlines, and communicate clear status updates to engagement leaders. Maintain robust audit documentation and ensure timely clearance of review notes.
• Act as a key liaison for engagement managers and, where required, client stakeholders, ensuring transparent and effective communication. Draft audit completion documents, management letters, donor reporting packages, and other statutory or regulatory deliverables.
• Provide constructive feedback and onthejob coaching to junior team members. Build strong working relationships across onshore and offshore teams to ensure smooth coordination and issue resolution.

Preferred candidate profile

• Qualified CA / ACCA (or equivalent) qualification.
• 5-7 year Experience in leading external audits from planning through to completion.
• Relevant strategic market audit experience.
• Up-to-date technical knowledge of UK GAAP / FRS102 and IFRS.
• Experience of managing and coaching audit trainees.
• Experience of using audit software and Microsoft Office package
• Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Actively seeks to enhance expertise and knowledge, operate with a curious and sceptical mindset.
• Ability to identify issues through sound analysis and application of sector knowledge in all situations.
• Aids, shares experience, provides meaningful feedback and proactively supports the development of others.

Self-driven, takes ownership of the work, effectively delegates to juniors within the team and takes responsibility for quality control