Senior Executive – Audit & Accounting

About the role

The Senior Executive will split time between audit fieldwork on client engagements and the independent delivery of accounting, VAT and corporate tax compliance for outsourcing clients. Reporting to an Engagement Senior or Manager, you will lead audit sections, manage small accounting portfolios and coordinate directly with client finance teams.

Key responsibilities

• Assist in audit planning, prepare checklists and draft audit programmes.
• Execute substantive testing of revenue, purchases, payroll, fixed assets, inventory, receivables, payables, bank balances and equity.
• Document internal control narratives, identify weaknesses and test operating effectiveness.
• Prepare cross‑referenced audit working papers in line with ISA and firm methodology.
• Draft financial statements and notes under IFRS and IFRS for SMEs.
• Organise and attend physical inventory counts and fixed‑asset verifications.
• Issue and follow up bank, receivable, payable and legal confirmations.
• Compile audit queries, obtain client responses and support the preparation of management letters.
• Provide AML/CFT, client due‑diligence and Economic Substance Regulations support where required.
• Supervise and develop trainees or junior staff assigned to your sections.
• Maintain accounting books, deliver periodic VAT returns and corporate tax filings for outsourcing clients.

Required profile

• Qualified accountant or finance graduate with solid audit experience.
• Proven ability to work independently on audit engagements and accounting compliance tasks.
• Experience supervising junior team members and reviewing their work.
• Strong analytical mindset and attention to detail.

Required skills

• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and IFRS for SMEs.
• International Standards on Auditing (ISA).
• VAT compliance and corporate tax filing.
• Audit fieldwork techniques and substantive testing.
• Financial statement preparation.
• Internal control assessment.
• Anti‑Money Laundering (AML) and Economic Substance Regulations (ESR) knowledge.