External Audit Senior Associate

As a Senior Associate, you'll help to lead audit engagements, manage client relationships, and coach junior team members. Your expertise in accounting principles and auditing standards will ensure the accuracy of financial statements. Collaborate with diverse clients, from owner-managed businesses to multinational corporations, across many industries. Engage with global projects and leverage advanced technologies to drive client success. Benefit from extensive development opportunities and make a significant impact. A rewarding career path awaits - apply now to join our team! The role is based in any UK office, with team meetings at Embankment Place. What your days will look like:

• Project Management: Ensuring all documentation-from planning to completion-complies with PwC and regulatory standards, completing various tasks including the identification of issues and analysis of data to draw informed conclusions.
• Client Engagement: Building meaningful relationships, demonstrating curiosity and constructive challenge, and engaging in insightful conversations.
• Team Leadership: Delegating responsibilities, coaching and supervision of junior team members and offshore teams, creating learning opportunities and implementing effective audit approaches.
• Collaboration & Innovation: Building connections across PwC teams, managing diverse perspectives, developing new insights, and proposing innovative solutions to enhance audit quality.
  
  Demonstrated strong organisational skills with a proven track record of delivering high-quality audit work from planning through to completion
• Demonstrated experience working within the US market, including PCAOB standards and strong practical knowledge of SOX compliance
• Effective communication skills with the ability to build strong professional relationships
• Commitment to self-development, showing resilience and adaptability in a digital environment
• Experience with IFRS (mandatory) and UK GAAP (preferred), as well as familiarity with international auditing standards (ISAs)
• ACA, ACCA, or ICAS qualification (or an international equivalent), or equivalent work experience - including international candidates who qualify through professional experience in their home country
  
  In order to be the leading professional services firm it's important we have the right values, culture and behaviours embedded throughout our organisation, so our work reflects our purpose and we can successfully deliver our strategy.
Our values set the expectations for the way we interact with each other, our clients, and in the communities in which we operate. These values, and the behaviours that they require from us, are relevant to all our people regardless of grade. They support a culture that empowers our people to be the best they can be, through challenging experiences and encouraging our people to speak up to make the firm a better place. We want all our people to understand and embrace the culture and personally feel part of the legacy this will create for our future employees. We're a hugely diverse business, bound together by our purpose - to build trust in society and solve important problems for our clients and the communities in which we operate. We believe we can make the biggest impact when our purpose is embedded within everything we do.