Audit Manager: Audit Delivery Centre

at  Deloitte

Company Description
Deloitte is the largest private professional services network in the world. Every day, approximately 312,000 professionals in more than 150 countries demonstrate their commitment to a single vision: to be the standard of excellence, while working towards one purpose – to make an impact that matters.
In South Africa, Deloitte is one of the leading professional services organisations, specialising in providing Audit, Tax, Consulting, Risk Advisory and Corporate Finance services. We serve clients in a variety of industries from financial services to consumer business, energy, mining and manufacturing, tourism and the public sector, and we provide powerful business solutions to some of the world’s most well-known and respected companies, including more than 80 percent of the Fortune 100.
Our professionals are unified by a collaborative culture that fosters integrity, outstanding value to markets and clients, commitment to each other, and strength from cultural diversity. They are dedicated to strengthening corporate responsibility, building public trust, and making a positive impact in their communities. We understand that our professionals hold interests outside of the workspace and we aim to encourage work/life balance, supporting them in all aspects of their lives.
Our talented professionals and our clients understand the link between a strong learning and development programme and the ability for Deloitte to deliver on its promise of consistent, high-quality service delivery worldwide.
Whatever your age, gender or culture, take your career to the next level with the talents and capabilities you’ll develop at Deloitte.
Job Description

The incumbent to the role will be responsible for ensuring that services offered by the audit delivery center are effectively delivered to their respective clients by successfully managing their teams and day-to-day operations of the center. Some of the key responsibilities include:

• Managing and optimising your team’s workflow and utilisation to ensure the allocation, completion and delivery of audit package work is to a high standard and quality within an appropriate time frame.
• Helping to promote the delivery center through presentations and other marketing activity for chosen
• Ensuring your team achieve their KPIs, identifying performance gaps and, through effective use of talent standards, supporting the team to address these.
• Supporting, advising and monitoring team members in the completion and delivery of a range of audit tasks and undertaking detailed reviews of their work.
• Building relationships with your Member firms and acting as the overarching point of contact for engagement teams in relation to the completion and delivery of audit work.
• Manage and deal with any issues raised by your engagement teams ensuring timely response and working in partnership with them to resolve.
• Pro-active day to day management of your team to include monitoring team attendance and addressing any issues, completion of return to work discussions after sickness absence, correct allocation and booking of annual leave in adherence to local procedures.
• Pro-active management and monitoring of performance and address early concerns coaching and escalating where required.
• Monitoring staff welfare and support needs and addressing any potential issues seeking support if required.

QUALIFICATIONS

• A qualified CA(SA) with 2-3 years post article experience in Audit. 1 of these years needs to be in a management role.
• Previous experience in an Audit Delivery Centre would be advantageous
  Additional Information

• Managing and optimising your team’s workflow and utilisation to ensure the allocation, completion and delivery of audit package work is to a high standard and quality within an appropriate time frame.
• Helping to promote the delivery center through presentations and other marketing activity for chosen
• Ensuring your team achieve their KPIs, identifying performance gaps and, through effective use of talent standards, supporting the team to address these.
• Supporting, advising and monitoring team members in the completion and delivery of a range of audit tasks and undertaking detailed reviews of their work.
• Building relationships with your Member firms and acting as the overarching point of contact for engagement teams in relation to the completion and delivery of audit work.
• Manage and deal with any issues raised by your engagement teams ensuring timely response and working in partnership with them to resolve.
• Pro-active day to day management of your team to include monitoring team attendance and addressing any issues, completion of return to work discussions after sickness absence, correct allocation and booking of annual leave in adherence to local procedures.
• Pro-active management and monitoring of performance and address early concerns coaching and escalating where required.
• Monitoring staff welfare and support needs and addressing any potential issues seeking support if required