Audit Assistant Manager
Cheltenham – Full Time
Permanent
Salary - DOE
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified audit professional ready to step into a leadership role and take ownership of high-profile, complex audit engagements.
You’ll lead teams, manage client relationships, and deliver audits from planning through to completion. The role offers real autonomy, exposure to large and sophisticated clients, and the chance to shape how audits are delivered in a fast-moving, quality-driven environment.
The Opportunity
As an Audit Assistant Manager, you’ll combine technical excellence with people leadership and commercial awareness.
Your role will involve:
- Leading end-to-end statutory audits, from initial planning through to final sign-off
- Taking ownership of delivery, budgets, and timelines, ensuring work is completed efficiently and to a high standard
- Leading, mentoring, and developing audit teams on site and remotely
- Reviewing work prepared by junior team members and providing clear, constructive feedback
- Supporting senior stakeholders on large and complex audit assignments, including group audits
- Managing a portfolio of audit clients alongside project-based work
- Producing insightful findings and recommendations that add real value to clients
What You’ll Bring
You’ll be confident, commercially aware, and motivated by responsibility and challenge.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Is fully qualified with a recognised professional accounting body
- Has strong experience leading audits within a professional services environment
- Is comfortable working with complex groups, reporting structures, and multiple stakeholders
- Has a strong understanding of audit risk, controls, and business processes
- Can translate technical findings into clear, practical advice
- Is organised, proactive, and thrives in a deadline-driven environment
- Is committed to ongoing learning and professional development
If you’re looking for a role that combines technical challenge, leadership, and genuine progression in a supportive and forward-thinking environment, this could be a great next move.
Apply now or get in touch to explore this exciting opportunity.
If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, click Apply to upload your CV for consideration.
Alternatively, contact Valentina Williams on 07551837900 or Valentina@autographrecruitment.co.uk for a confidential discussion.
If this role isn’t quite right for you but you’re exploring new opportunities in Accountancy & Finance, we’d love to have a chat about your next step.
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