As a Senior Manager in Audit at Grant Thornton Kenya, you will be responsible for leading audit engagements, managing a diverse client portfolio, and driving business growth. This role involves high-level strategic oversight of audit processes, ensuring compliance with international standards, and fostering strong client relationships. You will also play a critical role in mentoring team members and contributing to the firm's operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Markets and Business Development
- Stay up to date with industry trends, regulatory changes, and emerging risks to provide relevant insights and maintain audit quality.
- Generate and pursue leads and prospects through client meetings, networking, and professional engagements.
- Identify and recommend additional firm services that provide value to clients.
- Drive revenue growth by identifying and securing new business opportunities through strategic client engagement and partnerships.
- Work closely with Partners and Directors to actively contribute to proposal development and pitching of services for new assignments.
- Review proposals in line with the Terms of Reference (TOR) and identify opportunities to generate revenue through new business or cross-selling.
- Represent and promote the firm’s brand by actively engaging in community and industry activities.
Client Management
- Understand client needs, their business, and key risks while maintaining good client service in line with established guidelines.
- Maintain confidentiality and handle client engagements with sensitivity.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the firm’s service offerings outside your area of practice.
- Manage the assigned client’s portfolio delivering high-quality audit and assurance services.
- Ensure timely, budget-compliant, and high-quality completion of client engagements.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with existing and target clients, ensuring retention and continued business growth.
- Meet and exceed expectations, adhere to reporting deadlines, and add value to each engagement.
- Participate in the optimization and rationalization of the client portfolio in liaison with the Audit Partner.
- Identify audit issues and communicate them promptly, maintaining the integrity and quality of the audit process.
People and Leadership
- Conduct performance reviews and ensure the effective implementation of all performance management processes.
- Provide feedback to team members through engagement review forms after client engagements.
- Supervise assigned team members, ensuring they execute tasks according to the established plan and maintain work quality.
- Provide coaching to support professional growth and offer technical guidance to the team as needed.
- Manage the team effectively, review working papers, and ensure conclusions are well-documented.
- Manage and supervise portfolios handled by In-charges, ensuring consistency and timely delivery.
- Motivate and inspire staff to achieve their full potential and facilitate learning through knowledge-sharing initiatives.
Operations and Quality Control
- Achieve set individual, portfolio revenue, and departmental targets.
- Budget and monitor the financial performance of each engagement to optimize profitability.
- Meet independence requirements throughout engagements and ensure compliance with professional standards.
- Ensure client acceptance and continuation processes are completed prior to engagement commencement.
- Act upon any external or internal audit findings to ensure continuous improvement in audit quality.
- Ensure engagement files are assembled and archived in accordance with firm requirements.
- Review audit policies and procedures as per the Quality Management Manual for relevance.
- Present audit reports and findings to clients during board meetings or equivalent forums.
- Maintain and update the engagement planner weekly to ensure efficient staff allocation.
- Ensure achievement of billing targets and timely collection of outstanding fees.
- Adhere to regulatory timelines and internal policies, procedures, and methodologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or any other related field.
- Professional qualification in CPA/ACCA or similar is mandatory.
- Minimum of four (4) years of experience specifically in Audit.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in a managerial position.
- Deep knowledge of new auditing standards and interpretation.
- Good understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) and their applications.
- Strong business development, client management, and people management skills.
