Audit Senior - Top 15 Practice
Job description
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TPF Recruitment, Kent’s leading accountancy practice recruitment agency is recruiting for an Audit senior to join a fantastic top 15 chartered accountancy practice in Maidstone.
Our client is a market-leading accountancy practice in Kent with a fantastic reputation and ability to offer some of the best client exposure across corporates, not-for-profits, listed businesses (AIM & FTSE) and international businesses.
The practice offers a market-leading benefits package, and fantastic internal progression prospects to Assistant Managers and beyond, and they're one of the best-paying practices in the South-East too. They have a modern office, with excellent facilities and a strong staff retention rate too.
As an Audit Senior, your typical daily duties will include;
- Leading audits with the support of a fantastic team around you
- Control each assignment, ensuring that they meet agreed budget and timeline
- Managing the audit team whilst on site to ensure that all work is carried out to a high standard and all queries are resolved with the client satisfactorily where possible
- Guide and supervise more junior members of staff
- Statutory accounts preparation
- Other ad-hoc consultancy assignment
Requirements
Audit Senior - Top 15 Practice Maidstone £48,000- £52,000
- ACA/ ACCA qualified or nearly qualified
- Extensive audit experience, working within a Practice environment
- Confident and comfortable providing exceptional client service and delivery
- Team player who wants to join a 'family' of like-minded individuals
- A dynamic approach - adapts quickly to change and can find smart ways to deliver the best results
Benefits
Audit Senior - Top 15 Practice Maidstone £48,000- £52,000
- £48,000- £52,000
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave
- 5% pension
- Life Assurance
- Income protection
- Highly competitive flexible benefits package
- Please apply or contact Tristan Finch for a confidential conversation
Key skills
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Application advice
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⭐ Lead your CV personal statement with your ACA or ACCA status (qualified or nearly qualified) as the advert lists this as the primary requirement.
📊 Quantify your audit experience: e.g. 'Led audits for 8 corporate and AIM-listed clients, managing teams of 4 and delivering within agreed budgets across 12 engagements per year'.
🎯 Explicitly reference experience across the client types mentioned — corporates, not-for-profits, listed businesses (AIM/FTSE), and international entities — as these are highlighted differentiators for this practice.
🤝 Highlight supervisory experience over junior staff, as guiding and developing trainees is called out as a core daily duty in the advert.
📋 Include a bullet on statutory accounts preparation separately from audit work, as the advert lists it as a distinct responsibility alongside ad-hoc consultancy assignments.
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- •Led end-to-end external audits for a portfolio of 10 clients including AIM-listed and not-for-profit entities, consistently delivering within agreed budgets and achieving sign-off within 3 weeks of fieldwork completion.
- •Supervised and developed a 3-person junior audit team across 6 concurrent assignments, reducing review points by 30% through targeted on-site coaching and structured query resolution with clients.
- •Prepared statutory accounts for 8 corporate clients under FRS 102, supporting the audit manager in identifying and resolving 4 material misstatements prior to final sign-off.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
A Top 15 chartered accountancy practice with a client portfolio spanning AIM-listed, FTSE, not-for-profit, and international businesses is precisely where I want to take my audit career — which is why the Audit Senior position at your Maidstone office immediately stood out. I bring extensive external audit experience gained within a practice environment, alongside ACA qualification, and a track record of leading on-site teams while keeping assignments on budget and on time.
My background in audit senior work includes managing junior staff through complex engagements, preparing statutory accounts, and maintaining strong client relationships throughout the audit cycle. I have delivered across a range of client types, including corporate and not-for-profit entities, and I am comfortable handling client queries directly and escalating where appropriate.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Walk us through how you plan and structure an audit from initial engagement to sign-off.
- ›How do you ensure an audit assignment stays within agreed budget and timeline when unexpected issues arise?
- ›What experience do you have auditing AIM-listed or FTSE-listed businesses, and what additional considerations do these engagements require?
- ›How do you approach statutory accounts preparation alongside a live audit engagement?
- ›Describe your experience auditing not-for-profit organisations — what are the key differences compared to corporate audits?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you managed a junior team member who was underperforming on an audit assignment. What did you do?
- ›Describe a situation where an audit was at risk of missing its deadline. How did you handle it?
- ›Give an example of a difficult client query you resolved during an on-site audit. What was the outcome?
- ›Tell me about a time you had to adapt quickly to a significant change mid-assignment. How did you respond?
- ›Describe a time you identified a material issue during an audit that the client had not flagged. How did you manage the conversation?
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Describe a situation where an audit was at risk of missing its deadline. How did you handle it?
Tell me about a time you managed a junior team member who was underperforming on an audit assignment. What did you do?