Audit Manager - FTC
Posted Today by Sowena Group
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary: Sowena Group is seeking an experienced Audit Manager for a 3-month fixed-term contract to support a global analytics and data solutions provider in preparing for the FY25 audit cycle. The role involves enhancing audit workpapers and ensuring a clean, audit-ready file with minimal oversight. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of audit experience and a strong ability to deliver complete audit sections efficiently. This position is based in Manchester and offers hybrid working arrangements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assess and standardise existing workpapers
- Create a consistent, reusable workpaper suite
- Deliver a clean, well-indexed audit file ready for external auditor review
- Provide coverage during key periods, including staff absences
Key Skills:
- 5+ years of audit experience, ideally at Audit Manager or Senior Manager level
- Trained within a structured audit environment (regional, national, Top 20, or Big Four firm)
- Experience reviewing, correcting, or rebuilding client-provided audit files
- Proven ability to deliver full audit sections and complete audit files
- Organised, detail-focused, and able to work in a lean finance environment
- Calm under pressure and able to meet tight deadlines
- Strong communicator, able to articulate documentation needs
- Solutions-oriented, applying audit discipline without deep business knowledge
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Sowena Group have been exclusively assigned to support a global analytics and data solutions provider in preparing for the FY25 audit cycle. We are seeking an experienced audit professional to prepare, structure, and enhance audit workpapers, delivering a clean, audit-ready file with minimal oversight and supporting efficient external audit review. This role strengthens audit readiness, reduces audit risk, and adds structure to a lean Finance function during a critical period.
Profile
- 5+ years of audit experience, ideally at Audit Manager or Senior Manager level
- Trained within a structured audit environment (regional, national, Top 20, or Big Four firm)
- Experience reviewing, correcting, or rebuilding client-provided audit files
- Proven ability to deliver full audit sections and complete audit files
Key Attributes
- Organised, detail-focused, and able to work in a lean finance environment
- Calm under pressure and able to meet tight deadlines
- Strong communicator, able to articulate documentation needs
- Solutions-oriented, applying audit discipline without deep business knowledge
Responsibilities
- Assess and standardise existing workpapers
- Create a consistent, reusable workpaper suite
- Deliver a clean, well-indexed audit file ready for external auditor review
- Provide coverage during key periods, including staff absences
Contract: 3-month FTC, Manchester-based, hybrid working.