Job Description

As a Technical Accounting Assistant Manager, you will oversee the application of complex accounting standards and lead critical accounting and valuation projects. Your responsibilities include managing the preparation of purchase price allocations and other valuations, providing leadership and technical guidance to your team, and ensuring rigorous compliance with accounting regulations. This role is pivotal in solving advanced accounting and valuation challenges, and enhancing financial reporting accuracy.

Who are Azets

Client Focus

Takes full responsibility for own clients and resource planning in relation to their client portfolio. Ensure assignments are diarised and delivered in line with client deadlines and expectations Introduction to fee conversations with clients, with the support of senior management Ensure up to date engagement terms are in place for all active client services, and revise accordingly for any changes in scope or service lines as and when changes arise Develops a clear understanding of clients' business, challenges and risks sufficiently to brief more junior colleagues Identify variations to initial engagement scope at an early stage of an assignment and propose approach and ad-hoc fees for any additional work for director/partner approval, so that full value can be recognised Demonstrates opportunities to develop value added services for the client Provides feedback to clients on progress and outcomes of jobs Holds clients to account on the quality and timeliness of agreed deliverables.

Technical Excellence

Has a sound knowledge of technical and professional standards, and can draw on this to enlighten colleagues and clients in specific and relevant areas Confident in training others in technical knowledge Be able to develop bid and pricing proposals for noncomplex work. Commitment Undertakes line management responsibilities including performance reviews of appropriate junior colleagues Supporting junior colleagues in developing action plans based on feedback received.

Attention to Detail

Performs review of key areas of the assignment ensuring working papers and conclusions reached are presented well and justified Takes pride in own work and takes personal responsibility for ensuring that the final product is accurate or high quality, and presented well.

Decision Making

Confident in taking decisions within agreed remit Deals with instances of colleagues failing to adopt core values and respect by either addressing or escalating to senior team members when aware Suggests solutions to problems rather than waiting for suggestions from senior colleagues Supporting managers in delegated aspects of team management such as sickness reporting and holiday approvals. Participate in the interview and selection process for new junior hires.

Efficiency

Communicates effectively when scope or timescales need to change Review work in progress (WIP) under own control and raise draft fees for approval considering stage of completion and work undertaken Delivers work within agreed scope and timescales, meeting deadlines efficiently achieving desired recovery rates.

Living Our Values

New to Azets: Shows good understanding of our company values, and making good progress towards consistently demonstrating required behaviours Existing Colleague: Consistently 'lives our values' - demonstrates expected behaviours in line with our company values OR: Is a role model for our company values, is seen as an 'Ambassador' who leads by example.

Compliance

Demonstrate the ability to identify gaps in financial statements, i.e. not just identifying incorrect aspects but identifying missed considerations. The ability to identify potential recommendations for clients to improve their financial processing or improve financial statement results by applying certain accounting policies etc. Be able to review more complex sets of accounts and consolidations to a good level. Be proficient at preparing cash flow statements and related workings. Deal with queries directly with the client. Have good communication skills to keep the team apprised. Commercial awareness - own and team time management.

Advisory

To be able to peer-review other technical reports/advice and highlight any gaps in the rationale/conclusions reached. To be able to develop the team on new and complex accounting matters and identify training needs. To be able to lead meetings on relevant technical accounting queries raised within Azets.

Purchase Price Allocations

Action modelling best practice and strong project filing. Models should hold the suitable level of information for a reviewer to take away and understand. To confidently have full Model ownership of single CGU PPAs and begin to take ownership of independent valuation models. Confidently be able to independently perform a MEEM calculation start-to-finish (including input consideration). Begin delegating and reviewing larger aspects of Valuation projects (e.g. CapIQ data that has been linked and formatted in models, benchmarking tabs, WACCs). Begin to arrange upwards internal meetings for Manager/SM reviews.

Share-Based Payments

Review simple Monte Carlo valuations with accompanying waterfall and report. Prepare the team's most complex Monte Carlo simulations and waterfall models, with the ability to discuss complex theories on any complexities. Have the confidence to lead the bulk of the client meetings, explaining the valuation prepared, the inputs applied and any complexities that have arisen.

Skills and experience:

Achieved an accountancy qualification or be qualified by experience (e.g. ACA/ACCA/CA). It is expected that the above core and technical skills will have been developed through study alongside work experience in an accountancy practice.

What's in it for you?

Our benefits include hybrid & flexible working, birthday leave, professional subscription and much more. You can find out more about how we reward our colleagues - Careers | Rewards And Benefits | Azets UK



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Job Reference: AZ04847