Audit Partner – Leeds - #2129171

Leeds | Full-Time | Hybrid & Flexible Working | Competitive Salary + Benefits

Keywords: Audit Partner, Audit Director, Audit RI, Responsible Individual, External Audit, Audit & Assurance, ACA, ACCA, RI, Accountancy Practice, SME, Mid-Market, UK GAAP, IFRS, Leeds

We're recruiting an experienced Audit Partner or Audit Director ready to step up to join a growing accountancy practice in Leeds.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious audit professional to take a leading role across client delivery, audit quality, team leadership and business development, working with a varied portfolio of SMEs, owner-managed businesses and larger groups.

• Lead and oversee a portfolio of audit and assurance engagements
• Build and maintain strong, long-term client relationships
• Deliver high-quality audits in line with UK GAAP, IFRS and professional standards
• Act as a trusted adviser, providing commercially focused insight to clients
• Identify and develop new business opportunities
• Support the strategic growth and development of the audit practice
• Lead, mentor and develop audit teams
• Drive audit quality, technical excellence and continuous improvement
• Work collaboratively with other service lines to deliver integrated client solutions
• Contribute to the firm's wider strategic and commercial objectives

• ACA, ACCA or equivalent qualified
• Significant post-qualified external audit experience
• Proven experience leading audits and managing client relationships
• Strong technical knowledge of UK GAAP, IFRS and auditing standards
• Experience working with SMEs, owner-managed businesses and/or larger groups
• Previous experience at Audit Manager, Senior Manager, Director or Partner level
• RI status, or the ability and willingness to obtain RI status
• Strong commercial awareness and business development skills
• Excellent leadership, communication and relationship-building skills
• Entrepreneurial and proactive approach with the ambition to contribute at Partner level

• Hybrid and flexible working
• Competitive Partner-level package
• Opportunity to help grow the Leeds audit practice
• Significant client-facing and business development responsibility
• Diverse portfolio of clients and sectors
• Leadership and team development opportunities
• Supportive and collaborative senior leadership environment
• Clear long-term career progression
• Opportunity to influence the future direction of the practice

Leeds, West Yorkshire

Commutable from Bradford, Wakefield, Harrogate, Huddersfield, York, Halifax and surrounding areas.

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