Assurance Senior Associate- Flexible Work Options

 PwC is the leading practice in tax, assurance and advisory in the city of Aberdeen and offer a diverse range of services and therefore opportunities for newcomers to our organisation.

This current opportunity has arisen due to the success and growth of the practice which presents further career progression and development potential for the successful applicants.

As a Senior Associate you will have a key role on audit assignments.  You will be reporting directly to a Manager/Senior Manager and ultimately to a Director/Partner within the audit practice.  As a result, this role will provide you with an excellent opportunity to develop your personal and technical skills.

In addition to developing your personal and technical skills, the role will offer you:

Experience of working on prestigious accounts and pieces of work
Opportunity to work on multinational upstream oil and gas and oilfield service majors
Exposure to senior management and partners of the firm
Exposure to current thinking in Corporate Governance and Risk Management
Leading implementer for International Accounting Standards

You will have the opportunity to progress to your career to manager level and beyond.

About Aberdeen

Aberdeen is Scotland's third largest city.  North Sea oil is at the core of Aberdeen's prosperity, but there is much more besides to fire the imagination. 

The city is very vibrant and economically successful, it&rsquos a great place to live and work - driven by oil but also other aspects such as investment in infrastructure. Highlights include the world renowned University, Sports Village, Olympic sized pool (50 m), golf facilities (e.g. the new Trump Resort) and the Council. High levels of employment and great quality of life consistently lift it to near the top of the list of the most desirable places to live in the UK year after year

In addition, Aberdeen is a diverse and exciting place to live with a wide range of facilities including a varied nightlife, several shopping centres and opportunities to participate in outdoor pursuits.  It has easy access to Royal Deeside known for its hill walks and beautiful landscapes, and the mountains of the wild Cairngorms, Glencoe and the Speyside Malt Whisky Trail are all within easy driving distance. 

It has very good travel connections and has daily flights to London, the major cities in the UK and Europe, and has easy access by road and rail to the principal cities in Scotland, Edinburgh and Glasgow.  The office has its own Sports and Social Club, arranging everything from wine tasting evenings to football and squash.  We also give our staff the support to take on more corporate and social responsibility activities such as fund-raising, responsible procurement, cycle to work, mentoring at schools and work with social enterprises - both on an ad hoc and strategic basis.

 

About the role

 

Aberdeen is a linchpin office in the global Oil & Gas network - we refer work out of Aberdeen, send our people around the globe through our extensive Global Mobility Network to such countries as USA, Russia, West Africa, S Africa, Europe, South East Asia, Canada, the Far East and Australia. In addition the Aberdeen office itself is very multi-cultural with over ten nationalities currently being represented.

Joining as a Senior Associate, you can expect to be involved in a variety of interesting and challenging work.  Your responsibilities would include:

Providing audit and business advice to a variety of clients
Building and maintaining strong relationships with new and established clients
Working as part of a team, liaising with both client and other specialist staff in the practice to provide high quality client services
Providing an on-site coordination role for audit clients including the coaching and training of junior staff
Supervising teams and reporting directly to senior staff
Working as part of our business development strategy team in the local marketplace 

As you will be joining as a Senior Associate in Core Assurance, a large part of your role will be within Audit but a growing piece of our business is around risk advisory, transactions and non-audit assurance and we would look to be challenging our assurance Senior Associates to help develop this in the market and execute the work. Our work is more than just the major clients in the region - we work on private equity, growing local businesses, crown jewels (such as Wood Group), Research & Development, start ups, independent/ listed E&P companies etc.

There are also a number of additional areas that Senior Associates can get involved in. Some of these include:

Graduate and Experienced Recruitment interviewing
Tutoring on a variety of courses
Champion for various initiatives

Competitive Salary on Offer

Closing date 19th September 

 

Requirements

 

Essential requirements:

CA /ACCA/ACA is essential
Experience of financial reporting frameworks such as UK GAAP or IFRS and auditing frameworks such as UK ISAs
Extensive experience of the audit from planning to completion, across a diverse range of assignments
Flexibility in your approach to meeting goals as part of the team
Ability to communicate clearly with colleagues and clients at all levels
A proven track record of establishing and maintaining strong relationships and providing exceptional client service
A proactive approach to problem solving and delivering client solutions
Candidates will also be required to demonstrate the ability to contribute to new initiatives, whether building relationships with target clients or other business development activities
A reasonable degree of flexibility in relation to travel will be expected to serve the regional nature of our client base
Demonstrable strong analytical skills and organisational abilities
Well developed listening and questioning techniques
Action oriented with a strong desire for continuous improvement

Desirable requirements:

Oil and Gas industry experience
Commitment
Enthusiasm to contribute to the growth of the business

 

 

The skills we look for in future employees.

 

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients.  These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, &lsquoThe PwC Professional&rsquo.

 

The PwC Professional focuses on five core attributes whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.  We use this framework to recruit, develop and assess our people, at all grades and all areas of our business, because we expect all of our people to be leaders.

 

Diversity

 

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.  We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society.  And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths.  Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business.  

 

 

As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.