Senior / Assistant Manager, Financial Services Audit

Job description

Location : Geneva, Zurich

Work Pattern Percentage : 60-100%

Help our clients successfully manage global challenges

Our purpose as audit and assurance professionals is building trust and confidence in business and protecting the public interest.

Audit quality has never been more critical for stakeholders, people and society.

Together with your future colleagues, you will conduct audit missions with very diverse national and international clients.

You will be able to work independently while benefiting from the expert advice of our experienced staff and enjoying exceptional learning.

You will contribute and actively participate in the development of our services, learn a lot about people and businesses and get a lot of responsibility at this level of your career.

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

From Assistant Manager level and above we can offer coaching and support for this position, especially designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a longer career break.

If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

How you can make an impact

You will be :

• involved in providing auditing and assurance services to our portfolio of international and local banking and securities firm clients.
• leading execution of the financial and regulatory audit and audit teams during the fieldwork at clients, managing and coaching junior team members.
• interacting directly with senior management of the audit team and audit clients to discuss audit observations and recommendations for improvement.
• working on complex financial areas, including goodwill, loan loss provisioning, trading and financial investments / financial instrument valuations and consolidations under international and local GAAP
• working on regulatory areas such as anti-money laundering, organisation and internal control, client and market conduct, risk management, solvency and liquidity, consolidated supervision.
• supporting and strengthening the continued training and development of our growing audit team.
• given the opportunity to show your leadership and talent to build new client relationships and attract new business.

Who we are looking for

You :

• have a Bachelor's or Master's degree and started your curriculum to become a Swiss Certified Public Accountant or are interested in doing so
• have two to four years of external audit experience, ideally in a Big4 environment
• have practical experience with accounting such as OR, IFRS and US GAAP and FINMA regulatory requirements for banks
• are a resilient team player, working independently, efficiently and solution-oriented
• enjoy working as part of a team and your experience with customers means building customer relationships comes easily to you
• communicate confidently in English, as well as French (Geneva) or German (Zurich). Any further language is an advantage.
• work independently and are motivated by new challenges. You are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and like taking on new responsibilities.
• are driven to play an active role in the continuous transformation of the audit by further improving the level of assurance, data and audit insights and efficiency of delivery.

Your team

Become part of a diverse, multinational and highly motivated team at our Geneva or Zurich offices. We will help you grow both personally and professionally : through our trainings, mentoring programmes and on-the-job learning, but also by connecting with your colleagues across all business lines.