Manager, Audit and Assurance

Reporting to our Head of Professional Standards, the Manager - Audit and Assurance Services will be responsible for leading, managing, and reviewing the CPA Australia Best Practice Program with a focus on members who offer audit and assurance services, ensuring that sufficient member assessments are undertaken each year and are completed to a high standard, providing value to members. Reporting into Melbourne, this role can be located in any of our capital city offices around Australia.

Your Key Duties:

• Lead and oversee a team of internal assessors allocated to the assessment of members providing audit and assurance services, developing clear operational plans to ensure high quality and timely delivery to members with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Manage the utilization of external assessor resources to assist in the assessment of members with higher risk profiles.
• Motivate and coach the Audit and Assurance Services Best Practice team to meet business objectives and develop team capability.
• Provide trusted advice and guidance to others in and interacting with the CPA Australia Best Practice Program.
• Assist in developing necessary reports and communications to internal governance committees and external stakeholders and regulators as required.

About you:

You will have a strong background as a highly experienced, risk-focused audit professional in the accounting/audit/financial services industry. You will drive quality outcomes for the CPA Australia Best Practice Program. Prior experience as a quality reviewer of large/complex financial statement audit engagements will ensure the CPA Australia Best Practice Program is risk-focused with an objective of continuous improvement and feedback into CPA's education products.

Excellent communication and member engagement skills will be essential to success in this role, which include the ability to work to applicable professional standards, explain member requirements, whilst also maintaining a strong sense of empathy and ability to engage with all staff and members. A good working knowledge of the regulatory framework is essential to be successful in this position. You are degree qualified and a current Member of CPA Australia or equivalent. You come with knowledge of the Accounting Profession and the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards (APES) framework.

Why we love working here:

• We are a values-led organisation: we create opportunity, pursue excellence, and achieve together.
• Health and wellbeing sessions, learning labs, and a generous reward and recognition program.
• The people: you'll work with like-minded and talented colleagues who aspire to be the best.
• Our members: they are at the heart of everything that we do.
• Hybrid working: spend at least two days a week in the office and choose where you spend the other three.
• Busy, fast-paced, and we are passionate about what we do.
• Paid parental, volunteer, study leave, and the ability to purchase additional leave.
• Learning & professional development opportunities.
• We are global, so global mindsets are encouraged.

About Us:

CPA Australia is Australia's leading professional accounting body and one of the largest in the world. We have more than 173,000 members in over 100 countries and regions. Our core services include education, training, technical support, and advocacy. CPA Australia provides thought leadership on local, national, and international issues affecting the accounting profession and public interest. We engage with governments, regulators, and industries to advocate policies that stimulate sustainable economic growth and have positive business and public outcomes.

We are a values-based organisation underpinned by the CPA Australia Way, which is our commitment to each other and a way of working. It is the foundation of our success, experienced and lived by our people, and felt by members.

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