External Audit Supervisor or Senior

About our company
Walker Wayland NSW is a leading and independent member of Walker Wayland Australasia which is proudly the 15th largest accounting firm in Australia encompassing members across Australia and New Zealand. The firm is also an independent member of BKR International representing expertise in accounting, taxation, and business advisory across 80 countries throughout the world. Our firm’s culture is to help business owners on their journey as they grow by adopting a holistic approach and offering wide range of services in business accounting, taxation, corporate advisory, audit, financial services, technology advisory services and more.

Our vision is to make the lives of our people, clients, community better through understanding and contributing to their journey of success.

Job Brief
We are looking for an experienced auditor (senior or supervisor) to join our Audit Team to support the delivery of external client engagements. You will have the opportunity to work with a range of Australian clients across various industries including private, public, not-for-profit or listed companies.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with the preparation of work papers with clean and concise reports in accordance with Audit Methodology
• Support in the preparation of statutory financial statements and understand tax computations including tax journals and
financial statement disclosures
• Strong working knowledge of Excel with the ability to filter, manipulate and interpret data
• Liaise with manager to ensure jobs are reviewed and completed on time
• Fully utilise Audit software program – Caseware

Requirements and skills

• You are an established Auditor with a minimum of 5+ years’ experience in a Public Practice firm and hold a CA or CPA
designation or are near completion.
• Understanding of Australian Accounting Standards (AASB), IFRS, Australian Auditing Standards (ASA) and relevant
legislation applicable to assurance engagements.
• Fluent in English
• 2+ years in a BPO or Work From Home environment
• Proven experience in a Virtual Auditor or relevant role
• Experience with an Australian audit company is preferred
• Experience in financial reporting
• Familiarity with current technologies, like desktop sharing, cloud services
• Excellent Microsoft office skills
• Good communicator and very organised
• A passion for delivering a high quality service to clients
• Outstanding attention to detail and time management, with the ability to work well under pressure.
• Ability to collaborate with a close-knit team as well as work under minimal supervision
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Previous experience with Xero and CaseWare is desirable.

Software

• MS Office 365 suite and MS Teams
• Caseware
• Xero (highly desirable)

Training
Your will be onboarded to our team with the relevant training (software and process) along with on-going ‘on the job training sessions.