Associate Director, Technical Standards and Compliance
Gravita, United Kingdom

We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a top 40 accounting firm working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.

Our focus on SME and small-cap listed clients means variety and learning for our team. We offer early exposure to CFOs and CEOs where you can be involved in interesting conversations and complex issues; you're not just a small cog in an enormous machine. You’ll have the opportunity to work across audits from start to finish, and make a real impact on clients whilst building strong technical knowledge across all areas and developing project and client leadership skills. All in a positive, supportive and diverse team.

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As an Associate Director, Technical and Compliance you'll enjoy working in fast-paced environments, you'll be able to operate independently and manage multiple projects at once, and you'll relish working with others to resolve complex technical problems. You will also be someone who can win the confidence of partners and staff within the Firm and the Firm’s network. You will also:

• Review the annual reports, financial statements and audit reports of listed entities to confirm compliance with accounting standards, auditing standards, company legislation and applicable regulatory requirements
• Triage technical support requests from across the firm, and provide technical support and advice on accounting and auditing matters to the Firm’s partners and staff
• Research, draft and respond to technical queries covering accounting, audit and UK company law matters.
• Develop and issue technical materials, guidance and articles for internal and external communication
• Develop and maintain log of technical and ethical issues and responses?

Requirements

• Professional accountancy qualification (e.g. ICAEW, ACCA or equivalent) with at least 3 years post-qualification experience.
• Good working knowledge of UK and International accounting standards (UK GAAP and IFRS), listing rules (e.g. AIM and AQSE), UK companies’ legislation, auditing standards (ISAs (UK)), ISQM 1 amp; 2 and the FRC’s Revised Ethical Standard
• Recognised and evidenced ability to apply the above referenced knowledge to deal with complex, multi-faceted issues and reach practical and supportable conclusions

• Previous experience of working in a similar technical position at an audit practice is desirable but not essential. The role is also suitable for an auditor demonstrating strong technical aptitude looking to move into a technical role as a key member of the team.
• Strong administrative (i.e. time and project management) and presentational skills

When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.

We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there. We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.

Benefits

At Gravita, we put people first. To ensure your wellbeing inside and outside of work, we regularly review and refresh our policies based on what matters most to our team. When you join Gravita you can expect:

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• 5% Employer pension contribution
• Enhanced parental and family leave
• Healthshield, reimbursing up to 100% of your everyday healthcare costs
• Employee assistance programme
• Enhanced sick leave
• Extensive learning and development support including Continuing Professional Development (CPD) allowance
• Reimbursement of one professional subscription per year
• Season ticket loan
• Perkbox
• Hybrid working arrangement (3 days in the office) and flexible starting/finishing hours

We are ambitious

Determined and armed with a can-do attitude, we aim to achieve big things. We innovate, challenge th

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