Supervisor - Lubbock Fine - London
(2025-02 - 2025-07)
- Working as part of a team as well as completing audits independently planning to completion.
- Project management responsibility keeping senior leaders aware of progress and problem areas.
- Built long-term relationships with senior client stakeholders driving internal equality through advocating benefits of diverse teams.
- Cut team attrition by mentoring junior staff, championing professional development, and contributing to a high-performance culture.
- Acquired invaluable commercial insight via hands-on assessment of business models, controls and financial performance across multiple industries doing Going concern assessments.
Executive - Shipleys Accountants
(2024-07 - 2024-12)
- IFRS and UK GAAP audited entities experience in aerospace industry from £50m-£100m turnover.
- Built long-term relationships with senior client stakeholders, improving audit quality, driving an increase in repeat business across several clients, particularly within the private equity sector.
- Worked independently completing all fieldwork keeping the partner informed of progress.
- Assisted key clients with budgeting and forecasting to support financial planning and decision-making.
Executive - MHA
(2024-02 - 2024-05)
- Exposure to various industries including financial services, investment companies, aerospace.
- Audited entities with a turnover of £50 - £90m for IFRS reporting.
- Managed complex audit engagements under strict time constraints; balancing conflicting priorities and maintained attention to detail to ensure quality.
- Successfully secured new audit clients through targeted pitching and relationship management to grow audit department.
- Achieved successful fee increases across client engagements through effective negotiation and stakeholder management.
Assistant Manager - KPMG - Birmingham & London
(2017-10 - 2023-03)
- Ensuring high-quality and IFRS-compliant reporting under tight deadlines in a high performing Big 4 environment.
- Helped deliver the Aston Martin audit in time for their IPO public listing in 2018.
- Worked in large teams to deliver listed audits being Travis Perkin, BMW Group and Hill & Smith.
- Worked with key stake holders in the business to help improve employee morale.
- Developed a number of technical audit skills on complex areas like IFRS 16 and Goodwill impairment reviews including experience in challenging senior management on complex judgement areas.
- Preparing audit findings reports to be communicated to the audit committee of listed companies.
- Junior managed various audit clients around £450m turnover within the building and construction sector reporting under FRS 102.
- Delivered over 20 audits to deadline and within budget by managing teams across concurrent client engagements including overseas staff, ensuring high-quality outputs and efficient resource planning.
- Providing continuous feedback to juniors to aid with their continuous professional development.
- Assisted in delivering a new KPMG audit platform, supporting audit teams through change management and operational transition.
Audit & Account Senior - Crowe Clark Whitehill - Birmingham
(2014-08 - 2017-10)
Top 13 accountancy firm globally.
- Controlling audits from planning through to completion for clients with a £2m to £53m turnover.
- Experience in analysing company accounts through analytical reviews to identify potential audit risks.
- Produced financial statements for small to large companies under accounting standard FRS 102 including disclosures to ensure completeness and compliance with relevant standards.
- Producing audit findings reports informing clients on any controls weaknesses identified during the audit as well as any accounting errors identified within the accounts.
- Keeping managers and partners up to date on progress of the audit.
- Securing over-run fees of up to £2,000 on audit engagements.
- Reduced inefficiency-related costs on an engagement by 21% through targeted improvements in the audit strategy and workplan.
