The Review Consultant will work as part of a dedicated team, performing day to day residential service charge work autonomously and at a high quality, managing client specific projects to achieve client KPIs. The Review Consultant takes significant responsibility for management of the client and supporting team, reporting directly to the Manager. They will have primary responsibility for ensuring that input, output and project management are of the highest quality.

Key Performance Areas:

• Initial examination of service charge accounts, dependent on scope of work.
• Preparation of service charge accounts.
• Initial review of audit teams work to ensure all testing performed and concluded on and performing quality control review of any queries and adjustments sent to client.
• Reviewing and concluding on client responses to the audit queries and adjustments and following up on outstanding issues by phone, email and in person.
• Preparation of accountants’ or auditors’ reports, dependent on scope of work.
• Preparation of client required schedules – both internal and those to be issued with draft reports.
• Liaising with clients as needed, dealing with issues which may arise, escalating to Managers as required.
• Clearing Managers / Director review points.
• Taking on responsibility for project management (e.g. managing the chasing of files, ensuring workload is monitored and turnaround times are adhered to, supporting Managers to meet KPIs, understanding the status of developments).
• Managing client coordinators and executives for specific clients.
• Supporting the Managers / Director to provide training to clients on IT systems, BDO process and technical issues.
• Involvement in new client transitions with guidance from managers.
• Setting up regular team Q&A meetings, managing own and members of the specific client teams’ workload. Delegating tasks where necessary and ensuring you work as a team. Providing constructive feedback and coaching to other team members.
• Having technical knowledge of the area of work.
• Taking a role in training service charge team.
• Be a leader in identifying and implementing process improvements and efficiencies.
• Maintain awareness of risk and deliver high quality documents.
• Assist with business development, proposals and pitches for new work.
• Ad hoc administration tasks for the service charge team.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Diploma in Accounting or Internal Auditing
• 2 years work experience

Competency Requirements:

• Project management skills (Preferred)
• Emotional intelligence
• Excellent communication skills
• Team player
• Self motivated
• Ability to cope under pressure and achieve deadlines

The appointment will be made in terms of the firm’s Employment Equity Policy.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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