Role & responsibilities

- Deliver highquality audit work in line with firm methodology, regulatory standards, and public sector reporting requirements.

- Support UK engagement managers by supervising, coaching, and guiding offshore audit team members.

- Participate in engagement planning, execution, and completion meetings, providing insights to enhance audit quality and risk coverage. Manage assigned audit areas within agreed timelines, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance.

- Monitor progress, manage deadlines, and communicate clear status updates to engagement leaders. Maintain robust audit documentation and ensure timely clearance of review notes.

- Act as a key liaison for engagement managers and, where required, client stakeholders, ensuring transparent and effective communication. Draft audit completion documents, management letters, donor reporting packages, and other statutory or regulatory deliverables.

- Provide constructive feedback and onthejob coaching to junior team members.



Build robust working relationships across onshore and offshore teams to ensure smooth coordination and issue resolution.

Preferred candidate profile

- Qualified CA / ACCA (or equivalent) qualification.

- 5-7 year Experience in leading external audits from planning through to completion.

- Relevant strategic market audit experience.

- Up-to-date technical knowledge of UK GAAP / FRS102 and IFRS.

- Experience of managing and coaching audit trainees.

- Experience of using audit software and Microsoft Office package

- Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills.

- Actively seeks to enhance expertise and knowledge, operate with a curious and sceptical mindset.

- Ability to identify issues through sound analysis and application of sector knowledge in all situations.

- Aids, shares experience, provides meaningful feedback and proactively supports the development of others.

Self-driven, takes ownership of the work, effectively delegates to juniors within the team and takes responsibility for quality control

📌 Audit Assistant Manager Public Sector (Pune)
🏢 Forvis Mazars
📍 Pune