Grant Thornton Gibraltar
Audit Quality Oversight - Associate Director / Director – Dublin
Audit Quality Oversight - Associate Director / Director – Dublin
As part of our continued investment in audit quality, we are seeking an experienced audit professional to join our Audit Quality & Oversight team.
This is a high-profile position within the Audit practice, offering the opportunity to influence audit quality across the firm's most significant and complex engagements, including Public Interest Entity (PIE) Audits.
Working closely with Audit Partners, engagement teams and quality leadership, you will contribute to the firm's audit quality agenda through independent insight, challenge and quality improvement initiatives. You will provide insight, challenge and guidance on significant audit judgements, support the consistent application of best practice, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the firm's audit quality and regulatory response framework.
This position is ideally suited to a senior audit professional looking to broaden their impact beyond individual client engagements and help drive audit excellence across a dynamic and growing practice.
The Role
As an Associate Director / Director, you will provide independent insight and professional challenge on complex audit matters while helping to shape quality outcomes across the firm.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Providing independent review and challenge on significant audit judgements, conclusions and complex audit matters.
- Partnering with Audit Partners and senior engagement teams to support robust decision-making on matters of complexity, risk and professional judgement.
- Supporting and promoting consistency in the application of auditing standards, regulatory requirements and leading audit practices.
- Identifying emerging audit quality themes, regulatory developments and opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Supporting the design and implementation of strategic audit quality initiatives across the practice.
- Contributing to the firm's response to regulatory inspections and evolving stakeholder expectations.
- Sharing insights and contributing to discussions that enhance audit quality, professional scepticism and audit excellence.
- Building strong relationships and influencing senior stakeholders through credible, balanced and commercially aware challenge.
Who We Are Looking For
We are seeking an experienced audit professional operating at Associate Director, Director or equivalent level who combines strong technical capability with the ability to influence and engage effectively with senior stakeholders.
You will have:
- Significant experience working on large and complex audit engagements, ideally within a PIE environment.
- Strong technical expertise in auditing standards and financial reporting requirements.
- A deep understanding of audit quality, regulatory expectations and professional judgement.
- The ability to assess complex matters objectively, focusing on the issues most critical to audit quality.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage constructively with senior audit professionals.
Curiosity, critical thinking and a commitment to continuous improvement and audit excellence.
Experience gained within audit quality, technical, professional practice, regulatory or inspection environments would be advantageous.
Why Join Us?
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of audit quality across the firm.
You will:
- Influence quality outcomes across a portfolio of the firm's most significant audit engagements.
- Work directly with Audit Partners and senior leadership.
- Contribute to the strategic direction of the firm's audit quality agenda.
- Gain exposure to complex technical issues, significant professional judgements and evolving regulatory developments.
- Lead and support initiatives that drive continuous improvement across the audit practice.
- Develop a broad and influential perspective across multiple sectors, clients and engagement teams.
- Play a central role in fostering a culture of audit quality, excellence and accountability.
This role offers the opportunity to combine technical expertise, professional judgement and leadership influence while making a meaningful contribution to audit quality across the practice.
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What does this mean for you?
At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied individuals present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.
We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm. We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm’s best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.
Reward and benefits
Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access to the necessary benefits to help promote a healthy lifestyle and thrive.
Recognition
We want to create a culture of recognition and celebrating success, by saying thank you to people who surpass our expectations and recognising the right values and behaviours. Our Shout Out recognition scheme is our way of highlighting and promoting achievements. Whether you simply want to say thank you, celebrate a special occasion or give an award for doing something exceptional, you can do all of this and more through the scheme.


