Audit Partner / Director

Role Overview

Join Grant Thornton New Zealand's Wellington office as an Audit Partner or Director during an exciting phase of growth. This role combines the strengths of a large firm with the agility of a smaller one, delivering personalised, high-quality audit services to an esteemed portfolio of New Zealand and international clients.

Responsibilities

• Manage and uphold a portfolio of existing clients, ensuring delivery of audit services at consistently high standards and maintaining client satisfaction.
• Drive growth within your client portfolio and contribute to the firm's broader business development efforts.
• Maintain and expand your technical audit expertise, providing expert advice, technical training, and coaching to colleagues.
• Lead and guide your audit team to effectively execute strategic initiatives, support their career development, and implement solutions to enhance performance.
• Participate in budgeting and workflow planning, monitoring divisional productivity alongside the Audit Service Line Leader and reporting monthly progress.
• Mitigate business risks by ensuring compliance with professional and ethical standards and delivering quality work.

About You

The ideal candidate holds a Chartered Accountant qualification or an equivalent international credential. Whether you are currently a partner at another firm, re-entering audit, or an experienced audit director aspiring to advance, you bring a proven commitment to excellence and a strong business development orientation. You enjoy client engagement and team leadership within a culture that values people, integrity, and collaboration.

Additional Information

This position is full-time and based onsite in Wellington, New Zealand. It offers a unique culture characterised by values such as "choose abundance", "earn trust", "have the honest talk", "everybody in for everybody", "be unstoppable", and "leave things better".