Audit Manager

About the role

Tsang & Partners has grown its listed and regulated portfolio faster than its manager bench. We now audit two GEM issuers, eleven SFC-licensed corporations and a fund administrator, and the partners are doing manager work on three of them. That is the honest reason this role is open.

You would take a portfolio of roughly thirty engagements, four seniors and their teams, and full responsibility for planning, risk assessment and the quality of what reaches the partner. Our engagement quality reviews are internal and blunt. You will get better here.

We also expect commercial judgement. Managers scope fees, negotiate them with clients and explain overruns without flinching. Karman Lai will show you how for the first six months, and then it is yours.

What you'll do

• Plan and manage a portfolio of audit engagements for listed, SFC-licensed and privately held Hong Kong clients.
• Set risk assessment and materiality, and challenge the team's approach before fieldwork rather than after it.
• Review working papers, financial statements and consolidation packages to partner-ready standard.
• Present findings, control weaknesses and significant judgements to audit committees and boards.
• Manage engagement economics: budgets, recovery, billing and the awkward conversation about scope.
• Develop four seniors through structured feedback and take a real view on who is ready for promotion.
• Keep the firm current on HKFRS amendments and HKICPA practice notes affecting our client base.

What we're looking for

• HKICPA member with at least seven years in external audit, including two at assistant manager grade or above.
• Demonstrable experience auditing listed companies or SFC-licensed corporations in Hong Kong.
• Strong technical grounding in HKFRS and HKSA, including group audits and component auditor instructions.
• Cantonese and English at business level, plus Mandarin for PRC subsidiary work.
• Comfortable presenting to an audit committee without a partner in the room.

Nice to have

• Experience with regulatory inspections of audit files.
• IPO reporting accountant work.
• A considered view on how audit documentation should change with data analytics.

What you get

• 13th month plus a discretionary bonus reviewed against portfolio profitability
• Five-day week and a firm-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year
• Medical, dental and outpatient cover for spouse and children
• HKICPA fees, CPD and one technical conference a year
• Partner track with a written promotion framework, not a hallway conversation