Offshore audit support for accounting firms
Your audit team. Extended.
Add South African audit professionals to your engagement teams, from junior associate to manager, working within your methodology and under your direction.
What our team supports
MPVR supplies audit professionals who support your engagements. They work on your files, to your methodology, as members of your team.
- Planning
- Planning documentation and audit programmes prepared for your review.
- Testing
- Substantive and controls testing, with supporting schedules.
- Working papers
- Working papers prepared to agreed standards.
- Review points and files
- Assistance clearing review points and preparing files for your firm’s sign-off.
Engagement-specific scope is confirmed with you before contracting.
Who directs and signs off the work
Your managers direct and review the audit work. Your firm retains responsibility for audit opinions and final sign-off.
MPVR provides the professionals and coordinates staffing, employment support and agreed operational arrangements. Platforms and access arrangements
How work moves through your engagement
Your firm directs, reviews and signs off the work. Our professionals prepare it within your file and respond to your reviewers.
- Your firmYour manager allocates and directs the work.
- MPVR professionalPrepares the work in your file, to your methodology.
- Your firmYour reviewer reviews the work and raises points.
- MPVR professionalResponds to review points and prepares the file.
- Your firmYour firm completes sign-off.
Staffing levels and pricing
Explore experience levels and the brochure’s monthly GBP fees. Select a role to see its qualification profile and relevant experience.
Junior Associate
GBP £2,300
per team member / month
USD pricing available on request
Contact MPVR OffshoreJunior Associate
- Monthly fee
- GBP £2,300 per team member / month
- Qualification
- 3–4 year degree in Accounting and Audit
- South African experience
- 2–3 years practical experience in a small accounting/audit firm
- Relevant UK audit experience
- None specified
- Designation
- BCom Acc
Semi-Senior Associate
- Monthly fee
- GBP £3,700 per team member / month
- Qualification
- 4-year BCom Honours Accounting and Audit
- South African experience
- 3-year training contract at a global mid-tier or large firm
- Relevant UK audit experience
- 1–2 years min (as applicable)
- Designation
- AGA(SA) or CA(SA)
Senior Associate
- Monthly fee
- GBP £4,200 per team member / month
- Qualification
- 4-year BCom Honours Accounting and Audit
- South African experience
- 3-year training contract at a global mid-tier or large firm
- Relevant UK audit experience
- 2–4 years min (as applicable)
- Designation
- AGA(SA) or CA(SA)
Assistant Manager / Supervisor
- Monthly fee
- GBP £4,500 per team member / month
- Qualification
- 4-year BCom Honours Accounting and Audit
- South African experience
- 3-year training contract at a global mid-tier or large firm
- Relevant UK audit experience
- 4–5 years min (as applicable)
- Designation
- AGA(SA) or CA(SA)
Manager
- Monthly fee
- GBP £4,700 per team member / month
- Qualification
- 4-year BCom Honours Accounting and Audit
- South African experience
- 3-year training contract at a global mid-tier or large firm
- Relevant UK audit experience
- 5–6 years min (as applicable)
- Designation
- AGA(SA) or CA(SA)
Monthly fees include salary, benefits, HR, payroll and IT hardware. Fees vary with qualifications and experience. Final scope and commercial terms are confirmed with MPVR. Profiles describe typical requirements for each level, not a guarantee for every candidate.
Ways to engage
Working within your engagement team
Your firm stays in charge of the audit. Our professionals work as members of your team.
- Your managers direct and review
- Work is allocated, directed and reviewed by your audit managers.
- Your methodology and templates
- Files are prepared to the standards agreed with your firm.
- Coordinated onboarding
- Hardware, access and working practices are arranged with your team before work begins.
- Regular performance feedback
- MPVR reviews performance with you and supports your team member throughout.
How we get started
Timing depends on the role, candidate availability and access arrangements.
Discuss requirements
Tell us about your workload, team structure, the experience level you need and how the professional will work with your team.
Meet shortlisted candidates
We put forward one or more screened candidates. You interview them one-to-one and make the final choice.
Coordinate onboarding and access
MPVR supplies hardware and our IT team works with yours to set up secure access. Introductions, working hours and practices are agreed with you.
Review performance together
We run a mid-month performance check and a month-end review, and ask for your feedback monthly during the first three months.
Common questions
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Who directs the work?
Your firm’s audit managers.
Who is responsible for the audit opinion and sign-off?
Your firm. MPVR provides professionals who support your engagements; your firm retains responsibility for audit opinions and final sign-off.
Can we interview candidates?
Yes. Shortlisted candidates can be interviewed before selection.
Who handles HR, IT and payroll?
MPVR coordinates these with your team where required.
What hours apply?
Working arrangements are agreed with your firm.
What affects timing?
Role requirements, candidate availability and access arrangements.
Build the capacity your firm needs.
Tell us about your audit workload and the experience level you need.