Use this step by step explanation to craft a good employee performance feedback review for an external audit manager. Find the right words with quality phrases.

An External Audit Manager is hired from outside the company and made in charge of approving an organization's financial information. Under this position, both junior and senior accountants work together to complete the tasks assigned. These auditors include those who belong to the company and have worked on the records that are provided to this new auditor. External auditing firms are established to ensure that every company meets the expected standards of accounting.

Other tasks for this position includes identifying risks and managing them, Producing reports, highlighting issues and providing a potential solution, engaging with senior staff to gain a good understanding of the business, ensuring compliance with internal and external requirements.

Employee Performance Review Sample

Employee's Name: Title:
Review Period: __/__/__ to __/__/__ Employee SSN:
Work Location: Supervisor's Name:

Instructions

  1. Rating: Rate the employee against the core skills based on how well he/she demonstrates each skill. Give scores 1, 2, or 3 for each rating depending on the employee's performance.
  2. Comments: Use this area to give examples of employee's performance phrases. The phrases should describe how well an employee has performed on previously set goals based on the given core skill.
  3. Summary: Use this section to give a summary of the employee's strengths and areas for improvement or development. Recommend a step increase for an employee who has met the expectations and performance improvement plans for one who doesn't meet expectations.
  4. Human Resources Review: Human resources manager must examine and indicate whether he/she concurs with the evaluation and comments. If the manager agrees, then he/she must sign the evaluation form. If he/she doesn't concur, then he/she must provide reasons explaining why this is so.
  5. Signatures: Sign the evaluation form and give it to the employee to go through and answer the Self Evaluation Questions. Ask him/her to sign and date the evaluation form before giving it back to the human resources for filing.

Rating Meaning

The employee fails to perform the most important aspects of the job satisfactorily. Requires close guidance to carry out routine jobs. He/she needs significant improvement in all areas. Meetings should be held between the employee and the supervisor to discuss performance deficiencies.

1

Employee routinely meets and exceeds expectations in all areas of responsibility. Produces high-quality work that at times exceeds expectations. Consistently meets the most critical annual goals. Occasionally produces timely and accurate results.

2

The employee consistently and significantly exceeds the communicated expectations by producing exceptionally high-quality work. He/she demonstrates exceptional knowledge of his/her duties and is highly recognized by others as an authority in his/her area of work.

3

Supervisor's Feedback

Skill

Comments

Rating

TEAMWORK SKILLS: Teamwork is the process of collaboratively working with a group of people with an aim to achieve a set goal within a business ensuring that the staff and management cooperate using their skills and provide constructive feedback.

Communicates opinions and ideas in a clear and concise way to the other team members.

Encourages other team members to continue to improve themselves and to do well at all time.

2

ACCURACY: Accuracy refers to the closeness of a measured value to a known value or standard that is passed by the governing laws.

Does proper research to get accurate facts and figures before undertaking any task.

Tries to emphasize accuracy to those he or she works with and sets a goal standard for accuracy levels.

2

KNOWLEDGE OF JOB: Knowledge of Job is essential to every employee who needs to have a clear understanding of how their jobs fit into the overall organization to eliminate carelessness and laxity.

Asks one's supervisor what the expectations of a certain project are and works towards meeting those expectations

Remains positive even when something does not turn out as expected and keeps trying until one gets it right

2

MANAGEMENT SKILLS: Management Skills are also known as leadership skills and involve planning, decision making, delegation, time management and time management to ensure optimum organization in focus and the technical of how and why of accomplishing tasks.

Great at training employees and directs them to use their strength to better their performance

Plays three vital roles in managing others ? counselor, friend and boss while managing all the three efficiently

3

APPRAISAL AND EVALUATION SKILLS: Appraisal and Evaluation Skills are services that allow employers to assess their employees? contributions to the organization for the period they have been working with them.

Pays careful attention to important details when assessing and appraising an employee or staff

Takes actions that lead to marked improvements in the fulfillment of the employees

2

APPEARANCE AND GROOMING: Appearance and Grooming are the way one presents themselves in a professional environment or the workplace with the aim of gaining positive impression and respect as well.

Presents a warm, unique look that attracts customers, coworkers, and staff

Does not use grooming that conflicts with the company policy

2

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: Personal Relationships is the relationship between individuals who have or have had a continuing relationship of any nature either professional or informal.

Demonstrates to colleagues that one is listening carefully by paraphrasing what they have said and asking follow-up questions

Does own job well and makes a point of finishing own work on time in order to gain respect from other employees

3

PROBLEM/SITUATION ANALYSIS: Problem/Situation Analysis is the ability to solve problems and assess situations to know what kind of solution is required to calm it down.

Tries to break the problem down into smaller, manageable parts in order to decrease anxiety and think more clearly

Prepares for the worst possible outcome and how to deal with it; tries something else when a solution one has implemented doesn't work

2

ROLE AWARENESS: Role Awareness is the ability to be informed of your role in a given environment as well as understand the expectations placed on a position and to see how they are met apparently.

Arrives early enough in order to take care of some of the little things, like settling in, before starting time

Marks positive changes in own performance in order to implement them further and identifies areas that need improvement

2

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: Knowledge Management is the ability to manage knowledge and information that is presented to the company from different sources without overlooking any of them.

Shows willingness to check for current knowledge before use and works with others to be updated about new knowledge

Checks the knowledge and experience of colleagues before starting a new task

2

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

TEAMWORK SKILLS:

Do you always take credit for what others have done or you appreciate their efforts?

Do you always have a tendency of blaming others for the mistakes made?

[employee comments]
ACCURACY:

How well do you take in instructions and follow them to the letter?

Do you give other people your work to proofread again before presenting it?

[employee comments]
KNOWLEDGE OF JOB:

In your opinion, do you think knowledge of your area of responsibility had benefited your company in any way? If yes, how?

What is the most difficult and challenging thing about your job? How do you handle it?

[employee comments]
MANAGEMENT SKILLS:

What role have you played in your team and their success?

What are the most important values you demonstrate as a leader?

[employee comments]
APPRAISAL AND EVALUATION SKILLS:

Do you encourage and motivate or do you discourage others?

Do you treat the employees the same even the weak ones?

[employee comments]
APPEARANCE AND GROOMING:

What are your personal motives behind your dressing and grooming?

Do your dressing and attitude create a professional atmosphere that attracts people?

[employee comments]
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

In your opinion, what are the key ingredients in building and maintaining a successful business relationship? How have these worked for you?

What have you done to improve the relationship between you and your bosses? How has this relationship benefited your career?

[employee comments]
PROBLEM/SITUATION ANALYSIS:

Can you explain the steps you have taken to troubleshoot a problem? How effective have these steps been?

Describe the most difficult situation/problem you have ever solved. What steps did you take to diagnose it and what was the outcome?

[employee comments]
ROLE AWARENESS:

Describe a time when you have had to adapt to a difficult situation. What made the situation difficult and how did you manage it?

Explain how your department has benefited from employees being more aware of their roles. How has this benefited the company at large?

[employee comments]
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT:

What are you doing to improve your understanding on when to seek for new knowledge?

How often do you encourage others to participate in networking opportunities that can assist in gaining more knowledge?

[employee comments]

Summary

Sections 1-4: To be completed by the supervisor

Section 5: To be completed by the employee

1. Exceeds Job Related Expectations

2. Areas to improve

3. Goals completed since last performance feedback

4. Goals for next period

5. Employee comments

Signatures

I acknowledge that I discussed this performance feedback with my supervisor. My signature does not mean that I agree or disagree with this appraisal.
Employee: Date:
Supervisor: Date:
Human Resources: Date:
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