Audit Manager - Assurance Services

Responsibilities:

1. Builds trust and credibility by focusing on how to meet multiple stakeholder needs whilst providing constructive challenge on engagement issues.
2. Recognizes opportunities to add value, extend knowledge, increase impact and to provide exceptional stakeholder value through drawing expertise from across the firm and integrating specialists where appropriate as part of the core audit engagement team.
3. Reviews documentation of flows of transactions and tests of relevant controls early in the audit cycle to allow for timely assessment of the planned audit approach and the entity's control environment.
4. Runs file checks regularly throughout the audit, ensuring all points have been cleared at the end of each audit and chooses an appropriate file structure for each engagement, including group engagements.
5. Engages early with scheduling and the extended engagement team, building relationships with clients and team members.
6. Clearly communicates expectations regarding responsibilities and deadlines to all members of the engagement team.
7. Identifies, researches, and helps to resolve complex audit issues.
8. Ensures compliance with auditing and accounting standards, relevant laws and regulations (including specific local laws and regulations), ethical standards, independence requirements, and the audit firm's quality control procedures.
9. Performs reviews with professional skepticism considering whether the results of testing sufficiently assess, test, and objectively challenge the appropriateness and reliability of the assumptions and data used to support management's assertions.
10. Budgets and monitors the financial performance of engagements, focusing on optimizing profitability.
11. Keeps up to date with service offerings and identifies opportunities that will help business growth across the firm.

Experience & Education:

1. Minimum 7+ years of experience in public accounting, auditing, audit management, budget, business plan, business strategy, preferably with big Audit Firms.
2. Extensive knowledge of best practice reporting and International financial reporting standards.
3. Able to ensure that the applicable accounting and auditing standards have been consistently applied and obtains appropriate evidence to support the assessment that the financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the applicable financial reporting framework.
4. Ability to thoroughly review audit documentation for completeness, accuracy, and adequacy while ensuring timely archiving of work papers.
5. International accounting qualification is required: CA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent is a must.
6. Fluent in English (reading, speaking, and writing).