Assurance - External Audit Manager (Banking) - Riyadh, KSA
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About the Role
PwC Middle East is seeking an External Audit Manager specializing in Banking for their Riyadh office. The role involves managing audit engagements, client relationships, and team development.
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Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of iconic clients, handling day to day client liaison and technical issues
- Lead business development activities to identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
- Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges and contribute to team technical acumen
- Manage and deliver large projects, ensuring key deadlines are met
- Design audit strategy and manage audit execution in alignment with engagement leader guidance
- Advise clients on financial reporting and regulatory developments
- Manage client relations with senior management, including presentations to board of directors and audit committees
- Ensure compliance with risk, quality and independence matters
- Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
- Coach, mentor and develop team members
- Encourage involvement in digital initiatives and use of audit transformation technologies
- Participate in recruitment process for interviewing and selecting candidates
Requirements
- Degree in accounting, finance or other related academic major
- Minimum of 6 8 years of professional experience in external financial audit in one of the Big 4
- Completed professional qualifications such as ACCA, CA, ACA, CPA
- Recent experience in auditing Banking clients
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Bilingual proficiency in Arabic and English is a plus
- Knowledge of Audit technologies and Data Analytics tools is a plus
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Line of Service Overview
- Our Middle East Assurance practice includes over 2,300 people based in 12 countries across the region and is part of PwC’s global network. PwC Middle East’s Assurance practice combines human led and tech powered solutions to provide quality audits and risk services.
How You’ll Contribute
- Assisting proactively in the management of a portfolio of client, where you will be responsible for the day to day management client liaison and technical issues management.
- Being responsible for business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients along with building and maintaining strong relationships with clients.
- Developing strategies to solve complex technical challenges and contribute to the development of your own and your team’s technical acumen.
- Assisting in the management and delivering of large projects, ensuring that key deadlines are met.
- Acting in charge of designing the audit strategy and managing the audit execution in alignment with the engagement leader guidance. You will advise clients on financial reporting and regulatory developments, as well as staying up to date with the regulatory changes by attending internal and external
- Managing client relations with senior management, including delivering presentations to the board of directors and audit committees.
- Ensuring you are adhering to compliance with the risk, quality and independence matters.
- Keeping up to date with local and national business and economic issues.
- Being responsible for the coaching, mentoring and development of team members reporting to you while caring about their well being.
- Encouraging involvement in digital initiatives and the use of audit transformation technologies, as well as the use of alternative delivery models, in order to ensure compliance with our firm's vision and ensure a more robust audit.
- Taking part of the recruitment process for interviewing and selecting the most competent candidates as per PwC hiring standards.
What You’ll Bring
- A degree in accounting, finance or other related academic major.
- Minimum of 6 8 years of professional experience in external financial audit in one of the big 4.
- Completed a recognised professional qualifications such as ACCA, CA, ACA, CPA.
- Recent experience in auditing Banking clients is a must.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills that allow you to thrive in a team environment.
- Bilingual proficiency in Arabic and English (oral and written) is a plus.
- Applying the international standards on Auditing (ISAs) on the external audit of financial services with profound IFRS knowledge relevant to the FS practice (such as IFRS9, IFRS17) and financial services regulations.
- Strong project management skills and experience managing an audit from planning to completion.
- Confidence in challenging yourself and others to complete high quality testing and documentation.
- Ability to establish and nurture positive relationships across all levels both internally and externally.
- Driving innovative thinking and supports others through change and uncertainty to overcome hurdles.
- Experience encouraging a team environment that promotes collaboration and constructive challenge and has demonstrated the ability to act quickly to resolve team issues and questions.
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