Audit Manager

Role Overview
We are seeking a motivated Assistant Manager to join our Audit service line. The successful candidate will manage audit engagements from planning through completion, supervise team members, and support the delivery of high-quality work for clients operating primarily within the financial services sector.
The role is suited to an audit professional who understands regulated financial businesses, complex financial products, and technology-enabled operating environments.
Key Responsibilities
Manage audit engagements, including planning, risk assessment, fieldwork, completion, and reporting.
Develop a thorough understanding of clients’ business models, products, systems, governance, internal controls, and regulatory environments.
Identify and assess risks relating to financial instruments, valuation, revenue recognition, impairment, custody, regulatory compliance, and safeguarding of client assets.
Prepare and review audit plans, working papers, financial statements, and client communications.
Evaluate accounting treatments, management estimates, control frameworks, and significant or unusual transactions.
Ensure compliance with applicable accounting and auditing standards, ethical requirements, and firm quality procedures.
Manage engagement timelines, budgets, staffing, and deliverables, escalating significant matters promptly.
Supervise junior team members and provide effective coaching, review, and feedback.
Communicate clearly with client finance teams, management, and other stakeholders.
Coordinate with valuation, tax, technology, and regulatory specialists when required.
Support audit quality initiatives, training, and the use of audit technology and data analytics.
Qualifications and Experience
A recognized professional accounting qualification, such as CA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent.
Relevant external audit experience within a professional services firm.
Audit experience involving banks, investment managers, funds, brokers, payment businesses, fintech companies, or other regulated financial institutions.
Knowledge of financial instruments and relevant financial reporting requirements.
Experience supervising teams and managing multiple engagements.

Work arrangement
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