Senior-Audit- FY'24

1 day ago


Muscat, Muscat, Oman KPMG Lower Gulf Limited Full time
  • Overall responsible for the audit as an in charge for medium and small clients. In case of large clients, act as semi senior.
  • Mentoring of Assistant, Associate, trainees & assist them with the office orientation
  • Involved in planning and strategy of the audit
  • Monitoring budgets of the engagements
  • Reporting including annual financial statements, managements letters, key features memoranda, etc.
  • Ensuring that all review notes are cleared
  • Analytical review of full financial statements
  • Consolidations (specific high risk areas)
  • Follow through to finalization
  • Audit administration
  • Client relations – interaction with client staff
  • Preparation and updating of system documentation
  • Preparation / completion of general file documents
  • Analytical Review (AR) of financial statements
  • Specifically focused on audit of key financial statement captions e.g.
  • Accounts payable (AP)
  • Accounts receivable, excluding the evaluation of the provision for doubtful debts
  • Fixed assets, excluding the assessment of capital work in progress and fixed policies when these audits are complex and more risky
  • Inventory, including the evaluation of the obsolescence provision
  • Coaching, review and delegation of work performed by team members & ensure that the engagement reviews are completed within the given time
  • Updating of system documentation
  • Clearing review notes raised by the job in charge and mangers.
  • Prior to management review conduct a thorough check on the working papers
  • Develop industry knowledge to complement functional skills
  • Compliance testing, including system work through
  • The audit of the client's statutory records, internal controls and consolidated accounts
  • Attending stock counts and the follow up of the counts
  • Participates in the pre engagement planning, with team members and client staff when needed.
  • Discuss client's need/expectations, team roles, budgets and other things necessary to carry out the engagement.
  • Understand the clients business, products, performance and accounting policies.
  • Adhere to the KPMG code of conduct and all KPMG risk management policies and procedures
  • Perform effective wrap-up of engagement, assisting manager/partner after leaving the field, clearing all review notes, assisting manager with report issuance/concurring review process, placing files to disks/network and complying with document retention policy, binding and filing work papers in the office.

Profile

Education requirements:

  • Bachelor in Commerce or Completed A levels or equivalent
  • ACCA - Should have completed a minimum of 9 papers (F1-F9)
  • CPA – Complete 2 papers
  • ICAEW – Complete Professional Stage

Work experience requirements:

  • 2yrs – 3yrs and above post graduate experience
  • Knowledge in accounting concepts
  • Computer Literacy

Knowledge / Technical Skills

  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Customer Focus
  • Mentors new team members

Linguistic skills

  • Good communication skills in English (Reading, writing and speaking)
  • Arabic would be an advantage

Interpersonal skills

  • Proactive and independent person, with ability to initiate tasks independently
  • Researching skills- Identifies, documents and shares knowledge that might be useful to others
  • Excellent analytical skills- Identifies ways to analyze information quickly and efficiently
  • Proficient problem solver- Suggests innovative and creative solutions to problems

Additional remarks:

Please keep in mind that duties and responsibilities associated with a particular role may change from time to time, and that individual situations and one´s specific role or job description may vary from the information contained in these job descriptions.

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