Senior-Audit- FY'24 (Oman)

Job Description

Major duties and responsibilities

• 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
• Investments, excluding complex financial instruments
• 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
  
  

Language Skills

Language – Speaking – Reading – Writing - Listening

English – Fluent – Fluent – Fluent - Fluent

Arabic – Fluent – Fluent – Fluent - Fluent

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
• Effective communicator
  
  

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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