Senior-Audit- FY’24 (Oman)

Job Description

<strong><u>Job Description</u></strong><p><br></p><strong> Title </strong><p><br></p>Senior<p><br></p><strong> Department </strong><p><br></p>Audit<p><br></p><strong> Hierarchical level </strong><p><br></p>A3<p><br></p><strong> Job Family </strong><p><br></p>Audit<p><br></p><strong><u>Major Duties And Responsibilities</u></strong> <ul><li> Overall responsible for the audit as an in charge for medium and small clients. In case of large clients, act as semi senior. </li><li> Mentoring of Assistant, Associate , trainees &amp; assist them with the office orientation </li><li> Involved in planning and strategy of the audit </li><li> Monitoring budgets of the engagements </li><li> Reporting including annual financial statements, managements letters, key features memoranda, etc. </li><li> Ensuring that all review notes are cleared </li><li> Analytical review of full financial statements </li><li> Consolidations (specific high risk areas) </li><li> Follow through to finalization</li><li> Audit administration </li><li> Client relations – interaction with client staff </li><li> Preparation and updating of system documentation </li><li> Preparation / completion of general file documents </li><li> Analytical Review (AR) of financial statements </li><li> Specifically focused on audit of key financial statement captions e.g.</li><ul><li> Accounts payable (AP) </li><li> Accounts receivable, excluding the evaluation of the provision for doubtful debts </li><li> Fixed assets, excluding the assessment of capital work in progress and fixed policies when these audits are complex and more risky </li><li> Inventory, including the evaluation of the obsolescence provision </li><li> Investments, excluding complex financial instruments </li></ul><li> Coaching, review and delegation of work performed by team members &amp; ensure that the engagement reviews are completed within the given time </li><li> Updating of system documentation </li><li> Clearing review notes raised by the job in charge and mangers. Prior to management review conduct a thorough check on the working papers </li><li> Develop industry knowledge to complement functional skills </li><li> Compliance testing, including system work through </li><li> The audit of the client’s statutory records, internal controls and consolidated accounts </li><li> Attending stock counts and the follow up of the counts </li><li> 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. </li><li> Understand the clients business, products, performance and accounting policies. </li><li> Adhere to the KPMG code of conduct and all KPMG risk management policies and procedures </li><li> 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. </li><li> PROFILE </li></ul><p><br></p><strong><u>Education Requirements</u></strong><p><br></p><ul><li> Bachelor in Commerce or Completed A levels or equivalent </li><li> ACCA – Should have completed a minimum of 9 papers (F1-F9) </li><li> CPA – Complete 2 papers </li><li> ICAEW – Complete Professional Stage </li></ul><p><br></p><strong><u>Work Experience Requirements</u></strong><p><br></p><ul><li> 2yrs – 3yrs and above post graduate experience </li><li> Knowledge in accounting concepts </li><li> Computer Literacy </li></ul><p><br></p><strong><u>Knowledge / Technical Skills</u></strong><p><br></p><strong> 1 </strong><p><br></p>Strong analytical skills.<p><br></p><strong> 2 </strong><p><br></p>Customer Focus<p><br></p><strong> 3 </strong><p><br></p>Mentors new team members<p><br></p><strong><u>Linguistic Skills</u></strong><p><br></p>Good communication skills in English (Reading, writing and speaking)<p><br></p>Arabic would be an advantage<p><br></p><strong><u>Language Skills</u></strong><p><br></p><strong> Language </strong><p><br></p><strong> Speaking </strong><p><br></p><strong> Reading </strong><p><br></p><strong> Writing </strong><p><br></p><strong> Listening </strong><p><br></p>English<p><br></p>Fluent<p><br></p>Fluent<p><br></p>Fluent<p><br></p>Fluent<p><br></p>Arabic<p><br></p>Fluent<p><br></p>Fluent<p><br></p>Fluent<p><br></p>Fluent<p><br></p><strong><u>Interpersonal Skills</u></strong><p><br></p><strong> 1 </strong><p><br></p>Proactive and independent person, with ability to initiate tasks independently<p><br></p><strong> 2 </strong><p><br></p>Researching skills- Identifies, documents and shares knowledge that might be useful to others<p><br></p><strong> 3 </strong><p><br></p>Excellent analytical skills- Identifies ways to analyze information quickly and efficiently<p><br></p><strong> 4 </strong><p><br></p>Proficient problem solver- Suggests innovative and creative solutions to problems<p><br></p><strong> 5 </strong><p><br></p>Effective communicator<p><br></p><strong><u>Additional Remarks</u></strong><p><br></p>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.