Manager

Manage and lead the end-to-end delivery of external audit and internal audit engagements, ensuring high audit quality, strong client relationships, effective risk coverage, and timely issuance of reports in line with professional standards and firm methodology.

Key responsibilities:

• Own engagement delivery from planning through reporting for external and internal audit assignments, including scoping, risk assessment, materiality, audit strategy, and resource planning.
• Lead and review complex areas (financial reporting, significant judgments, estimates, revenue, impairment, consolidation, related parties, and key controls), ensuring appropriate evidence and sound conclusions.
• Provide technical guidance on applicable standards and frameworks (e.g., ISA/ISQM, IFRS, IIA Standards, COSO), and ensure compliance with independence, ethics, and quality management requirements.
• Manage teams across multiple engagements: set expectations, allocate work, coach and develop staff, review working papers, and perform final quality reviews before partner/director sign-off.
• Proactively manage client relationships: coordinate with management and those charged with governance, handle issues escalation, and lead status/closing meetings.
• Identify and articulate control deficiencies, financial reporting issues, and improvement opportunities; ensure observations are root-cause based and recommendations are practical and risk-aligned.
• Oversee engagement economics: budgets, billing inputs, change orders, timelines, and deliverables tracking; manage scope creep and ensure efficient execution.
• Drive continuous improvement: refine templates and methodologies, support internal trainings, and contribute to knowledge sharing and business development (proposals, scoping, credential decks) as needed.

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; professional qualification (CA/ACCA/CPA) required; CIA or equivalent a plus.
• 7–10+ years of assurance experience (external audit and/or internal audit), with proven engagement management and client leadership.

Key competencies:

• Strong technical accounting/audit capability and risk-based assurance mindset.
• Excellent leadership, coaching, and review skills; ability to manage multiple priorities under deadlines.
• High-quality written reporting, executive communication, and stakeholder management.
• Commercial acumen, planning discipline, and strong professional judgment.