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Role Overview
Senior Audit position at KPMG in Oman. Hierarchical level A3 within the Audit department.
Role Purpose
Lead audit engagements for medium and small clients, acting as in-charge and responsible for all phases of the audit from planning through finalization. For large clients, serve as semi-senior supporting the engagement lead. Mentor junior team members and ensure quality execution of audit procedures.
Key Responsibilities
Planning & Strategy
- Lead involvement in planning and strategy of the audit.
- Participate in pre-engagement planning with team members and client staff to discuss client needs, expectations, team roles, budgets and engagement requirements.
- Understand the client's business, products, performance and accounting policies.
- Develop industry knowledge to complement functional skills.
Financial Statement Audit
- Conduct analytical review of full financial statements.
- Perform analytical review of financial statements prior to finalization.
- Lead audit of key financial statement captions including accounts payable, accounts receivable (excluding evaluation of provision for doubtful debts), fixed assets (excluding assessment of capital work in progress and fixed policies when complex and risky), inventory (including evaluation of obsolescence provision), and investments (excluding complex financial instruments).
- Audit the client's statutory records, internal controls and consolidated accounts.
- Perform consolidations focused on specific high-risk areas.
- Attend stock counts and follow up on the results.
Compliance & Testing
- Perform compliance testing, including system work through.
Engagement Management & Administration
- Oversee overall responsibility for the audit as in-charge for medium and small clients.
- Monitor budgets of the engagements.
- Coach, review and delegate work performed by team members.
- Ensure that engagement reviews are completed within the given time.
- Ensure that all review notes are cleared.
- Clear review notes raised by the job in-charge and managers prior to management review.
- Conduct thorough check on working papers prior to management review.
- Follow through to finalization of all audit work.
- Perform effective wrap-up of engagement, assisting manager and partner after leaving the field, clearing all review notes, assisting with report issuance and concurring review process, placing files to disks and network, complying with document retention policy, and binding and filing work papers in the office.
- Maintain audit administration.
- Prepare and update system documentation.
- Prepare and complete general file documents.
- Update system documentation.
Client Relations
- Manage client relations and interaction with client staff.
Team Leadership & Development
- Mentor Assistant, Associate, trainees and assist them with office orientation.
Compliance & Conduct
- Adhere to the KPMG code of conduct and all KPMG risk management policies and procedures.
Reporting
- Deliver reporting including annual financial statements, management letters, and key features memoranda.
Qualifications & Experience
Education
- Bachelor in Commerce or completed A levels or equivalent.
- ACCA: minimum of 9 papers completed (F1-F9).
- CPA: minimum of 2 papers completed.
- ICAEW: Professional Stage completed.
Experience
- 2 to 3 years and above post-graduate experience.
- Knowledge in accounting concepts.
- Computer literacy.
Skills & Competencies
Technical Skills
- Strong analytical skills.
- Excellent analytical skills with ability to identify ways to analyze information quickly and efficiently.
Interpersonal & Personal Attributes
- Customer focus.
- Mentors new team members.
- Proactive and independent person with ability to initiate tasks independently.
- Researching skills: identifies, documents and shares knowledge that might be useful to others.
- Proficient problem solver: suggests innovative and creative solutions to problems.
- Effective communicator.
Language Skills
- English: fluent in speaking, reading, writing and listening.
- Arabic: fluent in speaking, reading, writing and listening.
- Good communication skills in English (reading, writing and speaking).
- Arabic would be an advantage.
Additional Information
- Duties and responsibilities associated with this role may change from time to time.
- Individual situations and specific role or job description may vary from the information contained in this job description.
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