Assurance - Audit Methodology - Manager/Senior Manager - Beirut, Lebanon

Description

Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 8,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Our regional team operates across the Middle East bringing international experience delivered within the context of the region and its culture. We can bring the collective knowledge and experience of more than 328,000 people across the entire global PwC network in advisory, assurance and tax to help you find the value you are looking for.

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Audit Methodology practice, within our National Professional Services Group, will provide you with the opportunity to help our Firm by supporting the delivery of quality Assurance services to the market. You’ll collaborate with engagement teams and other Firm resources to promote high quality financial reporting and to inform and influence key stakeholders on important issues pertaining to accounting.

Our team supports our audit engagement teams and external clients with implementing major changes that improve audit quality and efficiency and add value to our client’s audit. As a part of the team, you’ll focus on assisting our audit practice develop innovative practices that foster efficiency, accuracy, reliability, and improved audit quality.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
• Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

The day to day tasks, are as follows:

• Roll out of NGA initiative, in full collaboration with the Transformation team; this includes roll out of the smaller entity library in FY25 which is a project of focus by global and regional leadership: libraries, EGAs, training staff, training ACE, etc....
• Roll out of other projects with transformation; Continuous oversight of these projects being run in transformation for conformity with audit methodology
• Roll out of new/updated ME specific methodology guidance/policies
• expanding work in QMSE, more specifically the work around IT resources
• managing the load around consultations instead of having them concentrated in one/two consultants
• projects around revised ISAs, more specifically this year ISA 600R roll out: libraries, templates, webexes and trainings; contribute to the roll out and respond to questions and concerns from the practice
• AQP training for the whole region is now centralised with the regional team, so we need more experienced team members
• increase the frequency of webexes: mandatory webexes, back to basics webexes for juniors, country specific webexes
• increasing work around Aura and the tools linked to it, especially that we currently have 3 Aura instances in the ME

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.