Director, Audit & Assurance

Responsibilities

• Develop an understanding of our client’s businesses
• Interact with our clients, actively establish, maintain and strengthen professional relationships with them
• Ensure client acceptance procedures and engagement letters are completed and approved before commencement of the engagement; clients are billed as scheduled and receivables are collected promptly
• Manage assigned portfolio of clients; define the engagement strategies for each engagement in consultation with the Director/Partner, and execute them in compliance with Baker Tilly’s policies and protocols, Baker Tilly’s Audit Manual, and Quality and Risk Management Guidelines and ensure and monitor that assigned work is completed on time with high audit quality
• Execute complex audit and assurance engagements and/or procedures in compliance to applicable and approved financial reporting and auditing standards in close collaboration with the senior members of the audit team
• Recognize potential audit issues or unusual relationships through high-level analysis of the financial statements and to communicate all findings and deficiencies to relevant more senior members of the audit team
• Monitor the engagement team’s progress against the plan and alter it when needed; perform timely reviews; anticipate and identify risk and escalate issues as appropriate to the relevant more senior members of the audit team and to present the findings to our clients and their stakeholders
• Assist other audit teams as peer reviewer
• Create a positive learning culture, open to coaching/mentoring programs, endeavor to support and train the junior members of the audit team, and support initiatives for professional and personal development of one’s self and also others
• Attend internal and external workshops, trainings, seminars, for a for technical, regulatory, business and other relevant updates
• Manage all stakeholders’ concerns and expectations – client, firm management, audit team, Group Auditors, regulators etc.
• Involve in prospective client pursuits – preparation of service proposal, marketing and networking activities
• Active involvement in management team’s activities and initiatives
• Involve in talent recruitment and retention activities – campus visits, candidate interviews, panel interviews for promotion, people development and engagement etc.
• Comply to Baker Tilly’s policies and adapt to the audit team’s culture and traditions

Requirements

• With bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field; with professional qualification i.e. ICAEW, ACCA, CPA Australia or pass at least fundamental levels of professional qualification is an advantage; and
• Minimum of 4 to 6 years of work experience in any audit firm; an experience with any of the Big4 firms is an advantage
• With advance writing and verbal communication skills in English; proficiency in Mandarin is an advantage
• Experience in auditing banking and financial institutions, and other specialized industries is an advantage
• With high analytical and problem-solving skills; strong drive to excel professionally, and to guide and motivate others; dedicated, innovative, resourceful, and able to work under pressure with minimum supervision;
• With good sense of leadership that fosters an efficient, innovative and team-oriented work environment
• Highly critical and with great attention to details, and exercises professional judgment

Interested candidates please send your updated resume to via the form below. 

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