Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 12,000 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 370,000 people across the entire global PwC network in advisory, assurance and tax to help you find the value you are looking for.
A career within Risk Consulting services will provide you with the opportunity to gain an understanding of an organisation’s objectives, regulatory and risk management environment, and the diverse needs of their critical stakeholders.
Our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. Therefore, our Risk Consulting practice focuses on helping organisations review and strengthen every aspect of their business, from people to performance, systems to strategy, and business planning to business resilience.
Our Risk Consulting practice provides a wide range of services and business advice that is not limited to Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk Management, Policies and Procedures, Governance, Internal Control over Financial Reporting, Process Intelligence, Compliance as well as Technology Risk.
What is expected from you?
As a Manager within the Education Sector, you will be in charge of a prestigious client portfolio and for managing the full cycle of your audit assignments. You will be working as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive experience helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Your job duties will include but will not be limited to:
- Leveraging on your skills and experience to become a trusted advisor to your clients on topics of risk & internal controls
- Engaging and dealing with diverse teams from the planning through the completion phase of the audit as well as closely following up on the progress of the requested tasks to ensure meeting the timeline and the firm’s internal KPI’s.
- Working with clients to improve their internal control maturity and to help them in mitigating the risks they face by developing internal audit and risk management strategies to strengthen their existing controls and processes
- Identifying key risks, defining the audit methodology, and process improvement by understanding the client’s objectives, risks, control frameworks, systems and regulatory environments
- Building and maintaining meaningful relationships with clients, and taking part in researching and identifying opportunities on new/existing client
- Developing internal and external relationships and reflecting PwC values on your day to day work when working in diverse teams
- Managing the engagement budget and economics
- Managing teams and the communication with the clients/stakeholders; Helping clients navigate an evolving risk landscape by developing and executing test plans, identifying control effectiveness and improvements and reporting these to clients in an impactful way
- Providing on-ground support for the planning, implementation and administration of the clients’ Internal Audit Plan
- Working on Internal Audit engagements focusing on compliance, financial and operational related audits
- Conducting testing to evaluate the adequacy of the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls
- Drafting the audit findings, the related impact, potential risks, and recommendations
- Innovating & helping further develop our service offerings related to internal audit, risk & controls
- Planning and executing the engagements effectively to ensure completion of the projects within budgeted time and cost
- Assisting our clients in the deployment and development of their internal audit/internal control function
- Studying business functions, gathering information, evaluating output requirements and formats
- Reviewing the work of the associate levels and providing them on-job training, coaching and constructive feedback to help them grow
- Ensuring adhering to compliance, quality and independence matters.
- Commitment to continuous education and digital upskilling
- Performing other procedures as necessary to support issuance of the assurance deliverables
What will you bring?
You are ambitious and you utilise opportunities to grow and develop. In addition, you recognise yourself in the following characteristics:
- A degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk Management, Governance Industrial Engineer, or any related discipline
- Completed a professional qualification, such as CIA, CPA, CRMA, CFE, CGRCP, PMP, or CMA
- Minimum of 7 years of professional and relevant experience in one of the big 4 is preferable.
- Experience working within X industry is considered an asset
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills that allow you to thrive in a team environment
- Bilingual proficiency in Arabic and English (oral and written) is a plus
- Strong project management skills and experience managing assurance projects from planning to completion
- Confidence in challenging yourself and others to complete high quality deliverables
- Ability to establish and nurture positive relationships across all levels - both internally and externally
- Driving innovative thinking and supports others through change and uncertainty to overcome hurdles
- Experience encouraging a team environment that promotes collaboration and constructive challenge and has demonstrated the ability to act quickly to resolve team issues and questions
- Taking pride in your work and in the Audit profession, showing resilience and demonstrating dedication to self-development including being agile and innovative in the digital world
- Promoting and encouraging others to value difference when working in diverse teams
- Ability and willingness to travel frequently within the Middle East and worldwide where the project dictates
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