Key Responsibilities:
- Provide support in technical and compliance matters relating to financial statements audit, within a mid-tier audit firm.
- Review and monitor Financial Statements Audit and Assurance Engagements to ensure that they comply with all applicable Pronouncements, including International Standards on Auditing (ISA), International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the International Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (IESBA), and corporate regulations.
- Review firm-wide policies, processes, and procedures to ensure that they comply with the International Standards of Quality Management (ISQM), and other authoritative pronouncements.
Candidates for this role will be supporting the firm in achieving the following outcomes:
- Establishing policies and procedures within the Firm to ensure compliance with the above Pronouncements.
- Implementing and monitoring the Firm's program to compliance with ISQM.
- Planning and conducting risk assessments and quality control reviews on engagements, to ensure compliance with the above Pronouncements.
- Validating that controls established by the Firm to comply with the Pronouncements are operating effectively and timely.
- Analyzing and identifying gaps, and potential areas of improvement, in quality control procedures within the Firm to ensure compliance with the above Pronouncements, and proposing remediation plans.
- Conducting real-time reviews of financial statements audit and assurance engagements before audit opinions are signed.
- Carrying out root cause analyses and monitoring effectiveness of action plans to address areas of weaknesses identified.
- Training, coaching, developing and cultivating technical competencies to ensure capability of designated employees to maintain and comply with the Pronouncements.
- Preparing and collating information/reports for regulatory and internal reviews and handle any related coordination work.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in accountancy or other relevant disciplines.
- Good knowledge of relevant professional pronouncements including IFRS, ISA, ISQM and IESBA.
- Minimum 8 years experience in an audit and/or quality role, within a Public Accounting firm.
- Candidates with experience in similar quality management roles are preferred.
- Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills to communicate across all levels of staff and management.
