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Key accountabilities/ roles / responsibilities:
• Lead and manage approx. six portfolio comprising of small and medium sized clients (total fee of around QR 1.5 million)
• Respond to client queries, be alert to both commercial concerns and technical accuracy and refer upwards if necessary
• Perform complex fieldwork on assigned clients, assist with the setting of budgets and pricing, scheduling audits, selecting staff and assigning workloads, developing the audit strategy, all within the Company Audit Methodology, and using technology tools
• Identify issues for reporting in the management letter, and other communications with management, and drafts the final documents for review by director, senior manager and partner
• Lead and manage the audit team in the field
• Supply or attend briefings which are clearly understood on all assignments, and through the setting of clear standards for the team to work in, the DM ensures that the teams fully understand their roles before the assignments commence.
• Ensure completion of audits/projects within the pre-set timescales and budgets, and explaining variances from budget and collects cash on time
• Draft final audit documents for review by director or partner
Person specification
Minimum qualifications:
• Graduate degree in Accounting or related field;
• Fully-qualified (with at least 3 years of Post Qualification Experience) in any of the following international professional qualifications – CA, ACCA, ACA, CPA, CMA, CIA
• Knowledge of IFRS
Experience:
• At least 6 years in public auditing and accounting, preferably with a Big 4 Audit firm;
• Extensive knowledge of best practice reporting and International Financial Reporting Standards;
• Some experience outside the normal audit field, such as agreed-upon, accounting support and other transaction support engagements
• Starting to actively develop an understanding of a range of financial and other areas (other than attestation and accounting advisory) in order to be able to assist clients on due diligence and other transaction support engagements (If this point is not available then there should be available a proof of being trained thereon
Personal Attributes:
• A strong team-player
• Ability to multi-task
• Demonstrated leadership and coaching skills
• A good communicator at all levels
• Maintains and reports against practices that are against KPMG values and standards
• Ability to work under pressure and maintain composure, especially during peak periods.
• Highly analytical, and able to suggest solutions to problems.
Global Skills and Behaviours:
Business focus
- Starts to demonstrate a desire to become involved in selling activities and to acquire selling skills and starts taking part in bids and presentations
- Starting to seek to provide innovative answers to client queries being alert to both commercial concerns and technical accuracy
Developing people
- Developing junior members of field team through clear and direct through on the job coaching & feedback e.g. on KAM, and counseling & career guidance
- Is involved with formal training and development of others (assigned counselees to complete CPFs and PEFs)
- Evaluates performance of juniors and takes appropriate action
Building relationships
- Maintaining good relationships with others,
- Looking for ways to work productively with others.
- Showing consideration for others and acknowledging their view
Delivering quality service
- Producing organized and systematic plans to manage the service delivery
- Planning tasks effectively, for self and team, by assisting in the development of realistic client service plans, breaking them down into manageable tasks, setting milestones, identifying resources.
- Monitoring progress of projects against budget and deadlines
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