Senior Auditor - Telecom Sector

About Us

Join one of the world’s leading professional services firms, renowned for excellence and recognized with multiple awards including Best Employer in the Middle East and outstanding training and development accolades. We are committed to making a meaningful impact daily through innovation, integrity, and collaboration, serving clients while fostering an inclusive and motivating environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish trust and credibility by understanding individual stakeholder expectations and service requirements.
• Deliver high-standard audit services by considering regulatory and risk implications on business processes and controls.
• Gain thorough knowledge of industry statistics and entity-specific matters prior to engagement commencement.
• Customize referral instructions to clearly define audit scope and focus areas.
• Comprehend group audit structure and intended recipients of referral instructions.
• Coordinate effectively with both local and offshore Centers of Excellence, maintaining clarity on delegated tasks and ensuring accurate, complete information transmission.
• Monitor and manage deliverables from component auditors, understanding their significance.
• Integrate audit risks, controls, procedures, and findings cohesively and promptly across documentation files.
• Articulate audit quality milestones, their evidence of completion, and contributions to overall audit quality.
• Critically assess audit plan timing and advocate for earlier execution of tasks where feasible.
• Prepare comprehensive documentation anticipating reviewers’ inquiries, distinguishing accounting from audit judgements.
• Develop relationships beyond finance teams to better grasp business operations and maintain professional skepticism.
• Maintain awareness of risks related to the engagement lifecycle, regulatory frameworks, and applicable protection policies.
• Apply artificial intelligence technology to enhance audit efficiency and quality, including prompt engineering and structured problem-solving techniques.
• Exercise critical evaluation of AI-generated outputs, ensuring validity before incorporation into audit workpapers.
• Comply with responsible AI usage guidelines in professional services, including data confidentiality, governance, and approved tools usage.

Leadership and Development

• Embody and promote organizational purpose and values, seeking impactful opportunities.
• Commit to continuous personal growth while serving as a talent ambassador.
• Demonstrate accountability in achieving performance objectives.
• Enhance communication and relationship-building capabilities.
• Understand contribution of daily activities to team and business goals.
• Supervise audit teams, examine financial records, analyze data, prepare audit reports, and resolve technical accounting challenges.
• Effectively plan and manage engagements and personnel, ensuring timely delivery of quality outputs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related discipline.
• More than 4 years of experience in public audit and accounting, ideally with large international firms.
• Possession of internationally recognized accounting qualifications such as SOCPA, CA, ACCA, or CPA is preferred.
• Fluency in English for reading, writing, and speaking; bilingual proficiency in Arabic and English is an advantage.