Assistant Audit Manager
Pwc - United Arab Emirates
Total years of experience :11 years, 7 Months
Experienced assistant manager within the PwC Dubai business unit primarily responsible for managing the entire audit process on multiple audit engagements with oversight responsibilities of up to 5 team members per engagement. Considerable audit experience in industries such as energy, utilities, telecommunications, manufacturing and retail. Supporting Audit Directors and Partners in client relationship management, technical accounting advisory to clients, as well as identification and reporting of audit and internal control findings and recommendations to key stakeholders.
Key achievements
• Consistently delivered high quality simple and complex standalone and consolidated financial statements, compliant with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) requirements, and produced high quality reports to internal and external stakeholders.
• Frequently produced detailed financial analysis of clients’ financial statements to drive discussions with management on improving key financial metrics impacting profitability and liquidity.
• Effectively coached multiple high-performing teams on audit best practices and improving efficiency, by providing on-the-job training which resulted in increased turnaround time on engagements.
• Successfully coordinated the delivery of assurance services as audit manager to a portfolio of 16 clients and successfully generated audit revenue of over $500, 000.
• Actively contributed as a member of the PwC Middle East People Council to enhance the overall people experience of PwC employees throughout the region, by rolling out initiatives to improve worklife balance.
• Consistently demonstrated superb project management skills, by utilising software such as Salesforce, iPower, SAP Concur among others to effectively prepare and monitor budgets on engagements, resulting in delivery of 20% minimum profitability.
• Championed the use of digital data solutions such as Power BI, Alteryx workflows, Halo for journals, Connect and other Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools as a Transformation team member, to facilitate data extraction, visualization and analysis which enhanced risk assessments on audits and reduced man-hours on engagements.
• Consistently provided value adding recommendations to management on process improvements, proper accounting treatments of transactions, and resolution of identified control deficiencies on numerous occasions.
• Faciliated on-the-job training for senior associates and associates on audit teams on areas such as auditing signficant accounts, financial statement reviews, report writing, and soft skills.
Executing audit procedures on risk areas of audits, including assessing the control environment
of audit clients in order to identify various risk types and the design/operating effectiveness of management controls.
Performing substantive audit testing on all financial statement areas of clients, in addition to supporting the team
leader on audit engagements by reviewing work of juniors on lower risk areas. Reviewing multinational clients’
consolidated financial statements to ensure completeness and accuracy of adjustments, and performing other
assigned tasks by team leader.
Leading audit teams in the execution of financial statement audits, and preparation and delivery of key client
reporting deliverables across different industry sectors.
Successfully coordinated audit teams to execute audits and submit various reporting deliverables in a timely
fashion on multiple audits in Ghana, as well as during ten month secondment in PwC Uganda.
Supervised highly functional teams of three to five associates on client engagements, with a total annual client
portfolio of $95, 000, comprising clients from various economic sectors.
Contributed as a team member in key business development projects such as the 2017 Business Effectiveness
and Benchmarking Survey, and 2017 Banking Survey.
Volunteered as a team member of the PwC Corporate Social Responsibility outreach team in 2015 and 2016.
Primarily performing risk assessment and control testing
procedures for various audit clients. Executing audit procedures on relatively lower risk areas of audits, in addition to
supporting the team senior on audit engagements by reviewing work of juniors on low risk areas, and assisting in the
set-up and completion of audit file.
Processing of local and international Outward Telegraphic Transfers (OTTs) and Internet
Banking transactions, across multiple operating platforms in the Bank’s West African Processing Hub.
* Assumed responsibility for drafting of telex/swift messages to relevant financial institutions relating to amendment
of payment messages, recall of funds, and investigations on behalf of the Bank’s customers within the West
Africa region.
* Prepared daily departmental utilization reports as part of MIS function, as well as other assigned administrative
tasks
Qualified as an ACCA affiliate in October 2015 and was admitted into membership in September 2016, having fulfilled the minimum three year relevant professional requirement.
Graduated with First Class Honours in Bsc Adminstration (Banking & Finance). Courses studied include: - Financial accounting - Financial Management - Investment Fundamentals - Business Communication - Business Law -Organisational Behaviour