Audit Senior Associate

The Audit Senior Associate should have prior experience in financial statements audit and have proven experience in service delivery. Prior team management skills and an ability to handle stakeholder relationships are essential.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Audit service delivery - execute a high-quality audit and ensure timely and quality audit deliverables on the work done by self and the team.
• Content & industry focus - Demonstrate and build strong domain expertise (accounting & auditing) and industry knowledge to enable better engagement with ET and improve quality of work performed from GDC by self and team.
• Coordinate the day-to-day activities of audits and client interactions and ensure efficient information flow from the client to the audit team.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge and stay current on developments in accounting literature, including those specific to assigned industries.
• Supervise GDC audit associates on engagements, including audit documentation review, coaching, and providing timely feedback.
• Review engagement audit documentation prepared by U.S. Audit Associates and Interns, including providing review notes and timely feedback on the work.
• For identified and approved engagement work requests, perform reviews for work prepared by GDC teams.
• Raise any issues identified on a timely basis to the U.S. engagement team, as well as seek possible resolution from them.
• Understand and action feedback to team for self and team development, including feedback on how to improve audit documentation.
• Identify more areas of work on U.S. audits that can be offshored and transition those to GDC.
• Identify and communicate opportunities for audit efficiencies and process improvement to the U.S. engagement team.
• Demonstrate professionalism, industry competence, and clarity of communication when dealing with the ET.
• Develop self by participating in and developing others by facilitating audit conceptual trainings and ensuring that team members are trained.
• Participate in the firm's strategic initiatives and/or corporate social responsibility programs.
• Support the design and execution of an engagement's audit approach and procedures in accordance with relevant regulatory professional auditing and assurance standards and applicable U.S. firm guidance and KPMG methodology.
• Complete Goal Setting, Interim Reviews, and Year-End Reviews of team members (including self) and provide feedback on a timely basis. Encourage and reward people for pursuing new ideas and solutions, and drive employee engagement/GPS for the cluster effectively.

Mandatory Technical Skills:

• Audit and accounting knowledge, including applied working knowledge of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Good knowledge of MS Office (with an emphasis on MS Excel skills)
• Strong English communication abilities (oral & written)
• Analytical skills