Senior Audit & Assurance - Bahrain FY27

About the role

Deloitte is hiring a Senior in Audit & Assurance for its Bahrain office covering FY27. The role sits within the firm's Audit & Assurance practice and involves delivering high-quality audit services, managing audit quality and working with onshore and offshore centers of excellence.

Key responsibilities

• Build trust with stakeholders by understanding their service level expectations.
• Deliver high-quality services with awareness of regulation and risk management impacts on business processes and controls.
• Understand key statistics and industry matters about the entity before the engagement begins.
• Adapt template referral instructions to define the scope of procedures and the audit focus, and liaise with onshore and offshore centers of excellence.
• Track deliverables from component auditors and link risks, controls, procedures and findings across the audit file.
• Articulate audit quality milestones and the audit plan timings, and challenge whether work can be done earlier in the cycle.
• Prepare documentation anticipating reviewer questions, distinguishing accounting and auditing judgments, and build relationships beyond the finance function.
• Be aware of engagement lifecycle risks, the regulatory environment and practice protection policies.
• Supervise staff, inspect client financial records, compile and analyze data, prepare detailed audit reports and resolve accounting research issues.
• Plan and manage engagements and people so deliverables meet work plan specifications and deadlines.

Required profile

• Degree in Accounting or a related field; graduate degree desired.
• 4+ years of experience in public auditing and accounting, preferably with big audit firms.
• Ability to supervise staff, manage engagements and ensure deliverables meet deadlines.
• Fluent English (reading, speaking and writing); bilingual Arabic/English candidates preferred.
• International accounting qualification desired: CA, ACCA or CPA, preferably CA.