Assurance - ACE - Associate - Al Ain, UAE

PwC - United Arab Emirates; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in Abu Dhabi is seeking an Associate for their Assurance team. This role involves supporting office administration and collaborating on projects across the Middle East. Ideal candidates are ambitious recent graduates with a degree in Accounting or Finance and strong communication skills. Bilingual proficiency in Arabic and English is a plus. The firm offers excellent development opportunities and a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Fresh graduates or 1-2 years of experience welcome.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Perform office administration tasks supporting the Regional Audit team.
• Collaborate with colleagues across different countries in the region.
• Engage in wider practice communication responsibilities.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Organizational skills

Project management

IT skills (MS Office)

Bilingual proficiency (Arabic and English)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or relevant field

Job description

Description

Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 12,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Our regional team operates across the Middle East bringing international experience delivered within the context of the region and its culture. We can bring the collective knowledge and experience of more than 370,000 people across the entire global PwC network in advisory, assurance and tax to help you find the value you are looking for.

Job Description & Summary

PwC Global Overview

With offices in 152 countries and almost 328,000 people, we are among the leading professional services networks in the world. We help organisations and individuals create the value they are looking for, by delivering quality in Assurance, Tax and Advisory services.

PwC Middle East Overview

Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 8,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Our regional team with its tailored solutions, brings international experience, helping our clients meet the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the Middle East market, and beyond.

Line of Service Overview

Our Middle East Assurance practice includes over 2,300 people based in 12 countries across the region and is part of PwC’s global network that is operating worldwide. PwC Middle East’s Assurance practice combines the right mix of human‑led and tech‑powered solutions to provide our clients with quality audits and other risk services that create confidence and impact in our region and across society.

Business Unit Overview

Middle East Assurance Center of Excellence is the PwC ME’s assurance alternative delivery setup Since launching in 2013, the delivery center has been providing a broad range of services to the Assurance business enabling growth and value creation by driving new ways of working to deliver quality and operational efficiency.

Our center of excellence was established to help the business meet unique resource and service delivery needs, become more competitive in the market and to enhance our value proposition - to our clients and our people.

Our rapidly evolving delivery center network across the Middle East (Jordan,Saudi Arabia,Lebanon and Egypt) incubates expertise to help unlock new opportunities through collaboration, automation, competency building and skill enhancement.

What is expected from you?

As an Associate within the ACE Support team, you will be performing office administration tasks supporting our Regional Audit team. Your tasks will also be reflected by our values and PwC professional framework which includes:

• Developing yourself personally, taking a keen interest in the services and learning the skills needed to execute them to a high level of quality in an efficient way.
• The role also requires that the candidate is able to collaborate with colleagues across different countries in the region on the standardised services to ensure they are being conducted in accordance with the user guide.
• Working with colleagues in all Middle Eastern offices on client work and internal initiatives.
• As an associate in the ACE team, the role includes wider practice communication responsibilities which relate to the execution of the individual work request.
• The role sits within a rapidly growing part of PwC’s Assurance Centre of Excellence. You will be an integral part of the team responsible for the delivery of our services to the Middle Eastern Assurance practice. You will have access to all of the latest training and development tools and the support of the wider PwC network.

What you’ll bring to this role:

You are ambitious and get use of opportunities to grow and develop. In addition, you recognise yourself in the following characteristics:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or any relevant field.
• Fresh graduates or has 1-2 years of experience.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills that allow you to thrive in a team environment
• Bilingual proficiency in Arabic and English (oral and written) is a plus.
• Excellent IT skills in MS Office tools.
• Working under pressure and meeting multiple deadlines a day while maintaining a positive attitude and customer service mindset.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills, having the ability to prioritise workload whilst being resilient and being able to cope well under pressure and meeting tight deadlines.
• Ability to collaborate with colleagues across different countries in the region on translation projects to ensure they meet the client’s expectations.
• Willingness to challenge the ‘norms’ and to create a cohesive and effective working team.
• Commitment to valuing differences and working alongside diverse people and perspectives.

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards, Accounting Policies, Active Listening, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform, Auditing, Auditing Methodologies, Client Management, Communication, Compliance Auditing, Complying With Regulations, Data Analysis and Interpretation, Data Ingestion, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Data Security, Data Transformation, Data Visualization, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, External Audit, Financial Accounting, Financial Audit, Financial Disclosure Report

Travel Requirements

0%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

Yes

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