Manager - Audit & Assurance (Bank Audit)

BDO; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO UAE is seeking a Manager for Audit & Assurance (Bank Audit) based in Dubai. The role focuses on leading bank audit engagements, ensuring compliance with IFRS and local regulations, and maintaining strong client relationships.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years in public accounting with bank audit experience, professional qualifications (CA/ACCA/CPA), and fluent English. You will mentor staff, manage engagement economics and contribute to firm growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6+ years of experience in public accounting and audit management.
• Extensive knowledge of IFRS reporting standards.
• CA/ACCA/CPA or equivalent is required.
• Fluent in English (reading, speaking, and writing).
• Bank audit experience is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Builds trust by meeting stakeholder needs while providing constructive challenges on engagement issues.
• Recognises opportunities to add value by leveraging firm specialists as part of the core audit engagement team.
• Review documentation of flows of transactions and tests of relevant controls early in the audit cycle.
• Run file checks regularly and manage engagement file structure, including group engagements.
• Engage early with scheduling and extended engagement team; build relationships with clients and team members.
• Clearly communicate expectations regarding responsibilities and deadlines to the engagement team.
• Identify, research and resolve complex audit issues.
• Budget and monitor the financial performance of engagements to optimise profitability.
• Keep up to date with service offerings and opportunities for business growth across the firm.

Skills

Auditing

Budgeting

Client relationships

Communication

Education

CA/ACCA/CPA

Job description

Manager - Audit & Assurance (Bank Audit)

Job Title: Manager
Service Line / Team: Audit and Assurance (Bank Audit)
Location: Dubai

We at BDO in UAE are a diverse group of individuals from many cultures, and we share a common ambition: to make a difference and be the spontaneous choice in the industry. We have an excellent Partner–to–staff ratio and an encouraging gender ratio, giving you more flexibility and high priority on mentorship and professional development.

At BDO, we understand that being the leader in exceptional client service begins – and ends – with exceptional regard for our people. Relationships matter in our work and interactions with clients and how we work and interact with each other. What differentiates BDO as an employer is our focus on relationships.

Your opportunity

• Builds trust and credibility by focusing on meeting multiple stakeholder needs whilst providing constructive challenges on engagement issues.
• Recognises opportunities to add value, extend knowledge, increase impact, and provide exceptional stakeholder value by drawing expertise from across the firm and integrating specialists as part of the core audit engagement team.
• Review documentation of flows of transactions and tests of relevant controls early in the audit cycle to allow for timely assessment of the planned audit approach and the entity's control environment.
• Runs file check regularly throughout the audit, checks all points have been cleared at the end of each audit and chooses an appropriate file structure for each engagement, including group engagements.
• Engages early with scheduling and the extended engagement team. Able to build relationships with clients and team members.
• Clearly communicates expectations regarding responsibilities and deadlines to all engagement team members.
• Identifying, researching and helping to resolve complex audit issues.
• Compliance with auditing and accounting standards, relevant laws and regulations (including specific local laws and regulations), ethical standards, independence requirements and the audit firm's quality control procedures.
• Performs reviews with professional skepticism, considering whether the results of testing sufficiently assess, test and objectively challenge the appropriateness and reliability of the assumptions and data used to support management's assertions.
• Budgeting and monitoring the financial performance of engagements, focusing on optimising profitability.
• Keeping up to date with service offerings and identifying the opportunities that will help business growth across the firm.

Experience & Education

• Minimum 6+ years of experience in public accounting, auditing, audit management, budgeting, business planning, business strategy, preferably with big Audit Firms.
• Extensive knowledge of best practice reporting and International financial reporting standards.
• Able to ensure that the applicable accounting and auditing standards have been consistently applied and obtain appropriate evidence to support the assessment that the financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the applicable financial reporting framework.
• Ability to thoroughly review audit documentation for completeness, accuracy and adequacy while ensuring timely archiving of work papers.
• International accounting qualification is required: CA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent is a must.
• Fluent in English (reading, speaking, and writing).
• Bank Audit Experience is mandatory

How to join us

We seek people who are driven and who work towards the best interest of the Team and the Firm – passionate professionals who are keen to develop lasting relationships, both internally and with our Clients.