Experienced Associate/Senior | Audit & Assurance | Controls Assurance | Bahrain

ACCA Careers; Manama; On-site; BHD 9,000 - 14,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte Qatar/Middle East is seeking an Experienced Associate/Senior in Audit & Assurance, focusing on Controls Assurance in Bahrain. You will lead aspects of engagement delivery, tackle accounting and operational issues, and collaborate with teams to achieve audit quality and regulatory compliance.

Strong communication and risk awareness are essential, along with leveraging AI tools responsibly. The role emphasizes stakeholder trust, cross-border collaboration with Centers of Excellence, and

Qualifications

• Experience in controls testing and audits across financial processes.
• Ability to understand engagement scope and manage deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Participate in client proposals and oversee day-to-day engagement operations.
• Collaborate with onshore and offshore Centers of Excellence.
• Track deliverables and understand risks, controls, and findings.
• Prepare documentation and distinguish accounting judgments from audit conclusions.
• Develop relationships beyond the finance function to support audit quality.

Skills

Audit & Assurance

Controls Assurance

Client proposals

Stakeholder communication

Team collaboration

AI in audit

Regulatory awareness

Tools

Audit software

Job description

Position Summary

Location

Manama

Experienced Associate/ Senior | Audit & Assurance | Controls Assurance | Bahrain

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Experienced Associate/ Senior | Audit & Assurance | Controls Assurance

Skills

In your role as a Controls Assurance – Experienced Associate/ Senior, you will participate in client proposals and oversee day-to-day operations of engagements. You’ll closely work with the team to tackle accounting, reporting and operational issues. You will leverage your various skillsets to be an agile contributor to the practice, and you will demonstrate and develop your capabilities in the following areas:

• Builds trust and credibility with stakeholders by seeking to understand their service levels expectations and what matters to them individually
• Delivers high quality services by demonstrating a practical awareness of the impact of regulation and risk management on business processes and controls
• Takes responsibility for understanding key statistics and industry matters about entity before engagement begins
• Adapts template referral instructions to clearly outline the scope of procedures to be performed, including the areas of audit focus. Understands the structure of the group audit and for whom the referral instructions are intended
• Liaises effectively with onshore and offshore Centers of Excellence in the delivery of relevant tasks, understanding the scope of work delegated to them and the importance of providing accurate and complete information to them
• Assists in tracking deliverables from component auditors and seeks to understand the relevance and importance of these
• Appropriately links risks, controls, procedures and findings from allocated sections across the EMS file on a timely basis
• Can articulate the audit quality milestones, the ways in which teams demonstrate completeness of milestones, and how the audit quality milestones contribute to audit quality
• Understands the rationale behind the timings of the audit plan and is prepared to offer challenge around whether work can be performed earlier in the audit cycle
• Prepares documentation by anticipating questions that reviewers may ask and distinguishes accounting judgements and conclusions from auditing judgements and conclusions
• Understands that it is important to develop relationships beyond the finance function in order to better understand the entity's business and apply professional skepticism
• Has a practical awareness of the risks around the engagement lifecycle and regulatory environment, and relevant practice protection policies
• Demonstrates ability to apply AI in an audit context to improve efficiency and quality (e.g., relevant
• use cases), including prompt engineering fundamentals and structured problem-solving.
• Exercises professional scepticism when using AI-generated outputs—validates accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness before use in audit documentation/workpapers.
• Understands responsible AI expectations in professional services, including governance/risk
• considerations, confidentiality and data integrity, and use of firm-approved AI tools (including
• Deloitte‑specific tools where applicable).

Leadership capabilities:

• Builds own understanding of our purpose and values