External Audit Manager (Bilingual FR/EN)

PwC South Africa; Quebec; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Inclusive benefits

Flexibility programs

Job summary

PwC South Africa is hiring a manager in External Audit services in Quebec, Canada. This role focuses on leading client teams, examining financial records, and coaching staff, ensuring a high level of service delivery.

The ideal candidate must have a Canadian CPA or equivalent, strong understanding of auditing standards, and fluency in English and French. Compensation includes a competitive salary ranging from approximately $68,600 to $114,400, alongside inclusive benefits.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated progressive experience at the manager level working with external audit clients.
• Qualified Canadian CPA or equivalent reciprocal/recognized designation.
• Excellent understanding of Canadian auditing standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead client-facing teams.
• Examine financial and accounting records.
• Perform design-effectiveness walkthroughs.

Skills

Progressive experience at the manager level

Qualified Canadian CPA or equivalent designation

Excellent understanding of Canadian auditing standards

Knowledge of IFRS and ASPE

Excellent communication skills

Ability to multitask

Coaching and directing engagement teams

Fluency in English and French

Education

Canadian CPA or equivalent

Job description

Job Summary

A career within External Audit services, providing a range of Assurance services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast‑growing to large entities. Our clients are well known brands with broad international reach. We focus on using the latest technology to reduce manual testing, ensuring focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead client‑facing teams.
• Examine financial and accounting records, documents, and observe processes and procedures.
• Ask formal written and informal oral questions to senior individuals at client organizations.
• Handle conflict resolution and manage expectations of stakeholders at varying levels of seniority.
• Perform design‑effectiveness walkthroughs and test the operational effectiveness of client internal controls.
• Make judgments on testing approaches for significant accounting estimates.
• Verify and test financial statements and supporting disclosures.
• Assume a coaching and performance‑management role that promotes staff development.
• Contribute to a high‑performing team that lives the PwC values.
• Instruct milestone training courses to staff.
• Network within the local business community.
• Prepare and deliver competitive audit proposals.
• Develop industry and technical expertise in audit and assurance through written reports, management presentations, and high‑quality deliverables.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated progressive experience at the manager level working with external audit clients in a professional services firm.
• Qualified Canadian CPA or equivalent reciprocal/recognised designation.
• Excellent understanding of Canadian auditing standards; knowledge of US auditing standards and/or PCAOB considered an asset.
• Knowledge of IFRS and ASPE; US GAAP considered an asset.
• Thorough technical skills and experience regarding applicable accounting reporting and auditing standards.
• Experience designing engagement procedures based on risk and materiality.
• Previous experience coaching and directing engagement teams.
• Excellent project‑management skills and ability to manage relationships at all levels within PwC and the client’s organization.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to multitask in a fast‑paced and changing environment.
• Commitment to valuing differences and coaching diverse people and perspectives.
• Fluency in English and French; required to support or collaborate with English‑speaking clients, colleagues, and stakeholders during employment with PwC Canada.

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive base salary (approximately $68,600 – $114,400) with eligibility for variable incentive pay programs.

We offer competitive compensation, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that help you thrive in work and life.

Community & Inclusion

PwC Canada acknowledges that we work and live across Turtle Island, on the land that is now known as Canada, which are the lands of the ancestral, treaty and unceded territories of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. We recognise the systemic racism, colonialism and oppression that Indigenous Peoples have experienced and still go through, and we commit to allyship and solidarity.

We’re committed to providing accommodation throughout the application, interview, and employment process. If you require accommodation to be at your best, please let us know during the application process.