Senior Manager Financial Services Audit

PwC; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Pakistan invites a Senior Manager to lead a portfolio of complex financial services audits, overseeing engagement quality and senior client relationships. You will guide multidisciplinary teams, drive portfolio management, and contribute to market initiatives within PwC's Financial Services Assurance practice.

The role emphasizes governance, risk management, and delivery of high‑quality assurance across banks, insurers, asset managers and capital markets entities in Pakistan.

Qualifications

• Qualified Chartered Accountant with post-qualification external audit/assurance experience.
• Strong understanding of IFRS and ISAs, including IFRS 9/IFRS 17 familiarity preferred for insurance portfolios.
• Proven ability to lead complex financial services audits and manage multiple engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of complex audits and assurance engagements for financial services clients.
• Set engagement direction with partners and directors, challenging audit strategy against risks.
• Oversee key judgments and complex matters across statements, regulatory considerations and going concern.

Skills

IFRS Knowledge

ISAs

Stakeholder communication

Portfolio leadership

People development

Digital mindset

Team collaboration

Education

Chartered Accountant (Pakistan)

Job description

Job Description:

Line of Service

Assurance

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Assurance

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in audit and assurance focus on providing independent and objective assessments of financial statements, internal controls, and other assurable information enhancing the credibility and reliability of this information with a variety of stakeholders. They evaluate compliance with regulations including assessing governance and risk management processes and related controls.

In financial statement audit at PwC, you will focus on obtaining reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes the auditor’s opinion.

The Senior Manager will provide senior‑level leadership across a portfolio of complex financial services audit engagements. Working closely with engagement partners and directors, the role will oversee audit quality, resolve significant accounting and auditing matters, manage senior client relationships and lead multidisciplinary teams. The position also contributes to portfolio management, talent development, market initiatives and the growth of PwC Pakistan's Financial Services Assurance practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of complex audits and assurance engagements for banks, digital and microfinance banks, development finance institutions, insurance and takaful companies, asset managers, mutual funds, non-banking finance companies and capital‑market entities.
• Set engagement direction with partners and directors, challenge the audit strategy and ensure appropriate responses to significant, elevated and emerging risks.
• Oversee key judgments and complex matters, including expected credit losses, impairment, fair values, insurance contract liabilities, actuarial assumptions, consolidation, going concern, regulatory capital and solvency, and emerging financial products.
• Review critical audit documentation, financial statements, audit reports, regulatory returns, management letters and communications to audit committees and boards.
• Lead consultations with technical accounting, methodology, risk and quality, independence, legal, actuarial, valuation, tax and technology specialists, ensuring conclusions are timely and appropriately documented.
• Maintain senior relationships with chief financial officers, finance leadership, audit committees, boards and other key stakeholders, providing clear insight while preserving auditor independence.
• Anticipate and manage engagement quality, acceptance and continuance, independence, delivery, reputation and commercial risks; escalation matters promptly to engagement leadership.
• Oversee portfolio economics, resource deployment, scheduling, budgets, recoveries, billing and collection, and drive efficient delivery without compromising quality.
• Direct and develop managers and wider engagement teams through coaching, performance feedback, succession planning, technical guidance and on-the-job learning.
• Support regulatory and group‑auditor interactions, quality reviews and inspections, including timely preparation of robust supporting documentation and remediation actions.
• Contribute to proposals, client account planning, thought leadership, market initiatives and development of audit and assurance opportunities within permissible independence boundaries.

Champion audit quality, professional scepticism, ethical conduct, collaboration, innovation and consistent application of PwC policies and values

Academic and Professional Qualifications

• Qualified Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan.
• Minimum five years of post-qualification experience, substantially in external audit and assurance.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex financial services audits and managing multiple engagements or a significant client portfolio.
• Broad sector exposure across banking, insurance, asset management, non-banking finance or capital markets is strongly preferred.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Advanced knowledge of IFRS Accounting Standards and ISAs, particularly IFRS 9; strong IFRS 17 knowledge is preferred for insurance‑focused portfolios.
• Strong understanding of Pakistan's financial services regulatory environment, including relevant requirements of ICAP, SBP, SECP, AOB and applicable corporate and governance frameworks.
• Proven ability to resolve complex technical matters, make balanced judgments, influence senior stakeholders and communicate effectively with boards and audit committees.
• Strong portfolio leadership, commercial awareness, negotiation, project management and resource‑management capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate and develop high‑performing teams and to collaborate across assurance, tax, advisory and specialist functions.
• Digital mindset with practical experience using audit platforms, data analytics and technology‑enabled procedures.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to prepare concise, high‑quality reports and presentations.

Education

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