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About Kuwait:

When it comes to delivering an audit, quality is KPMG’s top priority. Our audit professionals’ foremost responsibility is to serve investors, the capital markets, audit committees, and management with reasonable assurance.

Position: Manager Department: Audit Location: Kuwait

Minimum Qualification:

• Degree with accounting major
• Qualification –CA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent is a must
• Practical knowledge of IFRS and ISA

Experience Expected:

• Professional accounting qualification, such as CPA, ACCA, CA, or equivalent
• At least 6-7 years of professional experience in external audit
• Experience in Auditing Telcommunication clients
• Thorough knowledge of current auditing techniques and experience in managing teams
• Experience with a Big 4 accounting firm
• Experience with the risk-based audit approach
• Understanding of currently applicable and upcoming IFRS and ISA
• Coaching, mentoring, and counseling experience
• Fluent English communication skills and effective presentation skills

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Overseeing and directing work at client's premises and liaising with clients at the highest level.
• Ensuring the firm is compliant with risk management procedures.
• Analyze problems, identify core issues, investigate, evaluate, and integrate information.
• Providing strong leadership and direction to designated team.
• Experience in managing a group of people and directing their behavior toward the firm’s values and beliefs.
• Experience in presenting technical courses on auditing standards, as well as International Financial Reporting Standards.
• Maintain a working knowledge of and research findings regarding accounting literature, trends, and technical issues relevant to the client's industry
• Oversee engagement management, including managing the budget, resourcing strategy, billing and collections, and progress against the plan, timeline, and milestones
• You'll actively establish, maintain, and strengthen internal and external relationships and confirm that work delivered to clients is of a high quality
• Set the culture for the engagement team and mentor members in their career development
• Build and manage client relationships and accounts, including driving the client experience on engagements
• Understand and utilize KPMG's Audit Methodology and the Risk Management policies and procedures
• Mentoring and coaching of middle management team and Providing feedback to employees on their performance against the objectives you set for them.