Senior Associate - Accounting Advisory - OAS

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Assurance

Specialism
Assurance

Management Level
Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary
A career in our Accounting Advisory Services Deals Valuation practice, within Accounting Advisory Services, will provide you with the opportunity to be responsible for complex financial reporting issues around deals and other transformational events. You'll tackle client's needs with a solution oriented approach that creatively addresses complex financial reporting problems for high profile transactions and you'll have significant interaction with senior company management teams, bankers, lawyers and other advisers.

Our team helps organisations unlock greater deal value by providing robust value opinions and transaction model business advisory. As a part of the team, you'll research financial risks, provide forecast analysis, and develop financial models that assists our team in providing fair and accurate valuation advice and ultimately helps our clients enhance their deal value.

Responsibilities:

- You will be required to possess a strong ability to work under pressure and manage your time, as the delivery role requires the creation of high quality of complex client deliverables that will be submitted for the managers and partners' reviews.
- Ability delegate to more junior members to provide opportunities, and coach to help deliver results.
- Ability to try out new ideas and propose innovative solutions to problems
- Using a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends
- Working with others to gather information from different sources when analysing and solving complex problems
- Possess a solid knowledge of IFRS and prepare technical discussion papers for discussion with global industry experts and apply your critical thinking to provide our clients with high value and technically robust solutions;
- You are expected to keep developing your knowledge of IFRS and accounting matters and the impact on our clients so you can help shape their thinking and our success in the market;
- Take opportunities for exposure to different businesses, industries and markets;
- You will be working with colleagues in all Middle Eastern offices on client work and internal initiatives as well as with international teams where appropriate;
- Keeping up to date with current trends from the region and from across the world;
- You will also be expected to build and maintain positive, productive and professional relationships with client personnel and colleagues;
- The role sits within a rapidly growing part of PwC's Accounting Advisory team within our Middle East Other Assurance practice. You will be an integral part of the team responsible for the delivery of accounting solutions across a range of sectors. You will have access to all of the latest training and development tools and the support of the wider PwC network.
- Developing yourself personally, taking a keen interest in trends in capital markets and accounting matters and the impact on our clients so you can help shape their thinking and our success in the market.
- Maintain positive energy in the face of obstacles or when dealing with complex situations;
- The role sits within a rapidly growing part of PwC's Accounting Advisory team within our Middle East Assurance practice. You will be an integral part of the team responsible for the delivery accounting solutions across a range of sectors. You will have access to all of the latest training and development tools and the support of the wider PwC network.
- Provide supervision, continuous assistance and feedback on performance to associates; seek and provide upward feedback.
- Participate with the managers and partners in the resolution of significant issues by researching, documenting and communicating them to the audit team, particularly matters requiring consultation and raised by the audit team.

Requirements

Requirements:

- Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business studies, accounting or finance;
- Mandatory start one of the following qualifications: One of the following qualifications are mandatory for the candidate to perform the role: ACA, ACCA, CPA; or in the final stages of achieving the certificate
- Years of Experience: 3-5 years of audit or other relevant experience in a Big 4 firm preferably within the Middle East.. Any accounting conversion (IFRS/ US GAAP / Local GAAP /IPSAS) experience is beneficial. Similarly, any Middle East accounting or auditing experience is beneficial;
- Candidates with any experience of undertaking capital markets engagements (as outlined in business overview) will be preferred.
- Excellent organisational skills, having the ability to prioritise work load whilst being resilient and being able to cope well under pressure and meeting tight deadlines;
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written). Fluency in English is required and multilingual Arabic speaker is highly beneficial;
- Strong math and research skills, presentation skills, and implementation skills;
- In-depth understanding of IFRS and general accounting principles , as well as Local GAAP;
- Solid understanding of MS Office word, excel and PowerPoint softwares;
- Ability and willingness to travel within the Middle East and worldwide where the project dictates.
- The candidate will be achievement oriented with the ability to be flexible and adaptive on a daily basis. He will be able to work independently and as part of a team with a fast pace and a high energy that will translate into a high quality output;
- Ambition: Candidate should have a clear objective to develop a career in capital markets advisory work as outlined in the business overview.
- Excellent organisational skills, having the ability to prioritise work load whilst being resilient and being  able to cope well under pressure and meeting tight deadlines;
- Interpersonal skills: The role requires interacting with regional and international law firms, investment banks and senior management of our clients so the candidate should have excellent interpersonal skills.
- Strong interest and passion for enhancing technical accounting skills;
- Strong interest and passion for developing skills on using technology to enable efficient delivery.

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.