Assurance - ACE - Associate

Job description / Role

Assurance - ACE - Associate

Line of Service
Assurance

Industry/Sector
Not Applicable

Specialism
Assurance

Management Level
Associate

Job Description & Summary

Due to the rapid growth of our regional Assurance/Arabic Centre of Excellence (ACE) in Amman, we currently have opportunities for ambitious and motivated graduates who are able to communicate comfortably in English and Arabic as part of virtual teams. Analysts support the mainstream core Assurance (Audit) departments and work on a huge range of clients across the region. In this business area we perform standardised and routine audit and administrative procedures. Our services are developed with a process-driven approach with corresponding training and technology. Financial statements are a core deliverable within this process, they have to be drafted, checked and reviewed against a checklist and finally translated. Your knowledge of IFRS will grow through this experience. During the core audit season, accounting graduates will join the engagement teams and perform the vouching and documentation of test of details. New services are constantly developed in this growing area of the Assurance practice.

Responsibilities
- You will be required to possess strong project management skills to execute the process work flow from the beginning to its final review stage, thereby working with people of different level of experience in the business area.
- Developing yourself personally, taking a keen interest in the services and learning the skills needed to execute them to a high level of quality in an efficient way.
- The role also requires that the candidate is able to collaborate with colleagues across different countries in the region on the standardised services to ensure they are being conducted in accordance with the user guide.
- Based on request requirements the candidates will provide the service against agreed deadlines and monitors the time spent which is recorded on a time sheet system daily.
- Working with colleagues in all Middle Eastern offices on client work and internal initiatives and,
- Keeping up to date with current trends from the region and from across the world in PwC's service delivery centres.
- As Analyst in the ACE team, the role includes wider practice communication responsibilities which relate to the execution of the individual work request.
- The role sits within a rapidly growing part of PwC's Assurance/Arabic Centre of Excellence. You will be an integral part of the team responsible for the delivery of our services to the Middle Eastern Assurance practice. You will have access to all of the latest training and development tools and the support of the wider PwC network.

Requirements

Preferred skills
- The candidate will be achievement oriented with the ability to be flexible and adaptive on a daily basis. They 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.
- Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevant subject areas such as Accounting, Business Administration, Finance, Management or IMS.
- Successful candidates who grow in this role and/or might transfer into the wider Assurance business should aim for mandatory qualifications such as: ACCA, IFRS Diploma, PMP.
- Ability to learn in a culture where one takes responsibility for their personal growth and development.
- Able to work under pressure and meeting multiple deadlines a day while maintain a positive attitude and exemplary customer service.
- Strong interest and passion for attention to detail in a multi-cultural working environment.
- 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.
- Proven IT skills in the following programmes MS Office: word, excel and power point.
- Language Skills: Excellent communication skills (verbal and written). Fluent in English and Arabic.
- The ability and willingness to travel within the Middle East where the project dictates might be required.

Minimum years experience required
- Years of Experience: Newly graduated and ideally you will have some work experience from an administrative / analytical background within a corporate / professional environment such as internships.

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.