Quality Assurance Manager

Job description / Role

- Assist the Quality Assurance Director/HAAQM in supporting the firm’s implementation of Quality Standards including requirements of ISQM.
- Work closely with the Quality Director to evaluate the SoQM against the objectives, policies, and Global requirements.
- Provide guidance, training, and support to implement SoQM across all functions within the Firm.
- Assist the Quality Assurance Director in developing and performing the Annual Quality Monitoring.
- Develop and implement a remediation plan and follow up to ensure timely completion.
- Assist the Quality Assurance Director in supporting quality reviewers when required.
- Assist the quality reviewers in performing quality reviews and provide practical and technical feedback to the relevant Engagement Partners and engagement teams.
- Continuously keeping abreast of emerging audit quality findings.
- Assist in developing and monitoring Quality Indicators for the firm.
- Assist in the performance of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and provide meaningful remediation action points for the firm.
- Perform thematic reviews on topical or difficult audit technical topics.
- Collate information from all monitoring activities and develop a common themes or trends analysis for feedback to the Firm.
- Innovative development and delivery of training.
- Contribute to thought leadership regarding Auditing Standards and audit methodology including assisting in responding to relevant consultations.
- Develop communication that considers the firm's size and circumstances, to all staff and Partners and findings.
- Assist the Quality Assurance Director in preparing reports to Partnership periodically.
- Coordinate with the Firm's Head of Audit and Assurance, Head of Advisory, COO, and service line teams to implement best professional practices to manage Quality.

Requirements

- Attitude is everything, so in addition to your strong technical ability, you will be as passionate as we are about delivering the highest level of service to our clients.
- Ability to engage with a range of stakeholders and collaboratively manage projects.
- Ability to develop and deliver high-quality output against stated project objectives and meet tight deadlines.
- Ideally, experience working in a technical team environment either in the development of audit methodology and guidance or in the monitoring.
- Able to challenge the status quo.
- Exhibit excellent understanding and practical experience of the audit regulatory environment and brings a high level of audit technical expertise and knowledge.
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to working within and contributing to a positive team environment.
- Able to work well under pressure and demonstrate a positive and committed attitude in dealings with both team members and partners.

About the Company

BDO UAE is the Member Firm of BDO International with 64,300 people working out of over 1,400 offices worldwide.

At BDO UAE, we specialise in helping businesses, whether start-ups or multinationals, to achieve their goals. Through our own professional expertise and by working directly with organisations, we've developed a robust understanding of the factors that govern business growth. Our objective is to use this to help our clients maximise their potential.

We have a partner-led approach, which delivers the highest quality of service by using short, functional chains of communications to aid decision-making. Clients benefit from our fresh thinking, constructive challenge and practical understanding of the issues they face. Developing strong, personal relationships with our clients is at the forefront of our service approach at BDO UAE.