Associate

Qualifications
As an Advisory Senior, you will make a significant technical contribution to client engagements and internal projects. Within your role, you will actively establish, maintain, and strengthen internal and external relationships. You'll also identify and escalate potential business opportunities for KPMG within ongoing projects. With a clear focus on anticipating and identifying risks, compliance, and governance issues, you'll escalate issues as appropriate to the Manager/Director. Working closely with colleagues, you will confirm whether the work plan is properly executed, documented, and concluded in compliance with KPMG’s guidelines. 

Skills and Attributes

• Working effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress
• Helping prepare reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties
• Developing and maintaining productive working relationships with client personnel
• Building strong internal relationships within KPMG and with other services across the organization
• Contribute to performance feedback for staff
• Other cognate duties

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in Finance, Business or other related field
• Industry related certification (e.g., ACCA, ICAEW, CIA, CRMA, CRICS, ACAMS)
• Approximately 2 to 4 years of related work experience
• Related audit or applicable business experience
• Proficiency with MS Office and Power BI
• International business experience preferred
• Knowledge in data analytics would be an advantage
• Demonstrated integrity, values, principles, and work ethic
• Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills
• Language proficiency: English and Arabic

Technical attributes

COSO Implementation /Internal Control over Financial Reporting

• Conduct COSO-aligned risk assessments to identify financial reporting and operational risks and pinpoint gaps across the five components and 17 principles.
• Perform process walkthroughs to understand actual practices, validate alignment with policies, and identify control design and implementation gaps.
• Develop ICFR testing programs to assess design and operating effectiveness of key controls.
• Lead client discussions to present gaps, root causes and practical remediation actions.
• Design policies, procedures and control frameworks that establish a robust and balanced internal control environment.