Grant Thornton
Senior Associate – External Audit (Banking Specialist – Financial Services)
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 16/10/2025
Job overview
Date posted
01/09/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Professional qualification
Expiration date
16/10/2025
Job description
As a Senior Associate in External Audit with a banking specialization at Grant Thornton UAE, you will lead audits from planning to completion, focusing on financial services clients. You will supervise teams, review work papers, and prepare client deliverables including financial statements and management reports. You will identify audit risks, apply audit strategy, use tools such as AI and analytics, and manage client communications. You’ll also support budgeting, staff planning, training, and mentoring, while leveraging your technical IFRS expertise and group audit experience. This role demands high client service standards, excellent communication, and leadership in a fast-paced environment.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Run client engagements from start to finish including planning, executing, and completing financial audits within budget
- Prepare or review work papers and draft financial statements
- Produce deliverables and draft management reports
- Oversee audit fieldwork and completion phases
- Participate in audit planning discussions and identify audit risks
- Leverage AI, analytics, and data visualization tools
- Act as key client contact and exceed client expectations
- Supervise, train, and mentor associates and interns
- Gather information, resolve audit-related issues, and recommend business improvements
- Gain deep understanding of client operations and utilize this knowledge in audits
- Attend professional development sessions regularly
- Assist Managers with engagement budgeting and staffing
Experience & skills
- 3–4 years of External Audit experience at a top international firm
- Professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA, or CPA
- Strong experience auditing banking and financial services clients
- Experience with complex audits and delegation of tasks
- Comfortable with audit software and Microsoft Office
- Strong IFRS technical accounting skills
- Proficiency in financial statement consolidation
- Experience conducting group audits
- Ability to supervise staff and lead audit projects
- Experience managing multiple engagements independently
- Exceptional client service and relationship-building skills
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills
- Willingness to work extra hours and travel to client sites
