
Deloitte
Senior Manager Audit & Assurance
- Permanent
- Muscat, Oman
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 04/06/2026
Job overview
Date posted
20/04/2026
Location
Muscat, Oman
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Job description
Senior Manager Audit & Assurance role within Deloitte Muscat responsible for leading complex audit engagements, identifying strategic audit and risk priorities, and delivering high-quality audit services aligned with Deloitte audit methodology and professional standards. The role requires managing risk assessment procedures, developing audit plans, evaluating audit results, and ensuring alignment with business strategy and risk considerations. The Senior Manager contributes to risk, materiality, and scope discussions for audit reporting while leveraging National Audit Office tools, audit reporting guidance, and peer reporting trends. The position includes leading audit planning meetings, coordinating with specialists, managing component auditors, reviewing referral instructions, and resolving complex audit issues including challenging environments. The role requires driving robust revenue testing using process flow diagrams, evaluating recognition policies, assessing controls reliance, and addressing fraud risk. The Senior Manager develops comprehensive project plans including timelines, resource allocation, contingency planning, and coordination with extended engagement teams. Responsibilities include communicating project plans to client management, managing dependencies, negotiating overruns, and addressing project slippages. The role requires applying professional skepticism, consulting on complex matters, engaging quality control procedures, improving prior year testing, and ensuring alignment with global audit imperatives. The position also includes leadership responsibilities such as supporting talent development, strengthening communication, building stakeholder relationships, and contributing to Deloitte’s purpose and values. The role requires extensive knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), best practice reporting, audit documentation review, audit evidence evaluation, audit methodology, and professional accounting standards. The candidate must possess international accounting qualification including CA, ACCA, or CPA, with minimum 10 years of experience in public accounting, audit management, business strategy, budgeting, and audit delivery, preferably within large professional services firms.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Identify strategic audit and risk priorities, perform risk assessment procedures, develop audit plans, evaluate audit results, and provide strategic insights to stakeholders aligned with audit objectives and business strategy
- Lead risk, materiality, and audit scope discussions while utilizing National Audit Office tools, audit reporting guidance, and peer reporting analysis to ensure comprehensive audit coverage
- Coordinate audit planning meetings with specialists, manage component auditors, review referral instructions, resolve audit issues, and oversee group risk assessment and cross-border audit execution
- Drive revenue testing strategies including process flow diagrams, evaluation of revenue recognition policies, controls reliance assessment, and development of fraud risk mitigation approaches
- Develop and manage comprehensive project plans including timelines, resource allocation, contingency planning, coordination with extended engagement teams, and execution tracking
- Communicate audit plans and dependencies with client management, manage delays, negotiate overruns, and ensure adherence to audit timelines and deliverables
- Apply professional skepticism, perform early consultations, engage quality control procedures, improve prior year testing, and ensure adherence to global audit imperatives and audit quality standards
Experience & skills
- Possess minimum 10 years of experience in public accounting, auditing, audit management, budgeting, business planning, and business strategy within professional services firms, preferably Big Four environments, with demonstrated ability to lead complex audit engagements and deliver audit and assurance services aligned with professional standards and audit methodology
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), best practice reporting, audit reporting frameworks, financial statement auditing, audit evidence evaluation, and accounting standards while ensuring consistent application of applicable accounting and auditing standards across engagements
- Demonstrate experience in audit planning, risk assessment procedures, materiality determination, audit scope definition, and audit execution oversight including coordination with specialists, component auditors, and extended engagement teams
- Demonstrate strong capability in audit documentation review including evaluating completeness, accuracy, adequacy, and timely archiving of work papers while ensuring compliance with audit methodology and quality control procedures
- Possess international accounting qualification including CA, ACCA, or CPA with strong technical expertise in auditing standards, financial reporting frameworks, audit methodology, and professional accounting standards
- Demonstrate ability to manage large audit teams, coordinate complex engagements, develop project plans, allocate resources, manage timelines, and resolve risks and issues impacting audit delivery
- Demonstrate experience in revenue testing methodologies including process flow diagrams, revenue recognition assessment, controls reliance evaluation, fraud risk assessment, and tailored audit testing approaches
- Demonstrate proficiency in English communication including reading, speaking, and writing with preference for bilingual capability in Arabic and English and ability to collaborate with stakeholders across multiple organizational levels