Deloitte
Manager – External Audit & Audit Assurance
- Permanent
- Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 28/05/2026
Job overview
Date posted
13/04/2026
Location
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Salary
SAR 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Job description
Deloitte is one of the largest professional services firms globally, recognized as Best Employer in the Middle East, Best Consulting Firm, and recipient of the Middle East Training & Development Excellence Award. The Manager – External Audit & Audit Assurance role based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, operates within Deloitte’s audit practice and supports building confidence and trust in the markets while upholding integrity of organizations. The role involves managing external audit engagements and contributing to Audit & Assurance services by applying professional skepticism, reviewing financial statements, enhanced audit reports, and audit documentation, and ensuring audit quality across engagements. The Manager is responsible for understanding key statistics and industry matters related to client entities, particularly within the insurance industry, reviewing prior-year financial statements, and analyzing audit documentation to determine audit priorities. The role includes coordinating with management, experts, and specialists, tracking findings, ensuring appropriate audit procedures, applying guidance materials, practice aids, and audit tools, and ensuring appropriate documentation, sign-offs, and checklists are completed. The position requires preparing and reviewing audit documentation, referencing authoritative literature, documenting professional judgments, and ensuring compliance with independence, objectivity, and continuance requirements. The Manager contributes to project planning, identifies audit priorities, manages timelines, ensures contingency planning, and supports engagement teams by providing technical briefings and industry knowledge. Additionally, the role includes overseeing engagement teams, ensuring staff possess adequate technical expertise, monitoring deliverables, and maintaining compliance with audit standards. Leadership responsibilities include supporting Deloitte’s shared values, promoting professional development, maintaining accountability for performance, and contributing to talent development and business priorities. The role requires strong experience in external audit, engagement management, accounting, CPA or SOCPA certification, insurance sector exposure, and fluency in English with Arabic as an advantage.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Take responsibility for understanding key statistics, industry matters, and entity-specific risks by reviewing prior-year financial statements, enhanced audit reports, and audit documentation before engagement begins
- Coordinate with management, experts, and specialists to manage engagement deliverables, timelines, responsibilities, and ensure audit objectives are achieved within defined schedules
- Track findings from audit work performed, follow up on outstanding items, and monitor the impact of work performed by engagement team members and specialists
- Apply guidance materials, practice aids, audit tools, and authoritative literature to ensure appropriate professional skepticism, audit procedures, audit evidence, and conclusions are maintained
- Sign off on audit work appropriately, ensure completion of audit checklists, procedures, and documentation, and proactively verify engagement team sign-offs and follow up where required
- Contribute to development of comprehensive audit project plans, identify audit priorities based on prior-year knowledge, and establish contingency plans for missed deadlines by client management
- Prepare and review audit documentation including facts, analysis, professional judgments, references to authoritative literature, and conclusions to ensure audit quality and compliance
- Ensure objectivity, independence, and continuance decisions are documented, verify team technical knowledge including industry knowledge, and provide technical briefings to engagement staff
Experience & skills
- Possess 6+ years of experience in external auditing within leading professional services firms or large multinational organizations including engagement management responsibilities
- Demonstrate expertise in External Audit, Audit & Assurance, financial statements, audit documentation, enhanced audit reports, audit procedures, and audit evidence
- Hold a Degree in Accounting or related field with strong technical knowledge of accounting principles and audit methodologies
- Possess professional certification such as CPA, SOCPA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification
- Demonstrate experience in insurance industry auditing and understanding of insurance-specific accounting and audit requirements
- Demonstrate successful record of engagement management including planning, execution, coordination with specialists, and delivery of audit engagements
- Demonstrate proficiency in English language including reading, speaking, and writing with Arabic language considered an advantage
- Demonstrate ability to review audit documentation, apply authoritative literature, maintain professional skepticism, and ensure compliance with independence, objectivity, and audit standards