Assistant Manager - Audit - Audit & Assurance - Riyadh - Insurance

Location

Riyadh

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During your tenure as an Assistant Manager in the insurance sector, you will demonstrate and develop your capabilities in the following areas:

• Takes responsibility for understanding key statistics and industry matters about the entity before engagement begins, for example, by asking other team members and reading the prior year's financial statements (including the enhanced audit report) or audit documentation.
• Understand the allocation of responsibilities between the engagement team and experts or specialists, including timescales and how the work of experts and specialists will contribute to the objectives of the audit.
• Coordinates with management and experts/specialists for the key engagement or project deliverables and due dates.
• Track the findings of work performed and follow up on the impact of work to be performed by other members of the engagement team.
• Applies guidance material in relevant guides, practice aids, and tools so that an appropriate level of professional skepticism is reflected in procedures performed, evidence obtained, and conclusions reached.
• Signs off appropriately on work performed and reviewed. Takes responsibility for meaningful completion of all necessary checklists, and procedures, and tailoring and concluding questions prior to signing\-off.
• Proactively checks whether others have signed off appropriately and follows up where necessary.
• Contributes to the development of a comprehensive project plan, using prior year knowledge to help identify audit priorities that can be performed earlier in the audit cycle.
• Seeks awareness of contingency plans if the entity's management team fails to meet their deadlines.
• Prepares and reviews documentation by anticipating questions that reviewers may ask, including not just the conclusion but the relevant facts, analysis, reference to authoritative literature, and professional judgments made in reaching it.
• Encourages wider team to adopt an attitude of professional skepticism, to have a questioning mindset, and to further investigate as and when appropriate. Can identify the key questions to be answered.
• Document objectivity, independence, and continuance decisions, checking that sufficient inquiries have been made and that all information has been captured.
• Check that staff on the engagement have adequate technical knowledge, including industry knowledge, for the areas in which they are working.
• Provides briefings as required.
• Demonstrates ability to apply AI in an audit context to improve efficiency and quality (e.g., relevant use cases), including prompt engineering fundamentals and structured problem\-solving.
• Exercises professional scepticism when using AI\-generated outputs—validates accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness before use in audit documentation/workpapers.
• Understands respo