Experienced Associate - Audit & Assurance (External Audit)

About the role

Deloitte is hiring an Experienced Associate in its Audit & Assurance practice in Jordan. The role sits within external audit and involves delivering high-quality audit services while building stakeholder trust and applying professional scepticism.

Key responsibilities

• Build trust with stakeholders by understanding their service level expectations
• Deliver high-quality services with awareness of regulation and risk management impacts on business processes and controls
• Research key statistics and industry matters about the entity before the engagement begins
• Adapt template referral instructions to define the scope of procedures and the audit focus, and liaise with onshore and offshore Centres of Excellence
• Track deliverables from component auditors and link risks, controls, procedures and findings across the audit file
• Articulate audit quality milestones and challenge the timing of the audit plan
• Prepare documentation, anticipate reviewer questions and distinguish accounting judgements from auditing judgements
• Develop relationships beyond the finance function and apply professional scepticism
• Use AI in an audit context to improve efficiency and quality, validating AI-generated outputs and following responsible AI expectations
• Supervise staff, inspect client financial records, compile and analyse data, prepare detailed audit reports and resolve accounting research issues

Required profile

• Degree in Accounting or a related field; graduate degree desired
• 2+ years of experience in public auditing and accounting, preferably at a Big Audit Firm
• International accounting qualification desired: CA, ACCA or CPA, preferably CA
• Fluent English (reading, speaking and writing); bilingual Arabic/English candidates preferred