Experienced Associate​/Senior | Audit & Assurance | Controls Assurance

Position Summary Location

Manama

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In your role as a Controls Assurance – Experienced Associate/ Senior, you will participate in client proposals and oversee day-to-day operations of engagements. You’ll closely work with the team to tackle accounting, reporting and operational issues. You will leverage your various skillsets to be an agile contributor to the practice, and you will demonstrate and develop your capabilities in the following areas:

• Builds trust and credibility with stakeholders by seeking to understand their service levels expectations and what matters to them individually
• Delivers high quality services by demonstrating a practical awareness of the impact of regulation and risk management on business processes and controls
• Takes responsibility for understanding key statistics and industry matters about entity before engagement begins
• Adapts template referral instructions to clearly outline the scope of procedures to be performed, including the areas of audit focus. Understands the structure of the group audit and for whom the referral instructions are intended
• Liaises effectively with onshore and offshore Centers of Excellence in the delivery of relevant tasks, understanding the scope of work delegated to them and the importance of providing accurate and complete information to them
• Assists in tracking deliverables from component auditors and seeks to understand the relevance and importance of these
• Appropriately links risks, controls, procedures and findings from allocated sections across the EMS file on a timely basis
• Can articulate the audit quality milestones, the ways in which teams demonstrate completeness of milestones, and how the audit quality milestones contribute to audit quality
• Understands the rationale behind the timings of the audit plan and is prepared to offer challenge around whether work can be performed earlier in the audit cycle
• Prepares documentation by anticipating questions that reviewers may ask and distinguishes accounting judgements and conclusions from auditing judgements and conclusions
• Understands that it is important to develop relationships beyond the finance function in order to better understand the entity's business and apply professional skepticism
• Has a practical awareness of the risks around the engagement lifecycle and regulatory environment, and relevant practice protection policies
• 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/work papers.
• Understands responsible AI expectations in professional services, including governance/risk
• considerations, confidentiality and data integrity, and use of firm-approved AI tools (including
• Deloitte‑specific tools where applicable).

• Builds own understanding of our purpose and values