Assurance - Assurance Center of Excellence - Associate KSA

Assurance - Assurance Center of Excellence – Associate – Riyadh, KSA

With offices in 152 countries and nearly 328,000 professionals, we are one of the world’s leading professional services networks, helping organisations and individuals create lasting value through Assurance, Tax and Advisory services. For over 40 years, we have contributed to the Middle East’s transformation journey, partnering with governments and businesses to deliver sustainable solutions. Today, more than 12,000 of us across Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are shaping the region’s future.

Our Middle East Assurance practice includes over 2,300 people based in 12 countries across the region and is part of PwC’s global network that is operating worldwide. PwC Middle East’s Assurance practice combines the right mix of human‑led and tech‑powered solutions to provide our clients with quality audits and other risk services that create confidence and impact in our region and across society.

Middle East Assurance Center of Excellence is PwC ME’s assurance alternative delivery setup. Since launching in 2013, the delivery center has been providing a broad range of services to the Assurance business enabling growth and value creation by driving new ways of working to deliver quality and operational efficiency. Our center of excellence was established to help the business meet unique resource and service delivery needs, become more competitive in the market and enhance our value proposition to our clients and our people.

In this regional business unit we perform specific audit and administrative activities. Our digital services are developed with a process‑driven approach with corresponding training and technology. Financial statements are a core deliverable within this process, they must be drafted, checked and reviewed against a reporting framework checklist and finally translated. Your knowledge in accounting and reporting standards will grow through this experience.

New services are constantly developed in this growing area of the Assurance practice. You will have access to all of the latest training and development tools and the support of the wider PwC network.

• As an associate in the ACE team, the role includes wider practice communication responsibilities which relate to the execution of the individual work request.
• Executing the process workflow from the beginning to its final review stage, thereby working with people of different levels of experience in the business area.
• Developing yourself personally, taking a keen interest in the services and learning the skills needed to execute them to a high level of quality in an efficient way.
• Providing services against agreed deadlines and monitoring the time spent which is recorded on a timesheet system daily.
• Working with colleagues in all Middle Eastern offices on client work and internal initiatives.
• Keeping up to date with current trends from the region and from across the world in PwC’s service delivery centres.
• Collaborating with colleagues across different countries in the region on the standardised services to ensure they are being conducted in accordance with the user guide.

• A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or any other related academic major.
• Completed or pursuing a professional qualification, such as ACCA, CA, ACA, CPA (preferably).
• Having 0‑1 years of experience.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills that allow you to thrive in a team environment.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to prioritise workload whilst being resilient and coping well under pressure and meeting tight deadlines.
• Bilingual proficiency in Arabic and English (oral and written) is a plus.
• Business development and client relationship building skills.
• Willingness to challenge the ‘norms’ and to create a cohesive and effective working team.
• Knowledge in any audit technologies, and experience using data analytics tools is a plus.
• Commitment to valuing differences and working alongside diverse…