Assistant Manager - IT Audit

We’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. We employ over 750 people across the UAE and experiencing exciting growth! We truly care about our colleagues, our clients, and the communities where we work and live.

As an Assistant Manager you will be playing a key role supporting the Partner in preparing audit strategy, managing a small portfolio and organising & reviewing work. You will manage a small team of Associates and be a key client contact. Discover your purple and join our IT Audit Team today!

Let us paint a picture for you

Imagine being part of a team that puts “we before me”, where flexibility is a mindset, and where you trust your colleagues to have your back.

Imagine working for an organization that believes in the power of authenticity in everything that we do. Whether you're steering discussions in a client meeting, tackling your fear of heights at the top of the Burj Khalifa or ziplining across Jebel Jais – bring your true self to work. Be a part of a team driven by a purpose of shaping the world that we live in, based on trust and integrity in markets, dynamic businesses, and communities where businesses and people thrive.

Join us to expand your horizons, be inspired, face challenges, and most importantly, be yourself.

About the IT Audit Service Line

Where precision meets passion! Our IT Audit team collaborates with external auditors to assess the reliability and integrity of IT systems used in financial reporting. Our primary objective is to ensure compliance and regulatory requirements and industry standards, including SOX compliance. We conduct thorough audits of IT controls, systems, and processes, delivering audit reports and recommendations that strengthen IT controls and mitigate risks for clients undergoing external audits. The IT Audit team sits within our Assurance service line and works closely with a range of clients across different industry sectors.

As an Assistant Manager some of your responsibilities will include:

• Developing the approach to IT risk on an exciting small portfolio of clients and building and maintaining good working relationships with all colleagues and clients
• Executing assigned client engagements from start to completion, which includes the overall planning, execution, direction, and completion of engagements and managing the engagements to budget
• Interacting with key client management to gather information, resolve problems, and make recommendations for business and process improvements
• Assisting Directors and Senior Managers in the production of relevant proposals and business development meetings and calls, including designing the needed IT audit approach and showcasing of data analytics capability
• Managing an IT audit team members on specific assignments, with specific line management responsibility to ensure IT audit work is appropriately completed to satisfy audit objectives
• Assisting partners in understanding IT audit risk, developing a data analytical approach and overall scope of IT audit services

Think you've got what it takes to be an Assistant Manager? Like the colour purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we're also hoping you can tick:

• 4 – 5 years of IT Audit experience at a top international Accounting / Consulting firm
• Bachelor's degree in an Accounting or Information Technology-related field is required
• Professionally qualified (CPA, CISA, CISSP, or CISM)
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills are required, Arabic speaking is advantageous
• Exceptional client service and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain outstanding client relationships, are expected
• Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced, interactive, results-based team environment is required
• Ability to document testing in a highly detailed and exacting manner is expected
• Excellent computer software skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite applications, are expected
• The willingness and ability to work additional hours, as needed, and travel to various client sites

At Grant Thornton we’re focused on making a difference in the lives of our clients, our colleagues, and our communities. That’s our purpose. Or, as we like to say, our purple.

Are you ready to Discover Your Purple? 

We are committed to electronically confirm with all applicants when an application has been received. If your application is shortlisted, then our talent acquisition team will get in touch with you.