Senior Manager - Audit and Assurance

About the role

PwC Pakistan's audit and assurance practice is looking for a Senior Manager to provide senior-level leadership across a portfolio of complex audit engagements. Working closely with engagement partners and directors, the role oversees audit quality, resolves significant accounting and auditing matters, manages senior client relationships and leads multidisciplinary teams, while contributing to portfolio management, talent development and market initiatives.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of complex audits and assurance engagements across manufacturing, oil & gas, telecommunication, mining, banking and not-for-profit entities.
• Set engagement direction with partners and directors, challenge the audit strategy and respond to significant, elevated and emerging risks.
• Oversee key judgments on expected credit losses, impairment, fair values, contract assets and liabilities, actuarial assumptions, consolidation, going concern and emerging financial products.
• Review critical audit documentation, financial statements, audit reports, regulatory returns, management letters and communications to audit committees and boards.
• Lead consultations with technical accounting, methodology, risk, quality, independence, legal, actuarial, valuation, tax and technology specialists.
• Maintain senior relationships with CFOs, finance leadership, audit committees and boards while preserving auditor independence.
• Manage engagement quality, acceptance, continuance, independence, delivery, reputation and commercial risks, escalating matters promptly.
• Oversee portfolio economics, resource deployment, scheduling, budgets, recoveries, billing and collection.
• Direct and develop managers and engagement teams through coaching, performance feedback, succession planning and technical guidance.
• Support regulatory and group-auditor interactions, quality reviews and inspections, and contribute to proposals, client account planning and market initiatives.

Required profile

• Qualified Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP).
• Minimum six years of post-qualification experience, substantially in external audit and assurance.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex audits, managing multiple engagements and a significant client portfolio across sectors.

Required skills

• Advanced knowledge of IFRS Accounting Standards, IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards and International Standards on Auditing.
• Strong understanding of Pakistan's regulatory environment (ICAP, SBP, SECP, AOB) and corporate governance frameworks.
• Ability to resolve complex technical matters, influence senior stakeholders and communicate with boards and audit committees.
• Portfolio leadership, commercial awareness, negotiation, project management and resource management.
• Experience with audit platforms, data analytics and technology-enabled procedures.