Senior Manager - Financial Services Audit

About the role

PwC Pakistan is hiring a Senior Manager for its Financial Services Audit line of service. The role provides senior-level leadership across a portfolio of complex financial services audit engagements, working closely with engagement partners and directors to oversee audit quality, resolve significant accounting and auditing matters, manage senior client relationships and lead multidisciplinary teams. It also contributes to portfolio management, talent development, market initiatives and the growth of the Financial Services Assurance practice.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of complex audits and assurance engagements for banks, digital and microfinance banks, development finance institutions, insurance and takaful companies, asset managers, mutual funds, non-banking finance companies and capital-market entities.
• Set engagement direction with partners and directors, challenge the audit strategy and respond to significant, elevated and emerging risks.
• Oversee key judgments such as expected credit losses, impairment, fair values, insurance contract liabilities, actuarial assumptions, consolidation, going concern, regulatory capital and solvency.
• Review critical audit documentation, financial statements, audit reports, regulatory returns, management letters and communications to audit committees and boards.
• Lead consultations with technical specialists and maintain senior relationships with CFOs, finance leadership, audit committees and boards.
• 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.
• Minimum five years of post-qualification experience, substantially in external audit and assurance.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex financial services audits and managing multiple engagements or a significant client portfolio.
• Broad sector exposure across banking, insurance, asset management, non-banking finance or capital markets is strongly preferred.

Required skills

• Advanced knowledge of IFRS Accounting Standards and ISAs, particularly IFRS 9; strong IFRS 17 knowledge preferred for insurance portfolios.
• Strong understanding of Pakistan's financial services regulatory environment (ICAP, SBP, SECP, AOB).
• 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 using audit platforms, data analytics and technology-enabled procedures.
• Excellent written and verbal English.