Audit Manager

About the role

The Audit Manager leads the day-to-day delivery of audit engagements from planning through completion. The role directs teams, reviews audit work and financial statements, resolves significant issues, manages client relationships, and maintains audit quality, deadlines, and engagement budgets. Escalates matters requiring significant judgment to the Senior Manager or Engagement Partner.

Key responsibilities

• Plan audit engagements by developing a risk-based audit strategy, understanding the client's business, industry, financial reporting processes, and internal controls, and setting the scope, materiality, timetable, staffing plan, and audit procedures
• Manage audit execution by directing fieldwork, assigning responsibilities, monitoring progress and outstanding information requests, and adjusting the audit response when new risks or findings arise.
• Review audit work including working papers, evidence, and conclusions prepared by the team to ensure procedures address identified risks and significant judgments are clearly documented and supported.
• Resolve accounting and audit matters by evaluating complex areas such as revenue recognition, accounting estimates, impairment, financial instruments, leases, related parties, fraud risks, and going concern.n
• Review financial statements for accuracy, consistency, and compliance with the applicable reporting framework.
• Lead client communication as a primary contact for the client's finance leadership to discuss audit progress, findings, proposed adjustments, control deficiencies, and matters requiring management action.
• Manage completion and reporting by overseeing the evaluation of misstatements, final analytical procedures, subsequent events, management representations, clearance of review notes, and preparation of reporting materials for Partner review.
• Maintain audit quality and compliance by ensuring the engagement complies with applicable auditing standards, independence and ethical requirements, firm methodology, documentation policies, and quality review procedures
• Lead and develop the team by coaching team members, providing timely feedback, reviewing performance, and creating opportunities for their technical and professional development.t
• Manage engagement economics by monitoring budgets, hours, work in progress, billing, and overruns, and identifying causes of variances

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting
• CPA qualification or equivalent professional certification is an advantage
• Substantial external audit experience, including responsibility for leading teams and managing multiple engagements
• Strong knowledge of applicable auditing standards and financial reporting frameworks, including PSAK/IFRS where relevant
• Sound professional judgment and the ability to assess complex issues, challenge assumptions, and reach evidence-based conclusions
• Strong financial statement review, technical writing, project management, and client communication skills
• Ability to coach teams and communicate effectively in professional English and Indonesian