Audit
Registered Auditor / Audit Director
Act as signing auditor for KCM's UAE engagements and build out the audit practice. Licence-only, full-time and origination models are all considered.
Dubai1 openingFull time or part time
- Practice
- Audit
- Location
- Dubai
- Experience
- 5+ years UAE statutory audit
- Qualification
- UAE registered practising auditor
- Reports to
- Partner, UAE operations
Role purpose
To enable KCM Consultants to hold a UAE audit licence and sign UAE statutory audits in its own name. Finalisation is presently routed through a collaborating audit firm, with KCM carrying out the field work and working papers.
Key responsibilities
- Hold registration as a practising auditor with the UAE Ministry of Economy and act as signing auditor for KCM's UAE engagements.
- Review and finalise audit files prepared by KCM teams in Dubai and India.
- Own audit quality control, documentation standards and independence procedures.
- Manage the transition of finalisation work away from the collaborating firm.
- Over time, build out a full audit practice, including team, methodology and tooling.
- Where the candidate has market connects, contribute to client origination.
Candidate profile
- Registered practising auditor in the UAE with a valid licence (mandatory).
- 5 years or more in UAE statutory audit.
- Comfortable operating in a small, early-stage practice supported by an offshore team.
Engagement models
All three of the following models are acceptable.
- Licence and limited time: approximately one-third time involvement, no practice building expected.
- Full time, operational: runs the audit function without a business development mandate.
- Full time with origination: fixed plus variable linked to work brought in.
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