Assistant Manager/ Manager - Quality Assurance and Compliance

As one of the leading PIE Auditors in Hong Kong, we are keen to invite enthusiastic team players and motivators to join the firm in maintaining a quality environment in our provision of audit and assurance services to clients. To achieve this objective, we are looking for candidates who are self-motivated to drive initiatives and plans.

Job duties:

• Enforce firm-wide quality related policies and procedures from strategy to execution;
• Coordinate with other internal functions and audit departments to ensure consistent application and implementation of the entire System of Quality Management (SOQM) framework including but not limited to:
  • Perform continuous risk assessment for the firm’s SOQM to allow modification and improvement to firm-wide policy and procedures ;
  • Assist firm leadership to uphold governance environment;
  • Enforce compliance to relevant ethical requirements as required in the Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants issued by HKICPA;
  • Safeguard the acceptance and continuance policy and procedures of client relationships and specific engagements and review documentation for acceptance and continuance procedures
  • Continual enhancement in engagement performance in various aspect including audit methodologies, engagement review and other engagements related issues;
  • Continual enhancement to identify and evaluate the use of resources of the firm within the SOQM;
  • Maintain an effective and transparent transfer of information and communication within the firm and with external parties; and
  • Perform the monitoring functions on a regular basis according to firm policy
  • Perform evaluation for any root cause analysis and set out remediation plan for the monitoring result
• Monitor firm-wide compliance to local/other jurisdictional regulatory requirement, including but not limited to: 
  • Respond to various regulatory review and inspection, questionnaire
  • Ensure the firm follows the local authority’s registration requirements for corporate practice and PIE Auditor
  • Ensure the firm follows the requirements from other jurisdiction e.g. Ministry of Finance (MoF) from Mainland China
  • Ensure the firm follows the requirements of an Authorized Employer/Authorized Supervisor as required by HKICPA
  • Respond to any ad hoc / thematic review from regulators

• Perform reviews of financial statements selected (Regular internal review)
• Inspect audit working papers to assess the degree of compliance with the professional standards
• Work with the audit engagement teams and provide support in identifying engagement risks and establishing relevant measures to mitigate the risks
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm’s/client’s expectations
• Take the lead to enhance the quality of audit programs and deploy the changes to the professional staff
• Assist in developing and updating the audit programs in accordance with professional standards
• Assist in maintaining and conducting archiving procedures in a regular basis
• Provide trainings and updates in related to regulatory requirements to the professional staff in a regular basis

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or above
• Certified Public Accountant registered with HKICPA, or a member of an accountancy body that is a member of the International Federation of Accountants
• Solid technical background, with at least 3-years post qualifications audit experience
• Extensive professional experience in financial reporting and auditing
• Relevant experience in assurance gained with big-4 or sizable accounting firms
• Good communication skills in both English and Chinese
• Strong analytical, problem solving and project management skills
• The candidate must exhibit independence motivation and a desire to uphold the quality of the practice
• Ability to work with executive levels of the firm’s management
• Candidate with less experience will be considered as an Assistant Manager