# Senior Audit Associate - U.S. Accounting & Audit

> SSC HR Solutions · New Cairo City, Egypt · — · Posted 2026-10-14

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Accounting

## Description

**Key Responsibilities**

-   Coordinate the day-to-day execution of audit engagements from planning through completion.
-   Develop an understanding of each client’s operations, risks, accounting policies, internal controls, significant estimates, and reporting requirements.
-   Prepare and update audit planning documentation, risk assessments, materiality calculations, audit programs, and engagement timelines.
-   Identify significant accounts, disclosures, assertions, fraud risks, and areas requiring heightened audit attention.
-   Assign work to audit staff and provide clear instructions regarding the purpose, scope, timing, and documentation expectations for each audit area.
-   Review staff workpapers for accuracy, completeness, technical sufficiency, cross-referencing, consistency, and support for the audit conclusions.
-   Ensure that audit work addresses relevant assertions, including existence or occurrence, completeness, cutoff, classification, accuracy, valuation, and rights and obligations.
-   Perform and supervise testing over complex audit areas and subsequent events.
-   Evaluate whether audit conclusions are supported by the evidence inspected and whether contradictory or incomplete documentation requires additional procedures.
-   Monitor outstanding client requests and follow up professionally to obtain documentation needed to complete the engagement.
-   Prepare or review financial statements, footnotes, adjusting journal entries, passed-adjustment schedules, and required supplementary information.
-   Ensure that financial statements agree with the trial balance, audit leads, supporting schedules, and proposed adjustments.
-   Monitor engagement hours, budget-to-actual results, and completion deadlines and communicate variances promptly to the manager.
-   Maintain accurate engagement-status information and ensure the binder is substantially complete before manager or partner review.
-   Clear review comments promptly and ensure that responses are reflected directly in the related workpapers when documentation updates are required.
-   Communicate audit issues, proposed adjustments, control observations, and unresolved matters to the manager or partner.
-   Coach and support audit staff through timely guidance, constructive review notes, and technical explanations.
-   Assist with client meetings, planning discussions, audit-status calls, and closing or exit meetings.
-   Maintain compliance with professional standards, ethics and independence requirements, firm policies, and quality-control procedures.

## Requirements

**Qualifications**

-   Bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related field.
-   Relevant professional audit experience, preferably involving financial statement audits.
-   Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and U.S. generally accepted auditing standards.
-   Experience preparing and reviewing audit workpapers and financial statements.
-   Ability to supervise, coach, and review the work of audit staff.
-   Strong understanding of audit documentation, risk assessment, materiality, substantive testing, and financial statement assertions.
-   Strong analytical, project-management, and problem-solving skills.
-   Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
-   Ability to manage multiple engagements and meet competing deadlines.
-   Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and electronic audit-workpaper systems.
-   CPA designation, CPA exam progress, or another relevant professional qualification is preferred but not required.

## Apply

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