Overview

Join us to expand your horizons, be inspired, face challenges, and most importantly, be yourself.

About the Financial Reporting Advisory Services (FRAS) Service Line

Where precision meets passion! Our GT UAE FRAS team provides essential advisory services in financial accounting, focusing on complex reporting standards, transaction support, and optimizing financial controls. Joining our team means being part of a dynamic group that empowers companies to achieve transparency, compliance, and excellence in financial reporting. The FRAS team sits within our Assurance service line and works closely with a range of clients across different industry sectors.

As a Senior Associate some of your responsibilities will include:

  • Supporting senior colleagues on financial accounting engagements
  • Leading in preparing work papers and drafts for financial accounting engagements
  • Leading in audit plans with a focus on identifying and addressing key financial reporting risks
  • Leading in preparation and review of financial statements, ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards (eg., IFRS, US GAAP)
  • Staying updated on new accounting standard and advising clients on the implications for their financial reporting
  • Supporting accounting for new standards, entity restructuring, and conversions
  • Providing hands-on client support that exceeds client expectations

Desired Skills and Experience

Think you’ve got what it takes to be a Senior Associate? Like the colour purple? Great. Here’s a few more boxes we’re also hoping you can tick:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance
  • ACA/ACCA/CPA qualified (or equivalent)
  • Solid understanding of IFRS requirements and practical knowledge around the application of accounting standards
  • Comfortable using Microsoft Office
  • Strong written and spoken English; Arabic speaking is advantageous
  • Willingness and ability to work additional hours, as needed, and travel to various client sites

About Grant Thornton

We go beyond business as usual, so you can too.
The global challenges facing businesses are unprecedented. That demands a different type of adviser. One willing to go beyond what’s expected to deliver an experience that’s more personal, agile and proactive. We embrace what makes each market unique. On a global scale. We are a global network with 68,000 passionate people in member firms in 147 markets, with one common goal — to help you realise your ambitions in any environment, for the environment. Which is why we combine global scale and capability with local insights and understanding. So, whether you’re growing in one market or many, looking to operate more effectively, managing risk and regulation, or realising stakeholder value, our firms have the assurance, tax and advisory services to meet your needs.

That’s Grant Thornton.