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Non-Audit Assurance Partner - Dubai

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CharteredPartners is seeking an experienced assurance professional to join our client in Dubai at Partner level. The successful candidate will lead a non-audit assurance practice, taking sign-off responsibility for assurance reports, building the client and referral base across the ADGM and DIFC frameworks, and growing the service line. Specific qualifications, regulatory fluency and technical breadth are detailed in the sections that follow.

Confidential Client. Applying to this position means that you are interested to have an initial confidential discussion about how we can help you to identify and join a new accounting-firm practice. With your authorisation we will exclusively run the entire application and recruitment process for you, keeping you apprised at every step. With over 30 years' combined experience of helping the most talented accounting, audit, tax and advisory professionals to make safe, well-judged moves into rewarding new roles, we have the experience, network and ability to help you.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Act as signing partner on non-audit assurance engagements, taking sign-off responsibility for reports issued under the International Standards on Assurance Engagements.
  • Lead assurance work including agreed-upon procedures, reviews, controls assurance and other attestation engagements over IFRS-based information.
  • Advise clients operating within the ADGM and DIFC regimes, as well as onshore UAE entities, on their assurance and reporting requirements.
  • Originate new mandates and grow the practice through referral networks, intermediaries and client expansion.
  • Provide technical leadership to managers and senior staff, reviewing difficult deliverables and resolving contentious matters.
  • Support clients on reporting obligations connected to the UAE Federal Tax Authority regime, including VAT and the 9% Corporate Tax.
  • Oversee independence, ethics and quality management compliance across the portfolio.
  • Coordinate with audit and tax colleagues while preserving the independence of any statutory audit relationship.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

  • Chartered Accountant, ACA with the ICAEW, or ACCA-qualified, in good standing; equivalent recognised qualifications considered.
  • Substantial post-qualification experience in assurance, with partner-level or equivalent engagement leadership.
  • Demonstrable sign-off or de facto signing experience on assurance or attestation engagements.
  • Strong working knowledge of IFRS and the International Standards on Assurance Engagements.
  • Practical familiarity with the ADGM and DIFC regulatory and reporting frameworks.
  • Understanding of the UAE Federal Tax Authority regime, including VAT and the 9% Corporate Tax, and the relevant SCA expectations for regulated entities.
  • Strong grasp of independence, ethics and quality management requirements for assurance providers.
  • Evidence of building and retaining client relationships and of winning new assurance work.
  • Sound commercial judgement on engagement risk, pricing and resourcing.
  • Excellent written and spoken English; Arabic is an advantage.

Preferred Experience:

  • Experience within a firm operating across both free-zone and onshore UAE clients.
  • Exposure to financial services, real estate, trading or family-office structures in the Gulf.
  • Familiarity with cross-border group reporting into UAE holding structures.
  • Experience supporting transactions and fundraising from an assurance standpoint.
  • An established referral network among lawyers, bankers and corporate advisers in the UAE.
  • Track record of building and developing an assurance team.

Compensation:

Competitive package commensurate with seniority and experience, including base, performance-based bonus, long-term incentives and (where applicable) partner-track participation.

Next Steps:

This opportunity is open to candidates holding or eligible for the relevant UAE residence and work permit who match the above criteria. Please apply to receive prompt contact from an experienced and specialist accounting-firm recruitment consultant.

Chartered Partners is a trading style of Feltan Associates Pte Ltd; an international Executive Search, Recruitment and Consulting business based in Singapore, licensed and regulated by the Singapore Ministry of Manpower to conduct recruitment services for clients. UEN: 202225620G. EA Licence 23S1672. All rights reserved.

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