About Deloitte

Deloitte provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. With a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries, Deloitte brings world-class capabilities and high-quality service to clients, delivering the insights they need to address their most complex business challenges. Deloitte has approximately 456,800 professionals all committed to becoming the standard of excellence of professional services firms.

Deloitte’s professionals are dedicated to strengthening corporate responsibility, building public trust, and making a positive impact in their communities, and enjoy an environment of continuous learning, challenging experiences, and enriching career opportunities. All our professionals are united by our shared values, a set of core principles that guide our collective behaviour. They set the expectations we have for one another and define how we, as stewards of Deloitte, should behave. They provide common ground to unite us across cultures and geographies. And, importantly, they help us to earn the trust and respect of our key stakeholders. Our shared values are: Lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact.

Deloitte East Africa provides seamless cross-border services to multinationals, large national enterprises, small and medium sized enterprises and the public sector; with offices in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, and in the process of expanding our operations by re-opening an office in Ethiopia.

A career with Deloitte offers you the opportunity to engage with and work alongside leading corporations within the East African region, and an opportunity to grow your career within a dynamic and rewarding environment. You will get the support, coaching and training needed to advance your career in Uganda and within the East Africa market.

What impact will you make?

At Deloitte we have a clear purpose, to make an impact that matters to our clients, our colleagues and our communities. From professional development to leadership opportunities and career advancement, we empower our people to be their very best - because that’s how you make an impact.

About the Department

Deloitte’s Audit service offering utilizes a comprehensive methodology designed to bring our extensive professional and technical resources to audit engagements in an efficient, and cost-effective manner. In our audit process, we combine a rigorous risk and needs analysis, diagnostic processes, and a client service assessment structured to provide our clients with a superior audit clearly focused on them.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual to join our Audit team as a Project Manager. This position will be based in our Kampala office in Uganda.

Click here to read more about our Audit & Assurance practice. 

Main purpose of the job

This role will be integral to the audit engagement team; it will be the pivotal role in coordinating audit delivery and as well as sourcing business opportunities for the service lines.

What you will do

Project management

• Coordinate scheduling of meetings, gather actions, allocate deadlines and responsible people, and follow up on the completion of the actions;
• Coordinate team reporting documents and manage reporting requirements for the audits;
• Help to develop a culture of continuous improvement through process re-engineering and change management;
• Manage the successful initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of the audit engagements;
• Generate innovative solutions on projects / engagements in collaboration with team members to enhance / renew service offerings to clients; and
• Flag any risks and issues arising to leaders.

Business development

• Champion business development initiatives;
• Build and maintain executive relationships with clients for the purpose of identifying new business;
• Assist in the preparation of proposals/tenders and presentations on request;
• Identify opportunities for follow-on work and work with management to win the business; and,
• Track leads both internally and externally.

Finance

• Assist with billing process and Work-In-Progress (WIP) management;
• Assist with debtor management and collections;
• Manage engagement budgets through accurate budgeting, cost control and profitability management; and,
• Perform any other duties that may be required from time to time.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university.
• A project management or marketing certification is desired.
• Five (5) years’ Project Management and Business Development experience post qualification.
• Two years experience with a recognized professional services or auditing firm is an added advantage;
• A recognized accounting qualification such CPA/ACCA or equivalent would be an added advantage and
• Be a Ugandan citizen or eligible to work in Uganda.

Key Performance Areas

• Strategic Impact - Supports the Partner/engagement team on delivery of designated engagements/projects, managing the implementation of the agreed deliverables.
• Budgets / Profitability – Monitors the management of the engagement budget through accurate budgeting, cost control and profitability management.
• Stakeholder Focus - Leverages a deep understanding of audit and risk advisory services and stakeholder needs to monitor the delivery of high-quality engagements.
• Tools, guidance and methodology – Monitors delivery of high-quality audits via a number of enablers.
• Project plans - Develops and manages project plans as a critical component to assisting the teams execute high-quality audits.

Behavioral competencies

• Proven ability of delivering initiatives on time, on schedule with the required level of quality.
• Ability to think critically and apply appropriate levels of challenge to plans, risks, issues and dependencies.
• Experience of having effectively managed risks, issues, dependencies in a project environment.
• Excellent time management, communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage changing priorities and competing demands.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing and team playing skills.
• Very driven and proactive.
• Professional, dynamic and positive attitude.
• Good commercial awareness and ability to understand a project's business drivers.
• Excellent organizational skills and a keen eye for detail.

Technical Competencies

• Expert in field with sound industry and business knowledge.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Proven ability to manage and execute projects.
• Experience in developing and presenting client proposals.
• Excellent proposal/ report writing skills.
• Sound business acumen.
• Good negotiation skills.
• Focus on quality and risk.
• Understanding of Agile or other project management techniques.
• SAP skills.
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Understand risk management policies and procedures.

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte we believe in the importance of leadership at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters.

Leadership Capabilities

1. Living our Purpose - Builds own understanding of our purpose and values; explores opportunities for impact.
2. Influence - Actively focuses on developing effective communication and relationship-building skills.
3. Performance drive - Understands expectations and demonstrates personal accountability for keeping performance on track.
4. Strategic direction - Understands how their daily work contributes to the priorities of the team and the business.
5. Talent development - Demonstrates strong commitment to personal learning and development; acts as a brand ambassador to help attract top talent.

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there is always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world.

Deloitte opens the door to a career that can cross borders virtually and physically across the African continent and globally to gain experience and access projects beyond our borders. We value difference, and embrace people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities and thinking styles.

Our purpose

Deloitte is led by a purpose: to make an impact that matters. Every day, Deloitte people are making a real impact in the places they live and work. We pride ourselves on doing not only what is good for clients, but also what is good for our people and the communities in which we live and work—always striving to be an organization that is held up as a role model of quality, integrity, and positive change. Learn more about Deloitte’s impact on the world. #Makinganimpactthatmatters

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If you meet the above requirements, please visit our website and apply online: Deloitte East Africa Careers portal. 

Your details will be treated with confidentiality and will not be shared with any third party.

Closing date:  11 February 2024

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not ask individuals to pay any fees or money as part of the recruitment process. Women and Persons with Disabilities are encouraged to apply.

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.