PwC Risk Internal Audit -Senior Associate - Riyadh
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About the Role
PwC Middle East is hiring a Senior Associate for its Risk Internal Audit practice in Riyadh. The role involves leading internal audit engagements, assessing internal controls, and advising clients on risk management.
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Responsibilities
- Leverage skills and experience to become a trusted advisor to clients on risk and internal controls
- Engage with diverse teams from planning through completion of audit, following up on progress to meet timeline and KPIs
- Work with clients to improve internal control maturity and mitigate risks by developing audit and risk management strategies
- Identify key risks, define audit methodology, and process improvement by understanding client objectives, risks, control frameworks, systems, and regulatory environments
- Build and maintain meaningful relationships with clients, and participate in researching and identifying opportunities on new/existing clients
- Manage engagement budget and economics
- Manage teams and communication with clients/stakeholders
- Provide on ground support for planning, implementation and administration of clients’ Internal Audit Plan
- Work on Internal Audit engagements focusing on compliance, financial and operational related audits
- Conduct testing to evaluate adequacy of design and operating effectiveness of internal controls
- Draft audit findings, related impact, potential risks, and recommendations
- Innovate and help further develop service offerings related to internal audit, risk and controls
Requirements
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk Management, Governance, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline
- Completed or pursuing a professional qualification such as CIA, CPA, CRMA, CFE, CGRCP, PMP, or CMA is a plus
- Progressive experience at Senior Associate level or at least 3 6 years working in internal audit preferably in a Big 4 firm
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Strong report writing and analytical skills
- Bilingual proficiency in Arabic and English (oral and written)
- Project management skills and ability to lead engagements from end to end
- Ability and willingness to travel frequently within the Middle East and worldwide
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Risk Consulting Overview
- Risk Consulting practice helps organizations review and strengthen every aspect of their business, from people to performance, systems to strategy, and business planning to business resilience.
- Services include Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk Management, Policies and Procedures, Governance, Internal Control over Financial Reporting, Process Intelligence, Compliance, and Technology Risk.
Job Duties
- Leverage skills and experience to become a trusted advisor to clients on risk and internal controls.
- Engage and deal with diverse teams from planning through completion phase of audit, closely following up on progress.
- Work with clients to improve internal control maturity and mitigate risks by developing internal audit and risk management strategies.
- Identify key risks, define audit methodology, and process improvement by understanding client objectives, risks, control frameworks, systems and regulatory environments.
- Build and maintain meaningful relationships with clients, and take part in researching and identifying opportunities on new/existing client.
- Develop internal and external relationships reflecting PwC values.
- Manage the engagement budget and economics.
- Manage teams and communication with clients/stakeholders.
- Provide on ground support for planning, implementation and administration of clients’ Internal Audit Plan.
- Work on Internal Audit engagements focusing on compliance, financial and operational related audits.
- Conduct testing to evaluate adequacy of design and operating effectiveness of internal controls.
- Draft audit findings, related impact, potential risks, and recommendations.
What will you bring?
- A degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk Management, Governance, Industrial Engineer, or any related discipline.
- Completed or pursuing a professional qualification, such as CIA, CPA, CRMA, CFE, CGRCP, PMP, or CMA is a plus.
- Progressive experience at the Senior Associate level or at least 3 6 years working in internal audit preferably in one of the big 4 professional services firm.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong report writing, and analytical skills.
- Bilingual proficiency in Arabic and English (oral and written).
- Business development and client relationship building skills.
- Willingness to challenge the ‘norms’ and to create a cohesive and effective working team.
- Demonstrating strong technical knowledge and ability to research issues, present alternatives and conclusions.
- Background in governance, risk management, and compliance.
- Experienced in assessment and testing of design and effectiveness of business controls.
- Project management skills and ability to lead engagements from end to end.
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