PwC Risk Internal Audit -Senior Associate - Riyadh
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About the Role
PwC Middle East seeks a Senior Associate for Risk Consulting in Riyadh, focusing on internal audit, risk management, and internal controls. The role involves leading audit engagements, building client relationships, and improving control maturity.
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Responsibilities
- 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 of audit, ensuring timeline and KPI adherence
- 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 client relationships, research and identify opportunities on new/existing clients
- Develop internal and external relationships, reflecting PwC values in daily work
- Manage engagement budget and economics
- Manage teams and communication with clients/stakeholders
- Help clients navigate evolving risk landscape by developing and executing test plans, identifying control effectiveness and improvements
- 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 audits
- Conduct testing to evaluate adequacy of design and operating effectiveness of internal controls
Requirements
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk Management, Governance, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline
- Completed or pursuing professional qualification such as CIA, CPA, CRMA, CFE, CGRCP, PMP, or CMA
- 3 6 years of experience in internal audit, preferably in a 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 norms and create cohesive working teams
- Strong technical knowledge and ability to research issues
- Background in governance, risk management, and compliance
- Experience in assessment and testing of design and effectiveness of business controls
- Project management skills and ability to lead engagements end to end
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Overview
- A career within Risk Consulting services will provide you with the opportunity to gain an understanding of an organisation’s objectives, regulatory and risk management environment, and the diverse needs of their critical stakeholders.
- Our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. Therefore, our Risk Consulting practice focuses on helping organisations review and strengthen every aspect of their business, from people to performance, systems to strategy, and business planning to business resilience.
- Our Risk Consulting practice provides a wide range of services and business advice that is not limited to Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk Management, Policies and Procedures, Governance, Internal Control over Financial Reporting, Process Intelligence, Compliance as well as Technology Risk.
Job Duties
- Leveraging on your skills and experience to become a trusted advisor to your clients on topics of risk & internal controls
- Engaging and dealing with diverse teams from the planning through the completion phase of the audit as well as closely following up on the progress of the requested tasks to ensure meeting the timeline and the firm’s internal KPI’s.
- Working with clients to improve their internal control maturity and to help them in mitigating the risks they face by developing internal audit and risk management strategies to strengthen their existing controls and processes
- Identifying key risks, defining the audit methodology, and process improvement by understanding the client’s objectives, risks, control frameworks, systems and regulatory environments
- Building and maintaining meaningful relationships with clients, and taking part in researching and identifying opportunities on new/existing client
- Developing internal and external relationships and reflecting PwC values on your day to day work when working in diverse teams
- Managing the engagement budget and economics
- Managing teams and the communication with the clients/stakeholders; Helping clients navigate an evolving risk landscape by developing and executing test plans, identifying control effectiveness and improvements and reporting these to clients in an impactful way
- Providing on ground support for the planning, implementation and administration of the clients’ Internal Audit Plan
- Working on Internal Audit engagements focusing on compliance, financial and operational related audits
- Conducting testing to evaluate the adequacy of the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls
- Drafting the audit findings, the 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 that allow you to thrive in a team environment.
- Having 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 having the ability to research issues, present alternatives and conclusions to client/Manager.
- having a background in governance, risk management, and compliance. an up to date understanding of issues facing businesses and how to influence client conversations.
- Experienced in assessment and testing of design and effectiveness of business controls.
- Project management skills and ability to lead engagements from end to end and working directly with the partner and manager on the account.
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