Specialist - Internal Audit
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About the Role
Dubai Health seeks an experienced Internal Audit Specialist to lead complex assurance and advisory engagements in healthcare settings. The role involves risk assessment, audit strategy, mentoring staff, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
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Responsibilities
- Lead complex assurance and advisory engagements focusing on healthcare specific risks and regulatory compliance.
- Collaborate with Section Head and Director to conduct enterprise wide risk assessments and develop risk based audit strategies.
- Oversee audit fieldwork execution, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and quality standards.
- Design and refine internal audit policies, procedures, and methodologies, incorporating innovative tools like AI driven analytics.
- Analyze audit findings and KPIs to identify systemic risks and recommend enhancements to governance structures.
- Develop and deliver training programs on compliance standards and healthcare audit best practices.
- Coordinate with external auditors, regulatory bodies, and senior leadership to address audit findings.
- Evaluate and test controls through data collection and analysis to assess risk exposure.
- Present findings and strategic insights to senior management to influence decision making.
- Coach and mentor Internal Audit staff on best practices and strategic thinking.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field
- Chartered Accountant / CPA / CIA certification
- 8+ years of auditing, risk management, or equivalent experience
- 2 3 years of healthcare sector experience
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Job Purpose
- Lead complex assurance and advisory engagements at Dubai Health, emphasizing healthcare specific risks, regulatory compliance and strategic risk management. Provide expert insights to shape departmental audit planning and strategy, including annual risk assessments and innovative methodologies. Ment
Roles & Responsibilities
- Lead and manage high complexity assurance and advisory assignments, delivering expert risk insights to inform and refine the department’s annual assurance planning and strategic priorities.
- Collaborate with the Section Head and Director to conduct enterprise wide risk assessments, develop risk based audit strategies, and prioritize audit coverage.
- Independently oversee audit fieldwork execution, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, quality standards and timely delivery while mentoring team members on advanced techniques.
- Design, implement and continuously refine internal audit policies, procedures and methodologies, incorporating innovative tools like AI driven analytics to support long term audit function strategy and resource optimization.
- Analyze audit findings, trends and key performance indicators to identify systemic risks, recommend enhancements to clinical documentation, risk mitigation frameworks and overall governance structures.
- Develop and deliver targeted training programs for audit staff, cross functional teams and stakeholders on compliance standards, healthcare audit best practices and strategic risk management.
- Coordinate with external auditors, regulatory bodies and senior leadership to address audit findings, influence policy changes and contribute to organizational compliance strategies.
- Evaluate and test controls through data collection, validation and analysis to assess risk exposure and control effectiveness, identifying opportunities for business process improvements.
- Determine and apply optimal audit approaches, techniques and procedures to form objective opinions on control environments and strategic alignment.
- Present comprehensive findings, recommendations and strategic insights to senior management, influencing decision making and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Partner with business, IT and clinical stakeholders to co develop practical, sustainable actions that mitigate identified risks and align with Dubai Health’s strategic goals.
- Draft detailed audit reports, track management responses and verify implementation of agreed actions to ensure accountability and strategic outcomes.
Qualification Requirements
- Bachelor Accounting or a related field
- Certification Chartered Accountant / CPA / CIA (Exception for UAE national)
Years of Experience
- 8 (Exception for UAE National) Auditing / risk management or equivalent exposure in jobs involving process reviews and reviews of management information in Finance / other departments
- 2 3 (Exception for UAE National) Healthcare sector
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