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Internal Audit Manager - Listed Company - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
About Talent at
Talent at is a Saudi platform specialized in executive, professional, and technical talent acquisition and development. We connect exceptional talent with ambitious organizations to accelerate growth and support Vision 2030. Our focus is on enhancing the capabilities of organizations by providing them with the right talent. Located in Saudi Arabia, Talent at is committed to contributing to the nation's vision for a prosperous and sustainable future.
Role Overview
Our confidential client is seeking an Internal Audit Manager in Riyadh to lead and deliver risk-based internal audit engagements across a listed holding company and its subsidiaries. The role is responsible for translating the internal audit plan into disciplined execution across corporate functions, shared services, and portfolio entities, while strengthening governance, internal controls, risk visibility, and remediation follow-through in a public-market environment.
The Internal Audit Manager will report directly to the Internal Audit Director and will play a key role in supporting annual risk assessment activities, supervising audit fieldwork, issuing high-quality reports, and escalating significant issues that may impact the group's control environment, governance expectations, or business integrity.
Key Responsibilities
You will lead internal audit delivery across the group and support consistent audit execution, issue follow-up, and governance reporting across multiple subsidiaries and affiliates.
- Audit Planning & Risk Assessment: Support the annual risk assessment cycle; identify priority audit areas across the group; help convert key risks into a practical, risk-based audit plan aligned with business priorities and governance expectations.
- Audit Execution: Lead end-to-end audit engagements across corporate, operational, financial, compliance, and process areas; develop audit scopes, programs, testing strategies, and walkthrough plans; supervise fieldwork and ensure conclusions are evidence-based.
- Workpaper Review & Quality Control: Review audit documentation for completeness, consistency, and quality; coach auditors where applicable; maintain disciplined execution against internal methodology and timelines.
- Reporting: Draft clear, concise audit reports that communicate observations, root causes, risk impact, and practical recommendations; align findings with management through structured discussion and action planning.
- Issue Tracking & Closure Validation: Monitor agreed actions, validate remediation evidence, and escalate overdue, ineffective, or insufficient closure of significant findings to the Internal Audit Director.
- Governance & Listed Company Control Environment: Review control effectiveness in governance-sensitive areas such as delegated authorities, approval workflows, sensitive information handling, and cross-entity control consistency in a listed-group setting.
- Advisory Reviews: Conduct advisory reviews for new processes, systems, and change initiatives while preserving audit independence and objectivity.
- Data Analytics & Continuous Auditing: Apply data analytics, exception testing, and trend analysis to improve audit coverage, identify anomalies, and strengthen ongoing risk monitoring.
- Stakeholder Management: Build effective working relationships across subsidiaries, corporate functions, and leadership teams while maintaining professional skepticism, confidentiality, and clear escalation discipline.
- Ethics & Confidentiality: Handle all audit matters with integrity, discretion, and strict confidentiality, particularly where commercially or market-sensitive information is involved.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in internal audit, external audit, internal controls, risk management, or governance roles, including experience leading audit assignments.
- Proven exposure to multi-entity, holding-company, conglomerate, or listed-company environments.
- Strong knowledge of governance, risk management, internal controls, and audit execution from planning through reporting and follow-up.
- Strong report-writing, analytical thinking, and stakeholder communication capability.
- Experience supervising fieldwork, reviewing workpapers, and managing issue tracking and remediation validation.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Internal Audit, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Leadership: sound judgment, accountability, calm handling of sensitive matters, and ability to escalate issues appropriately.
Preferred / Nice-to-have
- Experience in a listed company or another publicly listed group environment.
- Exposure to financial, operational, compliance, IT, and governance-related audits.
- Experience supporting Audit Committee or senior governance reporting cycles.
- CIA, CPA, ACCA, CISA, or equivalent professional certification.
- Experience using audit analytics, ERP reporting tools, Power BI, or similar platforms.
Success Metrics
- Annual audit assignments are delivered on time and in line with approved scope and quality expectations.
- Audit reports are clear, practical, and support stronger management accountability and control improvement.
- High-risk findings are tracked effectively, with timely closure or appropriate escalation of unresolved issues.
- Governance-sensitive processes across the group show stronger control discipline and consistency.
- Audit execution quality improves through better documentation, stronger analytics use, and more reliable follow-up.
- Stakeholder confidence in the internal audit function strengthens across group and subsidiary leadership.
- Advisory reviews add value to process design and change initiatives without compromising independence.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Talent at and our confidential client welcome applications from qualified candidates. Hiring decisions are made based on role requirements, skills, and experience.
