Senior Internal Controls & Compliance Manager

Miral Experiences; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Miral Experiences in Abu Dhabi seeks an Internal Compliance Manager to lead critical reviews, control testing, and assurance activities across Procurement, Finance, HR, and Administration, ensuring alignment with strong governance and risk management.

You will partner with senior leaders to remediate issues, strengthen control frameworks, and drive compliance culture across our global operations, while maintaining confidentiality and objectivity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk Management, Internal Audit, or related field.
• 7–10 years of hands-on experience in compliance assurance, forensic reviews, governance testing, or internal audit focusing on finance, procurement, HR, and shared services domains.
• Proven mastery of risk-based audit approaches, including control validation, evidence collection, compliance walkthroughs, sample testing, and management reporting with demonstrable impact.
• Deep expertise in assessing and remediating procurement irregularities, financial control deficiencies, HR process compliance failures, and policy breach scenarios.
• Exceptional capability in stakeholder influence—particularly challenging executives, control owners, and business partners across complex global environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead Compliance Reviews and Control Testing: Design and execute comprehensive control review projects across Procurement, Finance, HR, and shared services to evaluate policy adherence, delegation effectiveness, and control robustness.
• Procurement Process Review: Critically assess vendor lifecycle processes, sourcing legitimacy, purchase order validation, contract compliance, approval hierarchies, segregation of duties, and conflict‑of‑interest mitigation standards.
• Finance‑Related Controls Assessment: Conduct forensic‑style reviews of financial delegations, payment verifications, revenue processes, expense integrity, reconciliations, petty cash protocols, and payment approval chains.
• HR Compliance Reviews: Evaluate end‑to‑end HR governance—from recruitment documentation and payroll inputs to termination processes, leave tracking, training compliance, and access right management.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as a trusted advisor to cross‑functional leadership to uncover hidden risks, articulate control deficiencies, and collaboratively implement corrective actions across Miral’s global operations.
• Compliance Breach Identification: Systematically detect, categorize, and elevate incidents involving policy deviations, procedural non‑compliance, fraud indicators, and recurring system vulnerabilities through risk assessment.
• Action Tracker Management: Oversee end‑to‑end action plan execution, verifying remediation, escalating closure risks where necessary.
• Reporting and Updates: Create executive‑ready dashboards, risk snapshots, and management reports with data‑driven insights.
• Investigations and Special Reviews: Facilitate investigations to determine root causes and preventive measures in procurement, finance, HR, or compliance domains.
• Guidance and Support: Provide consultative support to business units on compliance thresholds, documentation standards, and audit readiness.
• Framework Enhancement: Lead continuous improvement of the Internal Compliance Framework with testing protocols and monitoring routines.
• Team Management: Mentor Internal Compliance Associates in audit skills and quality assurance to deliver high‑impact reviews.

Skills

Risk-based audit

Stakeholder influence

Root cause analysis

Governance testing

Control validation

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

CIA/CPA/ACCA/CFE/CISA/CRMA

Tools

Power BI

Excel advanced

Forensic software

ERP systems

Job description

Miral Experiences in Abu Dhabi seeks an Internal Compliance Manager to lead critical reviews, control testing, and assurance activities across Procurement, Finance, HR, and Administration, ensuring alignment with strong governance and risk management.

You will partner with senior leaders to remediate issues, strengthen control frameworks, and drive compliance culture across our global operations, while maintaining confidentiality and objectivity.