Manager, Forensics

EY; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuous learning

Competitive compensation package

Diverse and inclusive culture

Job summary

EY Forensic & Integrity Services is seeking a Manager in Riyadh to lead a team delivering high-value, strategic forensics engagements. You will oversee client relationships, guide complex projects, and provide expert insight on governance, risk, and compliance, with a focus on regulatory and SOX-like controls.

The role requires a decade of related experience within a top-tier consulting environment, with strong leadership and deep regulatory knowledge.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in forensics, audit, risk advisory and compliance in a consulting environment.
• Strong leadership to grow and manage a team across cross-border engagements.
• Deep knowledge of regulators and international standards (FATF, SOX).
• Experience delivering strategic sourcing services for regulatory compliance and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple client engagements at executive level within the Forensics practice.
• Develop and manage a portfolio of high-value projects and proposals.
• Provide subject-matter insights to bids, adapt methods to client context.

Skills

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessment

Internal controls

Job description

Successful organizations depend on their reputation for keeping promises, respecting laws and behaving ethically to maintain stakeholder trust. EY Forensic & Integrity Services professionals help organizations protect and restore enterprise and financial reputation. We assist companies and their legal counsel to investigate facts, resolve disputes and manage regulatory challenges. We put integrity at the heart of compliance programs to help better manage ethical and reputational risks.

Embracing integrity means doing what you say you will do, with unerring commitment. This can make it easier to attract and retain talented people and harness their skills to grow your business. A foundation built on integrity is critical because today's talent values purpose-driven organizations. It can also help you develop stronger partnerships with suppliers and work more effectively with employees, investors, regulators and influencers. Our integrated approach ranges from enhancements in areas of perceived weakness or issues — including governance, controls, culture and data insights — to full organizational design and structural implementation.

The opportunity

As a Manager, you'll build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and develop a portfolio of projects by focusing on high value opportunities. You'll lead presentations and proposals for complex projects or elements of highly complex projects and provide subject matter insight to bids and proposals. Drawing on your skills and experience, you'll create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.

Your Key Responsibilities

As a Manager in the Forensics team, you are required to lead and grow a team and to provide strategic sourcing services related to regulatory compliance, corporate governance, fraud risk assessments, enterprise risk management, internal controls to our clients. You are also required to assist organizations to maintain effective and efficient controls, in order to manage organizational and strategic risks.

You will be responsible for managing multiple client engagement teams at an executive level within the practice and the firm. You can expect to work with high level client personnel to address compliance, financial, and operational risks as well as perform internal control testing, develop internal audit plans, and provide internal audit services on an outsourcing basis. You will assess the client's current state internal controls and SOX framework in order to mitigate risk.

Provide guidance and share knowledge with team members and participate in performing procedures especially focusing on complex, judgmental and/or specialized issues. You are required to work with the team and the client to create plans for accomplishing engagement objectives and a strategy that complies with professional standards and advise clients to understand and manage their business risks and verify the validity of their business information.

Brief the engagement team on the client's IA environment and industry IA trends. Maintain relationships with client management to manage expectations of service, including work products, timing, and deliverables. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of compliance, financial, and operational risks along with performing internal control testing, develop internal audit plans, and provide internal audit services on an outsourcing basis. Assess internal controls and SOX framework in order to mitigate risk and apply it to client situations

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the Forensics domain coupled with a background in internal & external audit, risk advisory and compliance and risk assessment with a consulting firm.
• Broad industry expertise and network, and with an establishes experience with a top tier consulting firm
• Lead a team of professionals to combine diverse cross-border experience with local knowledge across a broad spectrum of industries
• Work effectively as a member of a worldwide network of professional advisors, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress
• Strong understanding of expectations of regulators and international organizations such as FATF.

Ideally, you'll also have

• Working experience in the MENA region
• Prior experience in consulting firm
• Fluent Arabic communication skills

What We Look For

We are interested in entrepreneurs who have the confidence to develop and promote a brand-new strategic vision both internally and externally. You will be business savvy with a passion for innovation as well as the motivation to create your own EY journey.

What We Offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you'll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We'll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

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