Senior Internal Auditor📣 إعلان

About the Senior Internal Auditor Role

El Seif Operation and Maintenance is seeking a highly capable and analytical Senior Internal Auditor to join its Internal Audit Department in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position requires 2-5 years of relevant experience and focuses on risk-based and operational auditing within a complex, project-driven business environment.

Role Context and Objectives

The Senior Internal Auditor will independently assess business risks, evaluate internal controls, identify process and control gaps, and analyze operational and financial data. A key objective is to provide practical recommendations that add measurable value to the business. This role demands strong professional judgment, independence, a solid understanding of business operations, and the ability to manage stakeholders effectively across various functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute end-to-end risk-based internal audit engagements, including planning, risk assessment, fieldwork, reporting, and follow-up.
• Conduct operational, financial, compliance, and process audits, with an emphasis on operational and business risks.
• Perform risk assessments to identify key risks, control weaknesses, process gaps, and areas requiring management attention.
• Evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls, governance, and risk management processes.
• Review key business functions such as Operations, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Procurement, Finance, Projects, Contracts, and HR.
• Develop risk-based audit programs, testing procedures, sampling methodologies, and audit working papers.
• Utilize data analysis and analytical review techniques to identify trends, anomalies, exceptions, and emerging risks.
• Perform process walkthroughs, controls testing, document reviews, and stakeholder interviews to obtain audit evidence.
• Conduct root-cause analysis of identified issues.
• Translate audit findings into clear, practical, and value-adding recommendations.
• Prepare high-quality audit reports with clear observations, risk implications, root causes, and actionable recommendations.
• Present and discuss audit findings professionally with process owners and management.
• Support enterprise and departmental risk assessments and contribute to the Annual Internal Audit Plan.
• Monitor management action plans and perform follow-up reviews to verify remediation of audit findings.
• Provide advisory input on internal controls, risk management, governance, and process improvement while maintaining Internal Audit independence.
• Maintain complete, accurate, and high-quality audit documentation.
• Support and guide junior Internal Audit team members when required.
• Maintain strict confidentiality, professional skepticism, objectivity, independence, and integrity.
• Travel to company projects and operational sites across Saudi Arabia as required.
• Support critical audit assignments outside normal working hours when reasonably required.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate possesses an understanding of business operations, risk origins, control responses, and the application of data to identify issues. This role requires comfort in reviewing complex operational environments, professionally challenging existing processes, engaging with stakeholders across functions, and converting audit observations into practical recommendations that enhance controls, governance, efficiency, and business performance.

Required Experience and Qualifications

Candidates should have 4 years of experience, particularly within Operations & Maintenance (O&M), Facility Management, Contracting, Construction, Engineering, Infrastructure, EPC, Projects, or other large and mature organizations with complex operations. Candidates from listed companies, major groups, large/mature organizations, or recognized consulting and advisory firms are also considered, provided they demonstrate solid operational audit, risk assessment, analytical, and advisory capabilities.

Working at El Seif Operation and Maintenance

• Exposure to a large and technically diverse operational environment.
• Opportunity to audit and understand multiple business functions, projects, and operational activities.
• Direct exposure to management and important governance and risk matters.
• Opportunity to develop deeper expertise in operational auditing, risk assessment, analytics, governance, and advisory work.
• Access to professional audit methodologies, systems, and analytical tools.
• Potential support for relevant professional certifications, subject to company policy.
• Career-development opportunities based on performance, capability, and organizational requirements.
• A professional Internal Audit environment focused on integrity, independence, objectivity, analytical thinking, and continuous improvement.