Functional Audit Senior Manager📣 إعلان

About the Role

Dammam Airports is seeking a Functional Audit Senior Manager to oversee comprehensive evaluations of critical functions within the organization. This full-time position is based in Dammam, Eastern Province, and requires 5-10 years of experience. The role involves leading a team of audit professionals to conduct in-depth audits across various functional areas.

Strategic Leadership and Planning

The Functional Audit Senior Manager will develop and implement a risk-based audit strategy focused on critical functional areas, ensuring thorough coverage of high-risk domains such as financial reporting, compliance, and internal controls. This includes creating a dynamic audit plan that addresses complex areas like financial controls, procurement fraud, IT security, and legal compliance. The role requires close collaboration with executive leadership to align the audit strategy with corporate priorities and provide assurance on key business initiatives and strategic projects. Proactive identification of emerging risks through advanced audit techniques, including predictive analytics and data-driven risk assessments, is essential to prepare the organization for evolving risk environments.

Operational Audit Execution

This position directs the execution of high-impact, complex audits addressing significant financial, legal, and regulatory risks across functional areas. Responsibilities include developing and refining audit methodologies for robust internal control testing, particularly in financial reporting, legal and regulatory compliance, procurement, and IT systems. The role involves leading the adoption of advanced audit technologies, such as automated data analytics and continuous control monitoring, to enhance efficiency and identify systemic risks. The Senior Manager is responsible for developing detailed, high-quality audit reports with actionable solutions and managing the follow-up and implementation of audit recommendations to ensure timely corrective actions and strengthened internal controls.

Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration

Cultivating strong relationships with senior leadership, department heads, and external stakeholders is a key aspect of this role, serving as a trusted advisor on audit findings, regulatory compliance, and operational effectiveness. The Senior Manager will engage in discussions with external auditors to ensure functional audits meet external requirements and identify synergies. Collaboration with key stakeholders is crucial for implementing audit recommendations, driving operational changes, reducing risk exposure, and improving compliance and process efficiency. Building and sustaining a culture of transparency and accountability is also a core responsibility.

Compliance, Quality Assurance, and Team Leadership

Ensuring all audits align with IPPF Standards issued by the IIA and regulatory requirements is paramount. The role includes conducting internal quality assessments of the functional audit process to ensure consistency and thoroughness. Maintaining the independence and objectivity of the functional audit unit, free from conflicts of interest, is critical. The Senior Manager will lead a professional audit team, ensuring they possess the necessary technical skills and certifications. A comprehensive talent development strategy will be implemented to ensure continuous training in advanced auditing methodologies, fostering a high-performance culture that encourages innovation and continuous improvement of audit processes.

Financial Management and Innovation

Under the direction of the Head of Internal Audit, the Senior Manager will participate in the preparation of the functional audit unit’s budget, ensuring efficient resource allocation based on risk-based prioritization. Monitoring resource allocation to ensure high-risk operational areas are sufficiently resourced for thorough audit execution is also required. The role involves leading the integration of advanced technologies, such as data analytics, into the audit process to enhance depth and efficiency. Continuous review and improvement of audit methodologies to reflect the latest trends and best practices in Finance & Accounting Standards, IT, and HR regulations are expected. The functional audit unit must remain agile and adaptive to changes in operational risk profiles, safety regulations, and industry standards.