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About Qiddiya and the Director - Delivery Audit Role

Qiddiya is seeking a Director - Delivery Audit to lead its delivery audit function in Riyadh, Riyadh Province. This full-time role provides independent, strategic assurance over the organization’s capital delivery portfolio, ensuring adherence to the Global Internal Audit Standards (2024). The position is critical for maintaining robust controls across significant projects and programmes.

Strategic Oversight of Capital Delivery

The Director owns the delivery audit strategy and sets the risk-based delivery audit plan. This role directs multiple management layers and concurrent engagements, serving as the senior point of assurance to executive management and the Audit Committee. The scope covers controls governing project delivery, cost and change management, contractor and consultant performance, and programme and portfolio governance across construction, infrastructure, engineering, consultancy services, procurement, and facilities management.

Core Duties and Accountabilities

• Define and own the delivery audit strategy, ensuring alignment with the organization’s capital delivery objectives and enterprise risk profile.
• Direct the development and execution of the risk-based delivery audit plan across the capital portfolio, ensuring adequate coverage of major projects and programmes.
• Provide executive-level assurance and reporting to senior management and the Audit Committee on delivery, cost, contractor performance, and programme governance risks.
• Oversee multiple concurrent engagements and management layers, ensuring quality, consistency, and timeliness across the delivery audit portfolio.
• Lead the most complex and high-value engagements, including major construction contracts, claims, and programme-level governance reviews.

Team Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement

• Manage the delivery audit budget, resourcing, and capability planning, including specialist and co-sourced resources.
• Build and sustain trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, programme leadership, and external assurance providers to promote risk awareness and control accountability.
• Lead, develop, and performance-manage Associate Directors, Senior Managers, and Managers, building a high-performing delivery audit team and succession pipeline.

Methodology and Innovation

• Set and maintain the delivery audit methodology, frameworks, and quality assurance standards, ensuring conformance with the Global Internal Audit Standards (2024).
• Champion integrated assurance with governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) and external auditors to optimize coverage and minimize duplication.
• Drive innovation in delivery audit, including data analytics, continuous auditing, and emerging-risk coverage.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s/advanced degree preferred.