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Key areas of focus include:

Corporate governance and/or Internal audit/Internal controls over financial reporting

Role:

• As an Advisory Senior, you will make a significant technical contribution to client engagements and internal projects.
• Within your role, you will actively establish, maintain, and strengthen internal and external relationships. With a clear focus on anticipating and identifying risks, compliance, and governance issues, you will escalate issues as appropriate to the Manager/Director.
• Working closely with colleagues, you will confirm whether the work plan is properly executed, documented, and concluded in compliance with KPMG\'s guidelines.
• Working effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress
• Developing and maintaining productive working relationships with client personnel
• Building strong internal relationships within KPMG and with other services across the organization
• Contribute to performance feedback for staff
• Other cognate duties
• Superior analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills

Internal Audit

• Perform risk assessments by analyzing current risks and identifying potential risks that are affecting the company
• Conduct process understanding session with client to gain knowledge of on ground practices, policies and procedure implemented to identify the design gaps, associated risks
• Develop internal audit program containing detailed testing strategies to validate the efficacy implemented controls
• Lead client discussions/presentations for gaps identified along with root causes and provide agile solutions mitigating the risks
• Skill set to develop policies and procedures from scratch highlighting balanced control environment mitigating business risks
• Acumen to identify business deficiencies and recommending value adding solution driving.
• Writing detailed audit reports effectively communicating the gaps, risks, and recommendations
• Helping prepare reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties

Role: Corporate Governance

• Advise on effective corporate governance structure including roles and responsibilities of the CEO, Board Committee etc.
• Assist in development of Delegation of Authority at corporate level based on the constitutional documents such as Articles of Association, Shareholder Agreement, BOD committee terms of reference, etc.
• Advise on matters to be delegated to the CEO and reserved for BOD/Shareholder matters.
• Assist in drafting terms of reference for BOD Committees, etc.
• Advise on the type of BOD committees to be developed i.e., advisory/decision making
• Ensure full compliance with relevant legislation and regulation pertaining to the corporate governance of the entity
• Assist in managing the preparation and publication of the Annual Corporate Governance Statement, Reports and Accounts, and other annual reports as required. This also includes monitoring and disclosure of Third-Party transactions.
• Assist in the implementation of the governance framework.
• Regular review and maintenance of the Corporate Governance policy.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor\'s or master\'s degree in Finance, Business or other related field
• Industry related certification (e.g., ACCA, ICAEW, CIA, CRMA, ICSA, ACAMS)
• 4-5 years professional experience in the internal auditing preferably within Big4 and/or leading companies
• Proficiency with MS Office
• Knowledge in data analytics would be an advantage
• Demonstrated integrity, values, principles, and work ethic
• Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills
• Must possess flawless communication skills in English. Arabic will be a big plus

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