Job description

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United A”rab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organisation to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.

Overview of the role:

To lead the internal audit function across multiple business sectors, ensuring strategic alignment with enterprise risk management, regulatory compliance, and governance objectives. The role provides assurance to executive leadership and the Audit Committee

What you will do:

• Develop and execute the group-wide internal audit strategy and annual audit plan. Assist the Audit Manager in the development of annual audit plan by assessing the degree of risk.
• Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, and Finance to align assurance activities.
• Drive adoption of data analytics, automation, and continuous auditing practices
• Lead high-impact audits, fraud investigations, and special reviews.
• Present findings and risk insights to department owners and division heads.
• Oversee audit team performance, resource allocation, and professional development.
• Review and approve the audit programs that accompany each audit assignment before commencement of the audit.
• In some cases, conduct internal audit assignment for evaluation of adequacy and effectiveness of the system of internal control and quality of performance.
• Documentation of audit work in Audit Management system which can fully support the audit findings.
• Prepare professional audit reports which should clearly communicate findings, analysis, appraisals, recommendations and information concerning the activities audited.
• Discuss preliminary audit findings with the concerned staff/ management to highlight the observations to management and to get their concurrences.
• Prepare and validate the executive summary for each engagement along with the detailed report and audit follow-up form.
• Assist in the preparation of monthly summary report to be presented to Group Director after it has been reviewed by department Head.
• Ability to extend audit coverage to a wider and more representative population using computer-based audit techniques. E.g. use of ACL.
• Achieve high professional standards of audit performance, reports and recommendations in conformity with International Standards of Internal Audit and within the Group’s policy, procedures and long-range goals.
• Such consulting assignments are performed based on management requests in order to establish a fact or to evaluate a specific situation.
• Fraud investigation should be conducted to identify the loss/exposure, control weaknesses, personnel responsible and recommendation to prevent reoccurrence.

Required Skills to be successful:

• Minimum experience of 10 years in internal audit experience, with the exposure of managing a team.

What equips you for the role:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or Business.
• CIA, CPA, or equivalent certification is an asset. with knowledge of internal audit function.

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