Title: Financial Quality Assurance Senior Manager
Department: Financial Quality Assurance
Location: Riyadh
Core Responsibilities:
- Design and implement a standardized Financial Reporting Quality Assurance Framework.
- Define and maintain testing methodologies, control checklists, and validation templates to assess report accuracy and completeness.
- Develop procedures for identifying, escalating, and remediating errors and control weaknesses prior to submission.
- Ensure QA reviews are properly documented, traceable, and compliant with audit and financial standards.
- Development, own, and monitor a comprehensive set of clear and concise policies that outline the key principles and minimum requirements applicable to the management of risk.
- Cover full lifecycle assurance: origination, processing, accounting, reporting, and disclosures.
- Report on the risk and control profile, including impacts of external environment changes, emerging risks and changes to the business strategy.
- Work with the businesses and functions to understand the impact of emerging risks that require changes to controls, resources and business operations to ensure they remain within appetite.
- Conduct regular and thematic QA reviews on all key financial reporting processes.
- Perform end-to-end walkthroughs and testing, from customer transaction, through systems, interfaces, and accounting entries to final GL posting and financial statements.
- Test the operational effectiveness of key reporting controls and recommend remediation actions.
- Track and follow up on corrective actions to ensure sustainable improvements.
- Identify systemic weaknesses across financial processes and drive standardization.
- Partner with Financial Reporting, business and supporting functions to embed the QA process into the overall reporting cycle.
- Operate as a true second line of defense, independent from control owners, and establish clear ownership and accountability framework.
- Challenge management where control design or execution is insufficient.
- Drive governance forums and reporting to CFO & Audit Committee.
- Coordinate with the Data Management Office to ensure compliance with the bank's data governance policies.
- Build and manage a high-performing Quality Assurance team, ensuring clear objectives, training, and performance standards.
- Promote a culture of accountability, control excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Lead by example in embedding the bank's values and governance principles.
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk Management, or related field.
- Prior Audit or Control experience, ideally within the Big 4 Chartered Accountant.
- Strong understanding of IFRS requirements.
- Proven experience in control assurance, audit, or quality review roles.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to lead changes and implement new frameworks across multiple business areas.
