Internal Audit (Insurance Sector) - Associate Director / Director

Key responsibilities:

Establish, maintain, and expand senior client and partner relationships across insurance, payment and fintech, and capital markets, ensuring client satisfaction scores and securing long-term account retention and growth of YoY.

Oversee delivery of projects delivery ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards, while driving measurable client impact in efficiency and growth.

Manage engagement economics by optimizing billing and receivables, maintaining team utilization rates as per firm standards and delivering margin realization improvements across projects.

Lead execution of high-quality deliverables across multiple engagements, balancing brand integrity, service quality, and client expectations, with projects resulting in repeat or upsell opportunities.

Strengthen firm brand presence by publishing thought-leadership articles, white papers, or industry points-of-view annually.

Contribute to internal intellectual capital by developing reusable frameworks, solution accelerators, or methodologies each year, improving delivery consistency and enabling scalable client impact.

Manage a portfolio of strategic client accounts, building relationships across multiple business units and delivering revenue growth through cross-sell and upsell strategies.

Consistently achieve business development targets by expanding share of wallet in existing accounts and securing new client wins each year.

Demonstrate recognized subject-matter expertise in financial services strategy, regulatory change, digital transformation, or risk, shaping differentiated market offerings and positioning the firm as a thought leader.

Champion cross-functional collaboration by leading multi-disciplinary teams

Deliver end-to-end solutions while ensuring full compliance with commercial and legal requirements.

Solve complex client challenges by applying structured problem-solving and practical insights, delivering tangible outcomes such as operational cost reduction, productivity gains, or revenue uplift.

Building the team and hiring the team members

Maintaining all requirement of Finance, Operations and central team

Reviewing all the work and deliverables of the team members and submission of deliverable as per contract and expectations to the client

Establish, maintain, and strengthen trusted relationships with senior client executives, internal senior stakeholders, and external partners, achieving client satisfaction scores and contributing to growth.

Practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions.

Experience, Skills & Competencies Education:

University degree in business administration, risk management, finance, economics or related field.

Professional certifications such as CA, CFA, CPA, CIA, MBA etc. Skills & Competencies:

Strong knowledge of IA and risk methodologies

Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Minimum Experience:

Minimum 10-12 years of experience in financial services industry with a special focus on Asset Management, Insurance, Banking and Investments.

Working in consultancy set up

Bi-lingual (Arabic Speaker) will be preferable

Strong understanding of industry processes and risk landscape

Solid understanding of corporate governance, regulatory frameworks governing financial markets, risk and controls, SOX, COSO

Knowledge of emerging trends, key technologies, new businesses.

Job Location: Riyadh, KSA