Senior Manager / Associate Director - Forensic Investigations (Saudi National)

Location: Riyadh, KSA

Experience: 7–12 years in forensic investigations

Role purpose

Lead complex forensic and financial crime investigations across the Kingdom and the wider GCC. Own engagements end to end, front-end relationships with clients, boards, audit committees and regulators, and build the bilingual investigative team beneath you.

Key responsibilities

• Lead marquee investigations from scoping through to findings, remediation recommendations and reporting.
• Act as the primary point of contact for clients, boards, audit committees and regulatory bodies; present findings and defend methodology under scrutiny.
• Direct the full investigation lifecycle: planning, evidence preservation, data collection, ESI review, analysis, interviews, documentation and closure.
• Oversee data analytics, e-discovery and document review workstreams, setting review protocols and quality standards.
• Manage, develop and grow a bilingual investigations team; allocate resources across concurrent engagements.
• Manage engagement economics, risk and delivery quality.

Qualifications and certifications

• Chartered Accountant, professional financial accounting qualification, MBA (Finance) or a relevant postgraduate degree.
• Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) required.

Experience and technical skills

• Demonstrable track record leading high-profile investigations in the region.
• Direct experience front-ending client, board, audit committee and regulator conversations.
• Command of the end-to-end investigation lifecycle.
• Hands-on capability in data analytics and Excel at minimum; e-discovery / ESI review and document review.

Languages

• Fluent English and Arabic.

Preferred

• Prior working exposure to CMA, SAMA or Nazaha engagements.