Internal Auditor

Role overview

Audit and asset verification

• Audit hospitality, real estate, construction, retail, and mall operations.
• Review financial, operational, procurement, payroll, inventory, revenue, cash-handling, and administrative processes.
• Audit and physically verify fixed assets, including equipment, furniture, vehicles, tools, machinery, IT assets, and other Group property.
• Reconcile physical assets against fixed asset registers and supporting records.
• Identify missing, damaged, obsolete, idle, or improperly recorded assets and recommend corrective action.
• Review asset acquisition, transfers, disposals, write-offs, tagging, capitalization, and depreciation procedures.
• Conduct periodic asset counts and physical verification across hotels, construction sites, retail outlets, malls, offices, and other properties.

Controls, reporting, and follow-up

• Assess internal controls and identify control gaps and business risks.
• Verify compliance with Group policies, procedures, budgets, contracts, approval authorities, and applicable regulations.
• Review supporting documents, transactions, approvals, reconciliations, and financial records; conduct stock, cash, revenue, payroll, inventory, and asset audits as needed.
• Identify irregularities, process weaknesses, potential fraud risks, and financial or operational exposure.
• Prepare audit reports with findings, risk implications, recommendations, and agreed corrective actions; monitor implementation.
• Work with Finance, HR, Procurement, Engineering, Operations, IT, and other departments.
• Support special investigations, management reviews, fraud-risk assessments, and ad hoc audits; maintain working papers, evidence, and verification records.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Internal Audit, or a related field.
• At least 3–5 years of internal audit experience.
• Strong knowledge of internal controls, risk management, financial processes, fixed asset management, inventory controls, and audit methodologies.
• Strong analytical, investigative, reporting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work independently and objectively.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial or accounting systems.

Preferred qualifications and experience

• CIA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent professional certification is an advantage.
• Experience in a diversified Group or holding company is preferred.
• Experience auditing hospitality, construction, real estate, retail, malls, or other asset-intensive businesses is highly preferred.
• The preferred profile includes multi-industry audit experience, particularly with fixed assets, physical verification, inventory, financial controls, and operational audits.

Compensation

• Pay is AED 10,000–15,000 per month; the posting also describes the salary as competitive based on experience and qualifications.

Work location

• Work location is in person; audits include field work across hotels, construction sites, retail outlets, malls, and real estate properties.