Internal Auditor

Role overview

Audit planning and controls

• Support risk-based annual and periodic audit plans.
• Conduct scheduled and surprise audits across departments, branches, warehouses, workshops, projects, and operational locations.
• Review controls, approval processes, segregation of duties, policies, procedures, and delegated authority.
• Document audit objectives, scope, testing methods, findings, evidence, and working papers.

Financial and operational audits

• Review revenue, purchasing, payments, expenses, advances, reimbursements, receivables, supplier balances, bank reconciliations, petty cash, and unusual transactions.
• Conduct physical inventory checks and review stock, materials, tools, machinery, vehicles, IT assets, and fixed-asset controls.
• Review procurement, supplier selection, purchase orders, approvals, due diligence, supplier advances, and invoice matching.
• Review sales, pricing, customer credit, contracts, project costs, billing, margins, and commercial exceptions.

Process and compliance audits

• Review finance, procurement, sales, production, warehouse, logistics, projects, HR, payroll, IT, and administration processes.
• Assess ERP, accounting, access-rights, user-authorisation, system, and management-reporting controls.
• Support audits related to quality, HSE, certification, and regulatory requirements where relevant.
• Assess whether records are complete, controlled, retrievable, and audit-ready.

Reporting and follow-up

• Prepare reports covering findings, risks, root causes, corrective actions, and financial, operational, compliance, or reputational impact.
• Agree action owners and completion timelines, maintain an audit action tracker, and verify implementation.
• Escalate overdue or high-risk findings and highlight recurring control issues and systemic risks.
• Support risk registers, control matrices, process documentation, and continuous improvement.

Required qualifications

• A CA, ACCA, CMA, CIA, or equivalent professional qualification is required.
• Approximately 3–6 years of internal audit, external audit, risk, controls, or compliance experience is required.
• Strong understanding of internal controls, financial processes, and operational risk is required.
• Experience reviewing procurement, inventory, sales, receivables, payments, and business operations is required.

Experience and skills

• Candidates should be able to analyse transactions, identify unusual patterns, and investigate discrepancies.
• Experience preparing audit working papers, reports, and corrective-action trackers is required.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint is required.
• Ability to work with ERP, accounting, and business-management systems is required.

Preferred experience

• Experience in manufacturing, engineering, trading, industrial, construction, oil and gas, marine, logistics, or project-based environments is preferred.
• Inventory-intensive, warehouse, manufacturing, project-audit, contract-review, and commercial-control experience is advantageous.
• Knowledge of VAT, corporate tax, financial reporting, UAE regulatory requirements, ISO systems, or fraud investigations is advantageous.
• Experience across multiple branches, entities, or countries is advantageous.

Growth opportunity

• The role may grow into broader responsibility across internal audit, risk management, governance, compliance, process excellence, and business controls.
• The position is intended to help prevent recurring problems, not only identify what went wrong.