Senior Associate - Internal Audit

Job purpose

Audit planning and delivery

• Contribute to detailed audit plans defining scope, objectives, and methodologies.
• Contribute to and, where assigned, lead end-to-end audits from planning and walkthroughs through testing, reporting, and closure.
• Develop audit scopes, objectives, and procedures based on risks, policies, contracts, regulations, and management expectations.
• Assess leasing, occupancy, tenant administration, billing and collections, service charges, property and facilities, maintenance, procurement, vendors, and contract controls.
• Review CAPEX/OPEX governance, budgets, approvals, work certification, variations, asset handover, lifecycle planning, and relevant technical controls.
• Evaluate segregation of duties, delegated authorities, data integrity, KPI reporting, reconciliations, and management monitoring.
• Conduct relevant site visits and physical verification of assets or works and assess control effectiveness.
• Analyze root causes, risk exposure, and business impact and develop practical, risk-based recommendations.

Reporting and follow-up

• Document and communicate audit observations, control gaps, cross-asset themes, and improvement opportunities.
• Monitor management actions, validate implementation evidence, and escalate overdue or significant matters.
• Facilitate external audit providers or technical specialists and support data analytics to improve audit coverage and insight.

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• At least five years of relevant Internal Audit, risk, or assurance experience.
• An Engineering background in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, or similar is strongly preferred but not mandatory.
• Relevant professional certifications such as CIA, CFE, CISA, ACCA, CPA, or CRMA are advantageous; property, facilities, and project-management qualifications are also valued.
• Real estate, asset management, property management, facilities management, or similar asset-intensive experience is preferred.
• Retail or residential operations exposure is strongly preferred, including leasing, service charges, maintenance, procurement/contracts, and CAPEX/OPEX controls.
• At least two years of UAE experience is preferred.
• Requires strong risk-based audit knowledge, analytical, data interpretation, and root-cause skills, and the ability to understand engineering/facilities processes and UAE real estate requirements.