Senior Consultant - Forensic and Integrity Services Ernst & Young AE

The opportunity

As a Senior Consultant you ll build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and develop a portfolio of projects by focusing on high value opportunities. You ll lead presentations and proposals for complex projects or elements of highly complex projects and provide subject matter insight to bids and proposals. Drawing on your skills and experience, you ll create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior Consultant in the Forensics team, you are required to lead and grow a team and to provide strategic sourcing services related to regulatory compliance, corporate governance, fraud risk assessments, enterprise risk management, internal controls to our clients. You are also required to assist organizations to maintain effective and efficient controls, in order to manage organizational and strategic risks.

You will be responsible for managing multiple client engagement teams at an executive level within the practice and the firm. You can expect to work with high level client personnel to address compliance, financial, and operational risks as well as perform internal control testing, develop internal audit plans, and provide internal audit services on an outsourcing basis. You will assess the client s current state internal controls and SOX framework in order to mitigate risk.

Provide guidance and share knowledge with team members and participate in performing procedures especially focusing on complex, judgmental and/or specialized issues. You are required to work with the team and the client to create plans for accomplishing engagement objectives and a strategy that complies with professional standards and advise clients to understand and manage their business risks and verify the validity of their business information.

Brief the engagement team on the client's IA environment and industry IA trends. Maintain relationships with client management to manage expectations of service, including work products, timing, and deliverables. Demonstrate a thorough understanding of compliance, financial, and operational risks along with performing internal control testing, develop internal audit plans, and provide internal audit services on an outsourcing basis. Assess internal controls and SOX framework in order to mitigate risk and apply it to client situations

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in the Forensics domain coupled with a background in GRC, internal & external audit, risk advisory and compliance and risk assessment with a consulting firm.
• Broad industry expertise and network, and with an establishes experience with a top tier consulting firm
• Lead a team of professionals to combine diverse cross-border experience with local knowledge across a broad spectrum of industries
• Work effectively as a member of a worldwide network of professional advisors, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress
• Strong understanding of expectations of regulators and international organisations such as FATF.

Ideally, you ll also have

• Working experience in the MENA region
• Prior experience in consulting firm
• Fluent Arabic and English communication skills

What we look for

We are interested in entrepreneurs who have the confidence to develop and promote a brand-new strategic vision both internally and externally. You will be business savvy with a passion for innovation as well as the motivation to create your own EY journey.