Operations Internal Audit Manager

AlUla Club is seeking a skilled **Operations Internal Audit Manager** to lead the operational internal audit function, ensuring that risks are effectively identified, assessed, and managed across the Club’s business units. This role is responsible for planning and executing audits aligned with strategic priorities, supervising audit staff, and presenting actionable recommendations to strengthen internal controls, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation. The role will serve as a strategic advisor to senior management and maintain regular engagement with department leaders to enhance governance practices.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead the annual risk assessment process to identify high-risk areas for operational audits and develop a risk based internal audit plan.
- Work closely with senior management to ensure audit scope aligns with strategic priorities.
- Manage the execution of the risk-based internal audit plan from planning to reporting, ensuring resources are optimally allocated to meet audit objectives.
- Supervise the development and maintain a Risk Control Matrix (RCM) to map key risks, controls, and audit procedures to ensure comprehensive coverage of operational risks.
- Lead the planning, scoping, execution, and conclusion of audits, ensuring thorough documentation and evaluation and ensure thorough process walkthroughs, risk identification, and control testing are conducted.
- Evaluate internal controls for efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance with internal policies, procedures, and industry regulations.
- Provide advisory support on control enhancements and process improvements.
- Review and finalize audit reports, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and risk prioritization.
- Perform root cause analysis of issues identified during audits and communicate these insights to improve future processes.
- Communicate audit findings, risk impact, and recommendations to senior management and relevant stakeholders.
- Present audit results to the audit committee, executive leadership, and key process owners.
- Monitor audit team performance, providing guidance, coaching, and technical support.
- Cultivate a high-performance audit team by conducting regular training sessions, creating development plans, and providing mentoring to enhance skillsets.
- Drive the recruitment and onboarding process for new audit staff to ensure team capabilities align with audit objectives.
- Foster strong working relationships with department heads to facilitate audit operations and address any issues collaboratively.
- Implement, supervise and maintain an audit issue tracking system to monitor the status of corrective actions.
- Ensure audit recommendations are implemented effectively and in a timely manner.

**Requirements**:

- Minimum of 8 years of experience in operational audits, preferably in a similar industry.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
- Professional certification such as CIA, CPA, or ACCA is preferred.
- Strong expertise in risk and control assessment, audit planning, and execution.
- Proven ability to lead and develop audit teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Proficient in SAP financial systems.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking capabilities.
- Outstanding communication skills with the ability to present audit findings clearly to senior management and the audit committee.
- Demonstrated success in driving process improvements and implementing control enhancements.