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Senior Manager - SME
- Permanent
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 16/04/2026
Job overview
Date posted
02/03/2026
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 40,000 - 50,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Job description
The Senior Manager - SME (Audit) at Presight in Abu Dhabi is a client-facing leadership role responsible for shaping, positioning, and delivering technology-enabled audit and assurance solutions, particularly within Financial Services and other regulated industries. The position operates at the intersection of governance, risk, technology, and transformation, working directly with client executives such as CAE, CFO, CRO, CIO, and CTO to modernize internal audit functions, embed analytics and AI into assurance processes, and strengthen governance frameworks. The role translates Presight’s data, AI, and analytics capabilities into scalable, productized audit offerings that meet regulatory obligations, enhance operational resilience, and support digital transformation agendas. Responsibilities include engaging clients to assess audit maturity, regulatory expectations, and digital transformation priorities, facilitating executive workshops and diagnostic sessions, shaping client roadmaps for analytics- and AI-enabled audit, bridging client audit/business teams with Presight’s product, data, and engineering functions, contributing to go-to-market materials, proposals, and presentations, embedding data, automation, and advanced analytics into audit workflows, providing subject matter expertise on internal audit methodologies, governance frameworks, and control environments, advising on design and operating effectiveness of business, technology, data, and AI-related controls, ensuring alignment with QHSE, business continuity, information security, privacy, risk, and governance standards, advocating for data-driven audit transformation, monitoring regulatory developments, and developing thought leadership content and industry insights.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Chief Audit Executives and senior stakeholders across Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Technology, guiding audit transformation strategies.
- Lead client discussions to assess audit maturity, regulatory expectations, digital transformation priorities, and control challenges within Financial Services and regulated industries.
- Facilitate executive workshops and diagnostic sessions to evaluate current-state audit capabilities and identify opportunities for modernization.
- Shape client roadmaps for embedding analytics, AI, and automation into internal audit functions and assurance workflows.
- Bridge communications between client audit/business teams and Presight’s product, data, and engineering functions to ensure solution alignment and value delivery.
- Shape and refine Presight’s technology-enabled audit and assurance offerings, translating regulatory requirements into scalable solution components, accelerators, and frameworks.
- Support commercial teams in positioning differentiated audit analytics, continuous monitoring, and AI-driven assurance capabilities to clients.
- Provide subject matter expertise across audit methodologies, governance, internal control environments, and technology risk, advising clients on design, operating effectiveness, and control oversight mechanisms.
- Develop thought leadership content, executive briefings, and industry insights while representing Presight in industry forums, client roundtables, and strategic engagements.
Experience & skills
- Demonstrate 8–12+ years of experience in internal audit, external audit, or risk advisory, preferably within Financial Services or regulated industries.
- Possess strong background in audit methodologies, governance frameworks, and internal control evaluation.
- Proven client-facing advisory or consulting experience with the ability to engage senior stakeholders including CAE, CFO, CRO, CIO, and CTO.
- Experience assessing business processes, technology platforms, data environments, and digital transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to bridge business and technology discussions credibly and influence executive-level decisions.
- Experience modernizing audit functions through analytics, automation, or digital platforms.
- Exposure to data governance, cybersecurity, AI, or technology risk domains and supporting regulatory reviews or supervisory interactions.
- Proficiency in shaping, productizing, and scaling technology-enabled audit and assurance solutions for clients.