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.