
EY
Senior Consultant 1 - Forensics
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 09/01/2026
Job overview
Date posted
25/11/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
09/01/2026
Job description
The role supports EY Forensic & Integrity Services in helping organizations protect and restore enterprise and financial reputation by investigating facts, resolving disputes, and managing regulatory challenges with integrity-driven compliance programs. It involves managing and growing forensic service teams, providing strategic sourcing services related to regulatory compliance, corporate governance, fraud risk assessments, enterprise risk management, and strengthening internal controls. The position requires leading multiple client engagement teams, addressing compliance, financial, and operational risks, performing internal control testing, developing internal audit plans, and offering internal audit services on an outsourced basis. It requires evaluating client internal controls and SOX frameworks, advising on risk mitigation, briefing engagement teams on client internal audit environments and industry trends, maintaining relationships with client management regarding expectations for work products and deliverables, and demonstrating strong understanding of compliance, financial, and operational risks. The role produces engagement strategies compliant with professional standards, leads complex and judgmental procedures, develops plans to accomplish engagement objectives, advises clients on managing business risks and validating business information, and shares knowledge with team members. It involves working within global networks of advisors, addressing expectations of regulators and organizations such as FATF, producing thought leadership, and contributing to proposals and commercial insights.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead forensic teams providing regulatory compliance, corporate governance, fraud risk assessments, enterprise risk management, and internal controls services
- Manage multiple client engagement teams at an executive level and address compliance, financial, and operational risks
- Perform internal control testing, develop internal audit plans, and provide internal audit services on an outsourcing basis
- Assess internal controls and SOX frameworks to mitigate risk and apply findings to client situations
- Create engagement strategies compliant with professional standards and develop plans for achieving engagement objectives
- Provide subject matter insight to bids and proposals and lead presentations for complex project components
- Brief engagement teams on client internal audit environments and industry internal audit trends
- Maintain strong client management relationships regarding expectations, deliverables, and timing
- Guide and share knowledge with team members and perform procedures involving complex and judgmental issues
- Advise clients on business risk management and verify validity of business information
- Work with global networks of advisors, share responsibility, and update senior team members on progress
Experience & skills
- Bring a minimum of 4 years of experience in the forensics domain with background in GRC, internal and external audit, risk advisory, compliance, and risk assessment
- Have broad industry expertise and established experience with a top-tier consulting firm
- Lead teams combining diverse cross-border experience and local knowledge across industries
- Work effectively within a global advisor network and maintain communication and support across teams
- Demonstrate strong understanding of regulator and international organisation expectations such as FATF
- Possess working experience in the MENA region
- Show prior consulting firm experience
- Demonstrate fluent Arabic and English communication skills