37 Manager IT Audit jobs in Bahrain

Overview

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Responsibilities

• Manages IT Audit involvement in multiple Audit engagements.


• Tracks and communicates progress, issues, and observations on a timely basis.


• Ensures quality & consistent documentation by team members as per agreed IT Audit templates and working papers.


• Handles engagements independently with minimal involvement or follow-up from seniors.


• Supports SoQM implementation and annual assessment of the Firm's IT controls under the System of Quality Management.


• Supports in reviews for 2LoD projects specifically relating to the topic of IT Audit.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Business Consulting and Services

Location: Manama, Capital Governorate, Bahrain

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KPMG in Bahrain employs over 350 professionals and partners. We provide our clients with a suite of locally supported Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. We recruit the best and brightest from around the world and currently have a workforce that represents over 20 countries working across our teams. We also pride ourselves on our ability to attract, nurture, and empower talent from our communities locally.

A career in Audit at KPMG will give you insights into the inner workings of companies and a broad business perspective that can open countless opportunities for professional and personal growth. Our Audit process does more than assess financial information. It’s designed to focus on the key areas of risk so that our clients can focus on managing their core business. KPMG combines a multi-disciplinary approach with deep, practical industry knowledge to help clients meet challenges and respond to business opportunities.

We do what matters!

The ideal candidate:

• 4- 9years of post-qualification experience with a Big 4 Audit firm, predominantly working on SME clients
• Technical and practical knowledge of IFRS

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About KPMG

KPMG in Bahrain employs over 350 professionals and partners. We provide our clients with a suite of locally supported Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. We recruit the best and brightest from around the world and currently have a workforce representing over 20 countries across our teams. We also pride ourselves in our capabilities to attract, nurture, and empower talent from our communities locally.

Primary role:

The IT Auditor manages IT Audit involvement in multiple engagements. Key responsibilities include tracking and communicating progress, issues, and observations in a timely manner; ensuring quality and consistency in documentation by team members according to IT Audit templates and working papers; handling engagements independently with minimal supervision; supporting the implementation of the System of Quality Management (SoQM) and conducting annual assessments of the firm's IT controls; and assisting in reviews for 2LoD projects related to IT Audit.

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From small businesses to some of the world’s best-known brands, our clients count on reliable financial statements, information and processes to inform their on-going strategies. More than ever, business is about interpreting and reacting to complex data - and they look to us for advice and services they can trust every time. You will use your professional skills and experience to make it happen, handling complex audit procedures across a broad range of industries and responsibilities.

Our tailored external audit services help build trust and confidence through transparency, clarity and consistency. We are 79,000+ professionals based worldwide across 150 countries. Audit services involve reporting on the fairness in all material respects with which a client’s audited financial statements are presented, in conformity with the applicable financial reporting framework.

**The opportunity**

EY is looking for a Manager with insurance sector experience to join the Audit team to lead on complex audit engagements and support growth of the Audit business.

**Your key responsibilities**

As a Manager, you will manage the delivery of audit engagements by defining the audit strategy in consultation with Associate Partners or Partners and executing it in compliance with EY’s policies and protocols. When required, you'll personally execute complex audit procedures and lead teams or parts of teams on engagements, depending on the size of the engagement. You’ll also assist in managing the financial aspects of engagements by organizing staffing, tracking fees and communicating issues to project leaders as well as participate in business development initiatives.

You'll actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships and confirm that work delivered to clients is of a high quality. As part of this, you'll anticipate and identify risks and escalate issues, as appropriate. As an influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning culture and will coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring. You will also contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training Assurance professionals and contribute to the maintenance of an educational program to continually develop personal skills of staff.

**Skills and attributes for success**

Pro
- activity, accountability and results
- driven people will flourish in this environment. Dealing with competing priorities, understanding how to manage resources and communicating effectively are key skills. This will have a huge impact on those around you and help promote a positive work ethic.

**To qualify for the role, you must have**
- Strong academic record, including a degree and professional accounting qualification
- At least eight years of professional experience in external audit
- Thorough knowledge of current auditing techniques and experience managing teams
- Specific industry experience in Insurance
- Experience with a Big 4 accounting firm
- Understanding of currently applicable and upcoming IFRS as well as US GAAP
- Experience of risk-based audit process
- Knowledge of use of audit tools and data analytic tools
- Coaching, mentoring and counselling experience
- Fluent English communication skills
- Effective presentation skills
**Ideally, you’ll also have**
- Proficiency in the Arabic language
- Experience in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region

**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.

**What we offer**

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:

- **Continuous learning**: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- **Success as defined by you**: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
- **Transformative leadership**: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- **Diverse and inclusive culture**: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

**If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.**

**The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.**

**EY | Building a better working world**

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strateg

Responsibilities:

1. Preparation of internal audit schedules and comprehensive audit programs.
2. Manages audits for all companies under the group, in accordance with internal audits schedules.
3. Manages the assessment of the relevancy, reliability and credibility of financial and operating information.
4. Manages the assessment of the effectiveness and efficiencies of the utilization of the organization's resources.
5. Reviews the scrutiny of records of assets including materials, equipment and buildings; ascertaining their safeguarding and proper depreciation being charged.
6. Manages the assessment of compliance with legal and fiscal requirements and other regulatory matters.
7. Supervises the assessment of the achievement of established objectives and goals for operations and programmes.
8. Investigates any frauds and follows up for implementing accepted suggestions.
9. Performs any special tasks as requested by the Audit Committee.
10. Coordinates with External Auditors over all auditing activity as relevant.
11. Undertakes regular risk assessments and suggests preventative measures, taking appropriate actions.
12. Manages the audit team by allocating appropriate personnel to different audit activities, ensures their training, and undertakes their performance review by evaluating their management of audit assignments.
13. Ensures the proper introduction and application of software/hardware/other resources to improve the functionality of the department.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Chartered Accountant/Certified Public Accountant.
2. High analytical skills to be able to find queries (including technical/non-accounting/etc. points).
3. Team development skills.
4. Well-developed interpersonal skills.

About The Company:

Management Information Resource Associates - MIRA is an independent, UK and Bahrain based Consultancy Practice that offers business consultancy services and comprehensive business solutions across a wide range of industries, business sectors and government organizations. MIRA works on implementing lucrative partnerships with organizations which we believe have growth potential with the geographic focus on promising locations in the Middle East. Our approach balances the risks and builds on the region's untapped opportunities. We create tailor-made solutions that cater for organizations in the region, while enhancing international best practices and benchmarks.

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Overview

In security risk management we're looking to harness the power of industry best practice combined with driving new innovation on how we do security risk assessments and modelling. Our security risk management team is the primary owner of the strategy and practices of how we identify, track and reduce our security risk across everything we do.

To support this we need to use industry best practices paired with emerging threat information to promote risk identification, quantification, impact analysis, and modelling to ultimately drive decision making. In this role, you will help establish and execute a broad strategic vision for the security risk program at Canonical. You will not only work within the team but also cross-functionally with various teams across the organisation. The team contributes ideas and requirements for Canonical product security, improving the resilience and robustness of all Ubuntu customers and users subject to cyber attacks. Additionally, the team collaborates with our Organisational Learning and Development team to develop playbooks and facilitate security training across Canonical.

The security risk management team's mission is not only to secure Canonical, but also to contribute to the security of the wider open source ecosystem. They might share knowledge through public presentations and industry events, and share threat intelligence with the wider community or represent Canonical in sector-specific governance bodies.

What you will do in this role

• Define Canonical's security risk management standards and playbooks
• Analyse and improve Canonical's security risk practices
• Evaluate, select and implement new security requirements, tools and practices
• Grow the presence and thought leadership of Canonical security risk management practice
• Develop Canonical security risk learning and development materials
• Work with Security leadership to present information and influence change
• Participate in developing key risk indicators, provide inputs to the development of key control indicators, and key performance indicators for various programs
• Apply statistical models to risk frameworks (such as FAIR, sensitivity analysis, and others)
• Participate in risk management, decision-making, and collaborative discussions
• Lead quantified risk assessments and understand the value of qualitative data for improvements to quality and engineering processes
• Interpret internal or external cyber security risk analyses in business terms and recommend a responsible course of action
• Develop templates and materials to help with self-service risk management actions
• Monitor and identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness of risk management processes
• Launch campaigns to perform security assessments and help mitigate security risks across the company
• Build evaluation methods and performance indicators to measure efficiency of security functions and capabilities

What we are looking for

• An exceptional academic track record
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
• Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
• Deep personal motivation to be at the forefront of technology security
• Leadership and management ability
• Excellent business English writing and presentation skills
• Problem-solver with excellent communication skills, a deep technical understanding of security assessments and risk management
• Expertise in threat modelling and risk management frameworks
• Broad knowledge of how to operationalize the management of security risk
• Experience in Secure Development Lifecycle and Security by Design methodology

What we offer

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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Efficiently prepare risk management analyses and reports, deliver risk management processes, and maintain risk management documentation, in support of company-wide risk awareness, mitigation and business continuity activities

Job specification

• Develop Risk Mitigation plans for newly identified risks in coordination with the respective Risk Owners
• Update Enterprise Risk Management Tracker before and after every Risk Management Committee meeting
• Participate in Ad-hoc Risk Assessment exercises (whenever needed)
• Perform quarterly sample audit on risk mitigation plans and Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Plans to identify any gaps and close them
• Participate in the regular Business Impact Analysis exercise and prepare the departmental, sectorial, and company reports
• Liaise with Technology and Business for documenting and testing the planned Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Plans in alignment with the approved BCM Strategy
• Consolidate Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Test Reports on a quarterly-basis
• Participate in 3rd parties Business Continuity Management assessment and follow up on the implementation of the agreed actions
• Monitor communications related to normal/major incidents management to ensure compliance with Major Incidents/Crisis Management Framework
• Maintain contacts of Crisis Management Team and Incident Management Teams, act as the Crisis Communication Coordinator in the time of crisis
• Conduct periodic crisis drills and prepare post-drill reports, Handle any required logistics related to Crisis Management
• Maintain Internal Audit Actions Tracker on a weekly-basis, co-ordinate the closure of Internal Audit actions with the respective action owners across all the sectors
• Prepare awareness material (whenever needed)
• Develop and maintain BCM dashboard and continuously improve other department’s working dashboards (ERM and IA Actions)
• Perform other responsibilities as required by higher levels of supervision

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Management or relevant field
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in Risk Management, Business Continuity Management.

Role Impact:

The incumbent will play a crucial role in safeguarding the organization by identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks that could impede operational efficiency and business continuity.

This position is responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive risk management frameworks and business continuity plans that ensure the organization can withstand and recover from potential disruptions.

By collaborating with cross-functional teams, the incumbent will foster a culture of risk awareness and resilience, ultimately contributing to the organization's strategic objectives and long-term sustainability.

Risk Assessment: Proficiency in identifying and analyzing potential risks across various business functions.

Business Continuity Planning: Expertise in developing, implementing, and testing business continuity plans to ensure minimal disruption during unforeseen events.

Regulatory Compliance: Knowledge of relevant laws and regulations governing enterprise risk and business continuity management.

Analytical Skills: Strong ability to analyze data and trends to inform risk management strategies.

Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey risk management strategies to stakeholders at all levels.

Project Management: Ability to lead and manage projects related to risk assessment and business continuity efforts.

Collaboration: Strong teamwork skills to work effectively with diverse teams and departments.

About Application Process

If you meet the criteria and you are enthusiastic about the role, we would welcome your application. Tocomplete the application you would need the following document(s):

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Our client is looking for a dedicated and analytical Lead Risk Management Analyst to join their expanding insurance division. This is a remote-first position, enabling you to contribute your expertise from any location while being an integral part of our client's success. You will be responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential risks across the organization's insurance portfolio. This involves developing and implementing robust risk management frameworks, policies, and procedures. Your role will include conducting in-depth risk assessments, analyzing data to identify trends and patterns, and providing strategic recommendations to senior management. You will work closely with various teams, including underwriting, claims, and compliance, to ensure that risk exposure is managed effectively and in line with regulatory requirements. A significant part of your role will involve developing and maintaining risk models, performing scenario analyses, and stress testing to understand the potential impact of adverse events. You will also play a key role in educating stakeholders on risk management best practices and fostering a risk-aware culture throughout the company. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of insurance products, financial markets, and regulatory landscapes. Excellent analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills are essential, as is the ability to communicate complex risk information clearly and concisely to diverse audiences. Experience with risk management software and data analytics tools is a strong advantage. This remote opportunity offers a chance to shape risk strategies in a forward-thinking organization and develop your career in a challenging yet rewarding environment. Proactive engagement, attention to detail, and a commitment to continuous improvement are highly valued. The ability to thrive in a virtual team setting and manage projects independently is crucial.

Our client is seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Financial Analyst to focus on Risk Management within their banking and finance division, located in **Shakhura, Northern, BH**. This critical role involves identifying, assessing, and mitigating financial risks across the organization. You will be responsible for developing and implementing risk management strategies, policies, and procedures to safeguard the company's assets and ensure regulatory compliance. Key responsibilities include conducting in-depth financial analysis of market, credit, and operational risks; developing risk models and forecasts; monitoring key risk indicators (KRIs) and reporting on potential exposures; collaborating with various departments to understand their risk profiles and provide guidance; contributing to the development of stress testing scenarios and business continuity plans; staying abreast of relevant financial regulations and industry best practices. The successful candidate will possess a strong understanding of financial markets, quantitative analysis, and risk assessment methodologies. Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential, as you will be required to present complex findings and recommendations to senior management. This position offers a challenging and rewarding career opportunity for a motivated professional within a reputable financial institution. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a proactive approach to risk identification and mitigation, with a keen eye for detail and a commitment to accuracy. You will play a vital role in maintaining the financial stability and integrity of the organization. Your insights will directly contribute to strategic decision-making and the long-term success of the company. We are looking for an individual who is adept at navigating complex financial landscapes and can effectively translate data into actionable risk management strategies. This role is fundamental to our client's commitment to sound financial practices and robust risk oversight.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in financial analysis, risk management, or a related role within the banking or financial services industry.
• Strong understanding of financial markets, instruments, and risk assessment techniques.
• Proficiency in statistical analysis and financial modeling software (e.g., Excel, Python, R).
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements (e.g., Basel Accords) is a plus.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Professional certifications such as FRM or CFA are highly desirable.