Financial and Operational Auditor

Company Overview

Ooredoo Group is a globally recognized telecommunications company active in nine countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Their ambitious strategy focuses on becoming the premier digital infrastructure provider in these regions. The company's strategic vision revolves around five pillars:

• Value-Focused Portfolio: Maximizing returns from telecom operations, towers, data centers, subsea cable ventures, and fintech.
• Strengthen the Core: Efficient capital utilization and maintaining cost discipline.
• Evolve the Core: Generating new revenue streams through analytics, digital operations, and partnerships.
• People: Cultivating a motivated and skilled workforce via integrated learning, mentorship, and coaching.
• Excellence in Customer Experience: Delivering outstanding experiences for customers.

Employees at Ooredoo are valued as key contributors from day one, with ample opportunities for skill enhancement, career progression, and maintaining a healthy work-life balance, fostering both personal and professional growth.

Role Overview

This position is responsible for executing various financial and operational audit assignments within Ooredoo Qatar’s operations to ensure all audits are performed diligently and aligned with professional standards. The role includes performance, operational, financial, and compliance auditing, contributing to the annual internal audit plan and driving management follow-ups.

Primary Duties

• Support risk identification and assessment through risk-based auditing methodologies, providing insights for the annual financial and operational audit plan.
• Collect management inputs for the audit plan via meetings, compliance and regulatory consultation, and external audit collaboration.
• Perform thorough financial and operational audits, ensuring proper audit scope, sufficient testing, and accurate conclusions.
• Adhere strictly to audit procedures: issue identification, criteria development, evidence analysis, and documentation of technical methods.
• Conduct interviews, review documents, administer audit surveys, draft summary memos, and compile working papers.
• Develop and execute audit programs with appropriate testing, recognize and assess control weaknesses relative to audit objectives.
• Document audit findings, issues, and improvement recommendations.
• Present audit results and recommendations to management and the Global Chief Audit Executive (GCAE) through reports and meetings promptly.
• Follow up to ensure timely implementation of audit recommendations.
• Liaise with various organizational levels to obtain and exchange relevant information for audits.
• Maintain ethical standards and ensure compliance with International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing and the IIA Code of Ethics.
• Operate independently with considerable autonomy and judgment.
• Assist the Assistant Director in coordinating with external auditors and facilitating their work within the company.

Consulting Responsibilities

• Support consulting engagements tied to financial and operational matters upon request.
• Communicate consulting outcomes through written and oral reports to management and the GCAE promptly.
• Help review company policies and procedures before submission to the GCAE and subsequent executive approvals.

Special Tasks and Fraud Investigations

• Carry out fraud investigations or special audit assignments as directed.
• Report findings and recommendations from special assignments timely to management and the GCAE.

Team Management and Development

• Supervise and oversee work of Financial & Operational Auditors, providing guidance during assignments.
• Contribute to team motivation via daily support, training, and coaching where appropriate.
• Foster productive team relationships through individual and group communications.
• Engage in professional development opportunities internally and externally, sharing acquired knowledge with colleagues.
• Take proactive responsibility for improving expertise by staying current with industry developments.

Additional Responsibilities

• Represent internal audit at project and management meetings as required.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by supervisors.

Work Interaction

• Internally collaborate across functions.
• Engage with external business partners.

Candidate Profile

• Possess between 2 to 5 years experience in a similar auditing role.
• Familiarity with International Accounting and Reporting Standards.
• Demonstrated effective communication and interpersonal abilities, including report drafting and delivering presentations for audit findings and improvement suggestions.
• Strong analytical and evaluative skills.
• Knowledge of audit best practices.
• Skills in process improvement initiatives.
• Hold a bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or business administration.
• Preferred certification in a relevant area such as CIA, CA, or CPA.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.

Technical and Behavioral Skills

• Intermediate proficiency in Risk Management.
• Advanced expertise in Audit and Compliance.
• Basic understanding of Planning and Profit & Loss (P&L) fit analysis.
• Basic Process Management skills.
• Intermediate abilities in Networking and Collaborative Influencing.
• Intermediate skills in Delivering Results and Ownership.
• Intermediate capacity in Building Customer Value.