Senior Consultant

Job description

From small businesses to some of the world’s best-known brands, our tailored services help build trust and confidence through transparency, clarity, and consistency for our clients across the MENA region. Our MENA clients look to us for advice and services they can trust every time.

You will use your professional skills and experience to make it happen, by supporting our MENA based EY Member Firms to serve clients in the MENA region across a broad range of industries and responsibilities.

Within the MENA region, we are actively engaged with all sectors of the economy and actively supporting the vision of national leaderships especially in the GCC countries.

We are dedicated to help our clients in all sectors anticipate the uncertainty they face in doing their business and work closely with them to help effectively manage the Risk.

Technology is a major component underpinning the need to serve increasing demands of our MENA clients in their sophisticated technology environments.

As organizations look to leverage the advantage technology offers, we’ll work with you to develop the consultancy and analytical skills that you’ll need in today’s environment.

Working on projects that cross borders and sectors, the experiences you gain here will be more valuable than anywhere else.
The opportunity

EY is recruiting for a Senior Consultant/ Assistant Manager to join our Technology Risk team at various offices across MENA. You will be responsible to serve our clients as part of our teams across MENA offices.

This position brings significant travel opportunities since EY operates a regional model with all consultants operating as one team across the region.
Your key responsibilities

As Senior Consultant/ Assistant Manager, you will be required to work effectively as a team member, draw on your knowledge and experience to solve complex issues and support the MENA local Partner(s) and senior executives, and build relationships with MENA internal clients and peers.
As a Senior Consultant/ Assistant Manager:

• Everything you will be involved in comes down to providing excellent customer service and helping our teams do the same. Whether it is working with multiple client teams, advising the clients on IT Risk related matters, or assisting executives with business development activities across various sectors, you will build strong relationships and become a trusted advisor to your MENA clients.
• You will participate in MENA engagements, working effectively as a team member, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress. You will assist in client service delivery, participate in all assigned tasks, and assist in preparing reports that will be delivered to clients and other parties.
  Skills and attributes for success
  Proactivity, 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

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information systems or a related discipline. Alternatively, a degree in business, accounting, finance, with additional IT qualifications.
  • 4+ years of relevant experience of working as IT risk consultant or an IT auditor for a public accounting firm, professional services firm, technology company, telecom company or a financial services company, or comparable experience as an IT/IS consultant
  • Fluent Arabic and/or English communication skills at a professional level.
  • Strong verbal and written communication with out of box thinking abilities.
  • Proficient in MS Office products (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • EY is actively looking to enhance the recruitment and retention of nationals and females across all MENA/GCC offices
    Ideally, you’ll also have
    • CISA, CISSP, CISM, and/or CIA certification is essential for longterm growth in the role; Based on an individual’s professional background, area of specialization or industry focus, we recognize that other certifications, credentials or experience may be more relevant than the listed certifications and therefore may be acceptable.
    • Experience of working in a similar role with an international consulting firm
    • More operationally focused in working and institutionalizing best practices and process
      What we look for

      We are interested in professionals who are business savvy with a passion for quality work, 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:

      Long-term career:we are a Big-4 global firm operating in almost all countries of the world.

      Continuous learning:
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