Internal Audit Lead - SACA

Saudi Air Navigation Services - SANS

Key Accountability Areas

Key Activities

SACA Internal Audit

• Support the delivery of approved, risk-based audit plans, with a focus on SACA s projects, technical operations, and aviation-related services.
• Review policies, procedures, and key controls to understand how risks are managed and identify gaps that may impact safety, compliance, performance, or cost.
• Examine how projects, technical activities, and operational processes are carried out to assess whether they are working efficiently and as intended.
• Review how changes and risks are identified, approved, and monitored within the assigned functions.
• Analyze information gathered during audits and form balanced, evidence-based conclusions.
• Prepare clear audit reports, highlight key issues, and propose practical improvement actions for management, submitting them to the Internal Audit CoE Manager.
• Assist in tracking agreed actions and supporting the closure of audit observations when required.
• Submit the associated reports to the Internal Audit COE Manager, with initial recommendations and management actions plans.
• Support advisory and assurance activities across other areas in line with business priorities

Collaboration & External Audit Coordination

• Support the Audit Director in preparing periodic reports for senior management, the Audit Committee for SANS &SACA and SACA Board
• Work closely with internal teams such as Finance, Legal, Risk, and Compliance to support effective audit and governance processes

Internal Audit Quality

Assurance & Continuous

Improvement SANS & SACA

• Support the implementation of Internal Audit quality assurance activities to ensure audits are performed in line with Internal Audit Standards.
• Ensure audit documentation, including work papers and reports, is complete, accurate, and clearly supports audit conclusions.
• Overseeing the documentation review process to ensure audit reports, work papers, and findings meet quality standards, are accurate, and provide actionable insights.

Whistleblowing Program

Management SANS &SACA

• Support the operation of the whistleblowing program to ensure safe, confidential, and accessible reporting channels are available.
• Assist in managing the intake and handling of whistleblowing cases in a professional, objective, and confidential manner.
• Contribute to awareness activities related to ethics, fraud prevention, and whistleblowing across the organization

Policies, Processes and

Procedures

• Conduct day-to-day activities while ensuring compliance to policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes taking into account leading practices, changes in business environment, cost reduction and productivity improvement