Senior Consultant - Tax Corporate Law Saudi jobs at Ey in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh

Mergers and Acquisition Senior

Key Responsibilities

We are interested in highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization.

You will support in the execution of transactions across the client portfolio, preparing client reports and key documentation for fund-raising, acquisitions and disposals. You will also be responsible for,

• Meeting the transaction timetable, ensuring quality on client deliverables, as well as engaging with counterparties and other advisers to ensure transaction milestones are met
• Understanding the key business drivers as well as identifying, and managing key issues and risks through insights, factual conclusions and advice
• Collaborate with junior colleagues, share knowledge, and take an active role in the growth and development of the team

Skills & Attributes for Success

Experience of corporate finance in an investment bank, professional services firm or boutique with a track record of working on both the buy-side and sell-side. as well as finance raising. the role would require strong numerical, financial and modelling skills based on a well-developed understanding of financial statements. You will have sound judgement and an ability to generate creative solutions to problems.

To qualify you must have

• Bachelor’s degree ideally in a finance or related specialization from a reputable University
• At least 3-4 years' experience in a M&A environment, including experience playing a key role in executing transactions
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Proven ability to produce high quality and impactful professional documents for clients and internal use

Manager to Director – Enterprise Risk – Risk Consulting

We enhance performance through creating risk-enabled organizations and help clients identify important risks, design frameworks to manage them and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of risk management. As a risk professional, you will be addressing client issues and transformations relating to Enterprise Risk Management (covering both business and IT risk), Internal Audit, Program Risk Management, process and controls design and effectiveness, and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) implementations. Our solutions can be used by our clients to build confidence and trust with their customers, the overall market and when required by regulation or contract.

Your key responsibilities

This is a role where no two days are the same – so you’ll find yourself taking on plenty of new responsibilities as you go. You will be responsible for managing multiple client engagement teams at an executive level within the practice and the firm. You’ll work alongside clients and colleagues, delivering our solutions and contributing to growing our business and developing our people. If you’re flexible and ready to adapt to a constantly changing environment, there’s no better place to develop your skills. Since you’ll be working directly with clients, some travel will be required. Below are examples of expectations from your grade:

• Effectively manage and motivate client engagement teams with diverse skills and backgrounds.
• Consistently deliver quality client services and manage expectations of client service delivery
• Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes
• Stay abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business
• Develop and maintain long-term relationships and networks with clients and internal EY stakeholders
• Demonstrate deep technical capabilities and professional knowledge
• Possess in depth business acumen and demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate to new knowledge
• Remain current on new developments in consulting services capabilities and industry knowledge

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication, writing and presentation skills
• Leadership, teamwork and client service skills
• Demonstrates integrity, values, principles, and work ethic

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor's or master's degree in Accountancy, Business, Risk Management, Information Management Systems, Industrial engineering, or other related discipline

• Manager: A minimum of 6 years of experience working as an IA auditor or Risk/Compliance adviser for a public accounting firm, a professional services firm, or within industry

• Senior Manager:A minimum of 8 years of experience working in a leading position as Risk/Compliance consultant or an internal auditor for Consulting services firm, or within industry
• Director: A minimum of 10 years of experience working in a leading position as Risk/Compliance consultant or an internal auditor for Consulting services firm, or within industry
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Access, Word, and PowerPoint
• Enterprise Risk management, Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC)
• Willingness to travel outside of their assigned office location as the need arises
• Strong data analytical skills are required
• Professional certifications such as: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Governance, Risk, Compliance professional (GRCP), Professional Risk Manager (PRMIA), Certification in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA), PMP

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.

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.

• Go-Getter Mindset: You are proactive, results-driven, and thrive in dynamic environments. You take ownership of complex challenges, inspire teams, and consistently deliver beyond expectations.
• Technical Excellence: You possess deep expertise in climate change, sustainability, and ESG frameworks. Your analytical skills enable you to design robust solutions, interpret regulatory trends, and translate technical insights into actionable strategies.
• Strategic Leadership: You lead multidisciplinary teams, foster collaboration, and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders. You are adept at navigating ambiguity, influencing decision-makers, and driving long-term transformation.
• Business Development: You actively pursue new opportunities, cultivate client portfolios, and contribute to the growth of EY’s sustainability practice.

• Lead and manage multiple client engagements, ensuring high-quality delivery and engagement economics.
• Develop and implement sustainability strategies, focusing on long-term transformation and measurable performance improvement.
• Analyze regulatory changes, market trends, and organizational strengths/weaknesses to create innovative solutions for complex business challenges.
• Serve as a champion for CCaSS initiatives, driving thought leadership and best practices across the team.
• Mentor and upskill team members, fostering a culture of excellence, agility, and continuous learning.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor on climate change, decarbonization, ESG reporting, and sustainability strategy.
• Support business development activities, including proposal writing, client presentations, and networking within the sustainability ecosystem.

• Demonstrated experience in climate change, sustainability, and ESG—especially within capital projects, transport, real estate, urban development, hospitality, and construction.
• Strong technical, quantitative, and analytical skills; ability to synthesize data and communicate complex ideas clearly.
• Proven track record in consulting, project management, and team leadership within a Big-4 or leading advisory firm.
• Expertise in sustainability reporting frameworks (e.g., GRI, CSRD, ISSB), circular economy, HSE management systems, and green building standards.
• Experience in GHG accounting, verification, and environmental/social impact assessment.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent in English and Arabic; flexible to frequent business travel.

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering, energy, finance, economics, or related sciences. MBA is a plus.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience, with a strong consulting background.
• Certifications in climate change, sustainability, or ESG are highly desirable.

• Competitive compensation and performance-based rewards.
• Long-term career growth in a global, multidisciplinary team.
• Continuous learning, coaching, and leadership development.
• Diverse and inclusive culture, empowering you to make a meaningful impact.

Senior Manager / Director Financial Services Risk Management (FSRM)

Languages:Arabic & English (Mandatory)
Experience:12–15 years
Banking, Insurance, and Financial Institutions

Client Delivery and Technical Leadership

• Lead complex risk transformation engagements covering credit, market, liquidity, and operational risk , regulatory capital, and stress testing.
• Design, calibrate, and validate risk models (PD, LGD, EAD) under Basel and IFRS 9.
• Develop and review ICAAP frameworks, capital planning, and stress testing programs for regulatory submission.
• Support clients in strengthening liquidity risk frameworks (LCR, NSFR, IRRBB) and aligning ALM practices with supervisory expectations.
• Advise on operational risk frameworks, RCSA design, loss data analytics, and capital quantification under Basel III/IV.
• Oversee engagement governance, ensuring delivery excellence, client satisfaction, and measurable impact.

Market and Business Development

• Build and manage senior client relationships, including C-suite and Board-level stakeholders.
• Contribute to business development through proposal leadership, solution design, and sector insights.
• Identify emerging client needs (ESG, climate risk, AI governance) and translate them into new service offerings.

People and Practice Development

• Coach and mentor junior team members, fostering a culture of analytical rigor and innovation.
• Develop EY’s intellectual capital through publications, client insights, and participation in industry forums.
• Promote cross-border collaboration with other EY member firms in Europe, APAC, and the GCC.

Desirable / Differentiating Areas

• Lead or contribute to fraud risk analytics using machine learning and anomaly detection.
• Design third-party risk management frameworks for outsourcing and fintech ecosystems.
• Apply AI/ML and automation in model governance, early-warning indicators, and risk reporting.
• Integrate digital, cyber, and resilience considerations into enterprise risk frameworks.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Strong quantitative background and regulatory fluency across credit, market, liquidity, and operational risk domains.
• Deep understanding of Basel III/IV , IFRS 9 , and ICAAP/ILAAP requirements.
• Proficiency in Python, R, SAS, or SQL for quantitative and stress-testing model development.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, capable of engaging both technical and executive audiences.
• Strategic thinker with an ability to translate complex regulations into actionable business solutions.

To Qualify for the Role, You Must Have

• 12–15 years of experience in financial-services risk management, either in consulting or at a Tier-1 bank.
• Demonstrated success leading risk and capital-management transformation programs.
• Experience working directly with regulators (e.g., SAMA, CBUAE, QCB, EBA, APRA, PRA).
• Fluency in Arabic and English (spoken and written).

• Exposure to fraud, third-party, or digital-risk domains.
• International project experience across Europe, Australia, or APAC.
• Professional certifications such as FRM , CFA , or PRM .
• Experience leveraging AI/ML for predictive modelling, anomaly detection, or model monitoring.

• A platform to lead risk transformation across the region’s most significant financial institutions.
• Access to EY’s global network of quantitative and regulatory experts.
• Opportunities to innovate with emerging technologies in risk and finance.
• A diverse and inclusive culture that values intellectual curiosity and teamwork.

Your key responsibilities

As a Consultant in the strategy consulting practice, you will be a key participant in work streams and engagements as you translate client needs into project tasks and deliverables. You will work closely with clients to define the objective and scope of the engagements and deliverables in consultation with your seniors. You can expect to spend most of your time working on strategy-related projects which include long-term strategy roadmaps, growth strategy, market entry & expansion strategy, go-to-market strategy, business-wide digital transformation projects, commercial due diligence, and greenfield projects.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A bachelor's degree from a top-ranking university.
• At least 2 years of work experience, ideally within consulting or strategy-related work preferably in Government and Public sector, Digital/AI, Financial Services, Energy and Industrials sectors,
• Ability to make detailed assessments of industries, products, markets, competitors and customers to identify risks and opportunities.
• Proficiency in the English and Arabic language, including the ability to listen, understand, read and communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally, in a professional environment.
• Effective organization, time management and problem-solving skills with the ability to work under pressure and adhere to project deadlines.
• Willingness and ability to travel within the MENA region, when necessary (approximately 25-50% of time).

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• MBA or Masters from a top tier business school.
• Prior experience with a particular focus on client advisory or strategic planning with the ability to multitask and work efficiently within a past-paced environment.

What we look for

We are interested in highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator, you’ll be a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen in a dynamic organization.

What we offerWe 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 worldneeds.
• Diverse and inclusive culture:You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

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.

Assistant Manager – Enterprise Risk - Saudi Nationals

The objective of our Enterprise risk services is to provide clients with a candid and reliable overview of their risk landscape. Our solutions can be used by our clients to build confidence and trust with their customers, the overall market and when required by regulation or contract.

In this service line, you will advance your career in risk management and internal auditing, use specific tools to perform analysis and advice clients on strengthening of their internal control environment. As you progress within your role, you will be well-equipped to help our clients to better manage risks and align their business objectives effectively.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for effectively engaging with clients and executing risk management and internal audit projects under the supervision of your Managers.
• Client engagements primarily in the areas of Business Risk services, Internal audit, Enterprise Risk management, Compliance and regulatory services, Internal controls, Contract Risk Services, Business Process Management and other related solutions
• Support in driving innovation in service delivery; ensure delivery is in line with firm’s Quality and Risk management requirements/expectations
• Assist Managers with business development proposals on existing/new clients
• Assist Managers in developing/refreshing methodologies related to our existing/new solutions
• Contribute to various firm wide initiatives like learning and development (L&D) programmes, knowledge sharing, practice development and growth under guidance of Managers
• Take up project execution responsibility in a team or individually as per requirements and work plan
• Train and support junior team members within the department to grow their career.
• Supervise and review work performed by subordinates and provide qualitative inputs before submission of deliverables to Managers/client (as the case may be)
• Sensitive towards EY code of conduct, values and quality standards

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Continuously strive towards exceeding client & team expectations and work on increasingly complex assignments
• Conduct research and prepare client presentations, information memorandums and contribute to thought leadership documents
• Contribute to consulting engagements in the capacity of a team member - deliver quality output within assigned timelines
• Ensure discipline to work and productivity of self and reporting subordinates; promotes positive working environment within a team
• Attend L&D programs and exhibit knowledge of consulting methodology and consulting attributes.
• Continuously strive towards achieving goals agreed upon with Manager
• Keep abreast with developments in business related areas and assist team leaders/managers in preparing client decks/documents.
• Sector focus (deep understanding of the various industries, trends, issues/challenges & key players) based on the industry group alignment

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business , Accounting , Engineering or other relevant degrees
• Professional qualifications (e.g., CIA, CISA, CPA, IRM, etc) will have an added advantage.
• Senior Consultant: At least 3 years’ experience in advising clients in various sectors on risk management and internal audit matters.
• Assistant Manager: At least 5 years’ experience in advising clients in various sectors on risk management and internal audit matters.
• IT and data analytics skills
• Exhibit flexibility to adapt to multiple cultures / sectors and display agility and diversity
• Demonstrate capability of being a ‘quick learner’ of business processes, models, EY methodologies with an analytical bend of mind
• Display a structured thought process and problem-solving skills. Ability to do problem break down and analysis
• Candidates should be willing to travel
• To comply with Saudi Arabian Nationalization law, EY must hire nationals from Saudi Arabia for this role.

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.

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.

Your key responsibilities

You'll play a key role throughout the project lifecycle, translating data into insights and building strong client relationships across industries. You'll also lead multiple transfer pricing engagements and contribute to high-quality tax planning services.

Skills and attributes for success

You'll apply advanced transfer pricing and economic concepts to solve client challenges, prepare documentation, support audits, model financial outcomes, and collaborate globally to deliver integrated, innovative solutions.

Qualifications & Experience

• A bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Economics, Management, Tax, Law or another relevant discipline and a minimum of 5 years of related work experience
• A master’s degree or a professional qualification such as CPA, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), American Society of Appraiser's Business Valuation Certification or Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to work at a fast-paced, often with shifting responsibilities.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Proficiency in Arabic
• A consistent record of excellence in a professional services environment
• Existing transfer pricing experience