דרושים Mergers & Acquisition Specialist - Ksa Nationals Riyadh ב-Ey ב-Saudi Arabia, Riyadh

Director / Partner - Cyber Security – Threat Management & SOC

As a Threat Management & SOC Sub-Competency Lead, you will be responsible for shaping the vision, strategy, and execution of advanced Security Operations Centers (SOCs) and threat management programs across the region. You will oversee large-scale SOC build and transformation projects, drive innovation in detection and response, and advise C-level stakeholders on cyber resilience strategies. This role requires a balance of strategic leadership, technical oversight, business development, and people management to position the firm as a market leader in SOC and threat detection services.

We’re looking for a visionary and strategic cybersecurity leader to lead the Threat Management sub-competency across the MENA region. You will define and execute the strategy for building, transforming, and scaling world-class Security Operations Center (SOC) and Threat Management capabilities for governments, national entities, and leading enterprises.

This is a unique opportunity to lead national and sector-wide SOC initiatives, deliver cutting-edge managed detection and response solutions, and be part of a leading firm that helps organizations stay ahead of today’s evolving cyber threats.

Your key responsibilities

• Define and lead the regional strategy and growth plan for SOC and Threat Management services across MENA.
• Own the Threat Management sub-competency P&L, driving market growth, operational excellence, and maturity practice.
• Oversee delivery of SOC build, transformation, and managed SOC engagements for government and enterprise clients.
• Develop and manage advanced threat detection, incident response, and threat hunting programs.
• Guide integration of threat intelligence, threat modeling, and red/purple team collaboration into SOC operations.
• Act as a trusted advisor to CISOs, CIOs, and boards, providing strategic guidance on SOC maturity and cyber resilience.
• Ensure SOC services comply with regulatory requirements (e.g., NCA ECC/DCC, ISO 27001, PCI DSS) and align with EY global standards and industry best practices.
• Drive innovation in detection engineering, AI/ML-driven analytics, SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation & Response), and XDR.
• Accountable for assigned accounts, client relationship management, account growth, revenue, timely project execution, invoice collection, and maintain margins etc.
• Lead client-facing workshops, executive presentations, and threat landscape briefings.
• Collaborate with cross-functional practices (e.g., Cloud Security, Offensive Security, IR, Risk Advisory) to deliver integrated threat management programs.
• Build, develop, and retain a high-performing team of SOC leaders, detection engineers, and threat hunters across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and the wider region.
• Lead strategic go-to-market initiatives, proposals, and client pursuits focused on SOC transformation and MDR.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning, enabling local talent growth and certification advancement.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong leadership presence with ability to influence C-level stakeholders and regulators.
• Visionary mindset with proven success in scaling SOC services across geographies and industries.
• Strong business acumen with experience in P&L ownership, business development, pipeline management, and service commercialization.
• In-depth knowledge of SOC operations, detection engineering, SIEM/SOAR/XDR technologies, and threat hunting practices.
• Strong understanding of threat intelligence and incident response coordination.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills — capable of bridging technical detail and strategic business outcomes.
• Visionary mindset with a track record of driving transformation and innovation in cybersecurity operations.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 12–15+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with focus in SOC leadership, threat management, or managed detection and response.
• Proven experience leading large-scale SOC transformations (build, operate, transfer models or managed SOC services).
• Demonstrated track record advising government, defense, financial, or critical infrastructure clients.
• Strong technical expertise with:

• SIEM: Splunk, IBM QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel
• SOAR: Cortex XSOAR, Splunk Phantom, Demisto
• EDR/XDR: Defender XDR, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Palo Alto Cortex

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC (GCIA, GCDA, GCTI, GRID), GCIH, CCSP, SANS.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience advising at the national or sector-wide level on SOC and threat management strategy.
• Exposure to cyber threat intelligence operations and integration into SOC workflows.
• Experience leading AI/ML-driven SOC initiatives, advanced analytics, and automation programs.
• Prior leadership in global or regional managed security services (MSSP/MDR).
• Experience presenting at conferences, publishing thought leadership, or contributing to cyber standards.

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.

Our Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) Financial Services team supports organizations through a diverse range of services that include finance function transformation, accounting and reporting advisory, transaction accounting, treasury, corporate governance, performance improvement and other services that support organizations navigate evolving business needs, technological advancement, demands for greater transparency and changing regulatory requirements.

Your key responsibilities

We value a strong team culture. You will play an active role in building and sustaining this culture by supporting recruitment efforts, helping retain top talent, and contributing to our learning and development programs.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• You have a master’s degree in accounting, Economics, (quantitative) Finance, business administration or a comparable field;
• Relevant working experience in the financial services sector and/or with a large consulting firm, gained in the finance (CFO) domain.
• You bring an innovative mindset, have affinity with and interest in designing and implementing advanced Finance domain practices and the use of AI and other technology to improve ways of working. You are passionate about making things better and do not accept status quo.
• You possess a strong understanding and have significant experience working with IFRS, through technical advice and implementation within the banking sector, and have experience with a broad range of finance processes.
• You understand the business model of banks and/or insurance companies, and their risk and regulatory complexities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, towards your team and to clients. You can explain complex topics in an easy and understandable way; and
• Supervising and coaching junior team members to ensure that they are able to continue developing both professionally and personally.
• Flexibility to travel across the MENA region
• Ideally, you also speak and write Arabic.

Job Title:

Key Responsibilities:

As a Consultant, you will focus on helping solve client problems by offering both strategic and operational deep Finance and Accounting industry expertise. You will work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive Government Sector consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. We pride ourselves on building long-lasting relationships with companies and organizations, to bring the best insights and solutions to help them tackle whatever critical issues they may face. Our FAAS practice currently focuses on several core sectors including Government, Health Industries, Consumer and Industrial Products & Services.

Skills and Attributes for Success:

• A bachelor’s degree in an accounting field
• Demonstrating strong experience in process improvement in financial planning and analysis, specifically in the budgeting/planning and reporting cycle.
• Demonstrating proven experience in financial planning, budgeting, and analysis, preferably in a consulting or advisory role.
• Proficient in utilizing process reengineering (BPR) principles to redesign and restructure budgeting cycles, achieving significant improvements in performance, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Demonstrating proven experience in public financial management, preferably in the Saudi Market.
• Possessing strong knowledge of financial management principles, budgeting methodologies, and financial modeling techniques.
• Demonstrating experience in planning and managing timelines across projects.
• Exhibiting excellent knowledge of data analytics tools, especially Power BI and Alteryx.
• Experience with at least two comprehensive cost accounting / optimization / reduction / rationalization projects at large companies. This must include review of all type of expenses

• Experience with reviewing companies’ budgets and the budgeting process, including experience with zero-based budgeting, performance-based budgeting and other budgeting frameworks and concepts.
• Experience with developing and reviewing cost allocation frameworks such as ABC costing and other costing techniques and methods.
• Experience in public sector planning applications (Hyperion performance management application, SAP Business planning and consolidation application)
• Relevant sector experience and exposure to working with one of the Big 4
• Professional qualification, such as ACCA, CMA, CPA

Financial Due Diligence – Analyst

You will collaborate with experienced due diligence professionals, gaining skills across sectors and opportunities for travel within MENA. As you progress, you'll handle complex transactions, lead teams, and build client relationships at EY.

Your key responsibilities

As an executive in the Transaction Diligence team, you will engage in due diligence for private equity and corporate buyers, analyzing financial and operational results of target companies. You will collaborate with your team, ensuring quality, sharing responsibilities, and keeping senior members updated on progress.

Skills and attributes for success

Individuals with strong analytical skills will flourish in this environment as you will regularly assist in researching technical accounting issues to evaluate implications on transaction valuation and structuring and prepare analyses of financial information to assess trends and fluctuations. Good communication skills will also be a key attribute for success within this role as you will be required to assist in preparing reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and develop and maintain productive working relationships with clients.

Qualifications and Experience

•Bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting and/or related major.

• Minimum of 2 years of accounting experience, preferably with previous due diligence exposure.

• Able to analyze financial and non-financial information to formulate views and conclusions.

• Strong analytical, presentation and report writing skills

Mergers and Acquisition Senior Manager/Director

Key Responsibilities

You will lead the execution of transactions across the client portfolio, preparing/reviewing client reports and key documentation for fund-raising, acquisitions and disposals. You will take an active role in business development activities including involvement in the preparation of pitch books and other marketing materials, and meeting with existing / target clients. You will also be responsible for the following:

• Originate and deliver transaction ideas, identifying opportunities, opening and leveraging relationships
• Project manage the transactions, driving the transaction timetable, ensuring quality on client deliverables, as well as managing counterparties and other advisers to ensure transaction milestones are met
• Understanding the key business drivers as well as predicting, identifying, and managing key issues and risks through insights, factual conclusions and advice
• Lead, develop and counsel junior colleagues, share knowledge, and take an active role in the growth and development of the whole 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 7-8 years' experience in a M&A environment, including experience playing a key role in executing transactions
• Strong communication, presentation and project management skills
• Proven ability to produce high quality and impactful professional documents for clients and internal use

Key Skillset (Must Have)

• Strong database programming/ backend development experience using SQL Server/Azure SQL, writing complex queries, stored procedures, views, triggers, cursors, UDFs.
• Strong knowledge in data modeling and Datawarehouse concepts.
• Experience on Azure Data Factory or any other ETL
• Develops, maintains, and optimizes all data layer components for new and existing systems, including databases, stored procedures, ETL packages, and SQL queries
• Experience on Azure data platform offerings.
• Interacts with application developers from various core systems to address changes in those systems and their impact on existing SQL databases
• Defines data solutions for business problems by working directly with project managers, seniors and clients
• Ability to effectively communicate with other senior leaders of IT on program strategies and plans and negotiate quality solutions

Secondary Skillset (Good to Have)

• Snowflake, Snowpipe
• Databricks
• Python or Pyspark or Scala
• Any NoSQL Database

Qualification & Experience Required

• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to work as an individual contributor.
• 4+ years of experience on SQL DB/Server including building SQL Database, database designing and data modelling, SQL server experience with SSIS, Any ETL experience.
• Experience on Azure Data Factory or SSIS or any other ETL tools
• Exposure to visual analytics tool (Power BI) would be good to have but not mandatory

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.

Role Overview

As the Cyber Trust Sub-Competency Lead, you will shape and lead the vision, strategy, and execution of advanced Digital Identity, Access Management, and Data Security programs across the region. You will oversee large-scale trust transformation initiatives, driving innovation across IAM, PAM, PKI, Data Security, Cyber AI, and the Cybersecurity of Emerging Technologies, while advising C-suite leaders and regulators on building confidence in digital ecosystems.

This role requires strategic leadership, deep identity and security architecture expertise, commercial acumen, and people leadership to position the firm as the trusted market leader in Cyber Trust and Identity Security services.

You will define and execute strategies that enable trusted digital transformation through secure identity, privileged access, and data security architectures while helping governments, national entities, and enterprises establish resilient digital foundations.

Your key responsibilities

• Define and lead the regional Cyber Trust and Identity Security strategy across MENA, spanning IAM, PAM, Data Security, Cloud Security, and Cyber AI.
• Own the Cyber Trust sub-competency P&L, driving growth, innovation, and delivery excellence.
• Oversee large-scale IAM/PAM program implementations, from strategy and architecture to execution across SailPoint, Microsoft Entra, Okta, ForgeRock, CyberArk, and related platforms.
• Lead development and execution of service offerings across:

• Identity & Access Management: IGA, CIAM, PAM, MFA, Lifecycle & Role Management, Zero Trust Identity.
• Data Security & Cryptography: PKI, key management, DLP, data classification, encryption, cryptographic governance.
• Cloud Security & Compliance: Zero Trust Cloud, CSPM, workload identity protection, and data residency assurance.
• Cyber AI & AI Security: AI-driven identity analytics, adaptive authentication, risk-based access, and model assurance.
• Cybersecurity of Emerging Technologies: IoT, 5G, Quantum, Autonomous Systems, and Decentralized Identity.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to CISOs, CIOs, and regulators, providing executive guidance on identity, privilege, and data security transformation.
• Drive enterprise-scale IAM/PAM deployments, integrations, and migrations across hybrid and cloud environments.
• Ensure compliance with regional and international standards (NCA, ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR, DORA) and align solutions with firm global frameworks.
• Lead proposal development, go-to-market initiatives, and pursuits focused on IAM/PAM and Data Security transformation.
• Build and mentor a high-performing team of IAM architects, PAM engineers, and data security specialists across KSA, UAE, Qatar, and the wider MENA region.
• Collaborate with other cybersecurity sub-competencies (Cloud, SOC, Risk, and GRC) to deliver integrated trust and identity programs.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong leadership presence with the ability to engage C-suite stakeholders and regulators.
• Proven success in large-scale IAM/PAM implementations and Identity Modernization Programs across multiple technologies (SailPoint, Entra, Okta, CyberArk, ForgeRock).
• Expertise in Identity Governance & Administration (IGA), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Customer Identity (CIAM), and Zero Trust Identity Architecture.
• Strong understanding of Data Security domains, including PKI, cryptography, key management, DLP, data classification, and secure information lifecycle management.
• Experience integrating identity and data protection controls across cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong business acumen, including P&L management, market expansion, and solution commercialization.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and executive storytelling skills — able to translate technical complexity into business impact.
• Proven track record of building client trust, influencing executive decisions, and delivering measurable outcomes.
• Visionary leader capable of driving Cyber Trust innovation and policy alignment at national or sectoral levels.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 12–15+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, with a focus on Identity and Access Management, Privileged Access, or Data Security.
• Demonstrated leadership in national or enterprise-scale IAM/PAM programs or Identity Governance initiatives.
• Proven hands-on or leadership experience implementing IAM/PAM technologies such as SailPoint, CyberArk, Microsoft Entra, Okta, ForgeRock, or similar.
• Experience in Data Security, including PKI, DLP, cryptography, and data classification/encryption frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust, identity federation, and modern authentication protocols (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect).
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP, CDPSE, or SABSA.
• Proven ability to build practices, manage P&L, and deliver strategic growth.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience leading national or sectoral digital identity frameworks or privileged access programs.
• Familiarity with Cloud Identity Governance, Just-In-Time access, and password-less authentication.
• Exposure to data sovereignty, residency, or cross-border data trust programs.
• Experience with cryptographic modernization and quantum-resilient key management.
• Prior leadership in regional or global cybersecurity consulting or technology organizations.
• Track record of publishing thought leadership in Identity, Data Security, or Cyber Trust.

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.