Director, Internal Audit - EMEA

About Four Seasons:

Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.         

At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.

About the location:

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 130 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company’s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.

The Role of Director, Internal Audit EMEA:

We currently have an opportunity for a Director, Internal Audit to join our Four Seasons Corporate Office team in either Dubai or London.

This role reports to the Senior Director, Internal Audit and will be responsible for the execution of hotel internal audits, assisting with fraud investigations, and leading or assisting with various internal control projects and fraud data analytics. 

Key responsibilities within Hotel Audits will include planning hotel audits, performing detailed testing, providing written reports at the close of audit engagements, bringing exposure items or significant control weaknesses to the attention of the leadership team, leading or assisting in implementing enhancements to the internal audit programs, providing support to the field on operational and internal control issues and questions, coordinating activities with external auditors to support their audit and review procedures, and providing information on results of audits to support quarterly board reporting.

Key responsibilities within Fraud Investigations will include working with stakeholders to develop analytics, developing scripts that should be run periodically to detect fraud, conducting investigation techniques to gain evidence of fraudulent or unethical activities, recommending internal control and procedural improvements to prevent fraud, tracking and reporting on cases, and data mining activities.

Our Ideal Director, Internal Audit candidate will have:

Experience as a leader within finance and audit, a university degree in Business/Accounting/Finance and ideally have CPA, CIA and CFE professional qualifications. 

This role can be based in Dubai or London; however, the successful candidate should have the ability and willingness to travel and interact in different cultures/geographies.

You should have demonstrated experience and knowledge of financial reporting, the ability to assess financial and operational risks at corporate and properties, have thorough knowledge of financial matters including IFSR and GAAP, detailed knowledge of auditing practices – both internal and external, strong written skills especially in documenting controls and policies, and the ability to quickly adapt audit focus and strategies to changes in the industry, legislation or business risks. 

You will have the highest level of integrity and transparency, strong interpersonal, influencing, negotiation and relationship-building skills to work with cross-functional teams, you should have a proven track record of self-initiative to work independently and with limited supervision, understand the business, drive change and improve processes, effective project management skills, and be able to demonstrate strong judgment, political astuteness and sensitivity to cultural diversity.

What we offer:

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts can offer what many hospitality professionals dream of; the opportunity to build a life-long career with global potential and a real sense of pride in work well done.  We look for talent who share the Golden Rule – people who, by nature, believe in treating others as we would have them treat us. 

As Four Seasons works towards phenomenal growth in the next decade, our most valuable partners continue to be our talent, with whom we have a strong relationship based on the Golden Rule. This relationship is made tangible by the awards received year after year by Four Seasons on a corporate level, as well as by our hotels, resorts and residences around the world, making us an undisputed “employer of choice.”