Governance — Internal Audit — GCC

AdvisoRisK

Know where you stand. Govern where you're going.

We build and assure the governance and internal-audit foundations Saudi companies need to list, comply, and lead — with AI built into how we work.

Services

One path, from first listing to continuous assurance.

Four tiers, one direction. Scroll to walk the ladder.

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The value ladder

For companies preparing to list on Tadawul or Nomu — and for boards that want the same clarity without a listing deadline. We establish exactly where your governance and internal-audit infrastructure stands against CMA requirements, and what it takes to close the gap.

  • IPO Governance ReadinessBoard, committees, charters, Form-8 and listing-prerequisite infrastructure.
  • Governance & Internal Audit DiagnosticA senior-led assessment with a sequenced remediation map.

We build internal-audit functions from the ground up, or turn around functions that have lost the confidence of their audit committee — methodology, people, technology and IPPF conformance, delivered at senior level.

  • Internal Audit Function BuildCharter to first audit-committee report, fully stood up.
  • Internal Audit TurnaroundTroubleshooting, quality uplift and interim leadership via consultancy secondment.

Internal audit as an always-on capability. Our platform embeds AI across the audit lifecycle — risk-based planning, fieldwork, reporting, issue follow-up and continuous monitoring — with the auditor's judgment always in the loop.

  • AI-Enabled Internal Audit PlatformSubscription. Built for PDPL and NCA expectations from day one.
  • Continuous Monitoring & Audit-Committee DashboardsAssurance that doesn't wait for the next fieldwork cycle.

For boards that have the infrastructure and want the edge: directors equipped for their duties, and governance that keeps pace with AI — including how the organisation assures the AI it deploys.

  • Board Governance & Director DevelopmentEffectiveness reviews, committee support and director education.
  • AI GovernanceFrameworks, oversight and assurance for AI adoption — who audits the AI.
How we work

Before anything is tested, we map your control environment, objectives and exposure — so effort lands where risk is real, not where it's easy.

  • Control-environment mapEntities, processes and systems that matter, and why.
  • Risk-based scopeAgreed with your audit committee before fieldwork begins.

Controls are assessed and tested independently, with documented evidence behind every conclusion — held to the standard your audit committee expects.

  • Independent control testingDesign and operating effectiveness, evidenced.
  • IIA-aligned working papersConclusions that stand up to scrutiny.

AI works across the audit lifecycle, surfacing patterns, exposure and anomalies far faster than a manual pass — while the auditor's judgment stays in the loop on every call.

  • Pattern & anomaly surfacingFull-population views, not thin samples.
  • Judgment in the loopThe intelligence illuminates; the human governs.

Findings you can act on: clear, prioritised, with a sequenced remediation path — and decisions the board can stand behind.

  • Prioritised findingsWhat matters first, and why.
  • Sequenced remediation pathA plan management can execute and the committee can track.
Why AdvisoRisK

The chartered practitioner who scopes your work delivers it — not a junior team billed against a partner's name.

  • CIA · CISA · CFEChartered internal-audit leadership on the ground.

Assurance with no conflict of interest, so your board and audit committee can trust the conclusions.

  • No competing service linesObjectivity by structure, not by policy.

Internal audit and governance done deeply — not a generalist menu of everything for everyone.

  • One discipline, masteredGovernance, internal audit, and the assurance beneath them.

A defined methodology, AI-enabled across the audit lifecycle and always human-governed.

  • AI built into how we workThe intelligence illuminates; the human governs.

Built to the IIA's global internal-audit standards, and aligned with CMA, PDPL and NCA expectations from day one.

  • IIA · CMA · PDPL · NCAConformance your committee can point to.

Local presence and GCC fluency, working in Arabic and English alongside your team.

  • Arabic & EnglishBoard papers, reports and workshops in either language.
About

AdvisoRisK is a Riyadh-based governance and internal-audit firm. Deliberately small, deliberately deep: no templates, a solution shaped to your sector, your size and your board.

  • Governance & internal auditAnd the assurance beneath them — nothing else.

Founded and led by a chartered internal auditor with deep experience across listed companies and the financial sector in the GCC — the practitioner you meet is the practitioner who does the work.

  • Senior on the groundEvery engagement, start to finish.

Companies preparing to list, boards raising their governance game, and functions that need to work — across the Kingdom's key sectors.

  • Listed companiesTadawul and Nomu.
  • Family businessesGovernance for continuity.
  • Financial sector & governmentIncluding PIF entities.
Wissam M. Khoury — Founder, AdvisoRisK
Founder's message

For more than twenty years in Saudi Arabia I have sat on both sides of the table — building and leading internal audit, and answering to it. Executive and auditee, adviser and boardroom, listed companies and family groups.

That vantage shows you precisely where the profession breaks: audits that arrive as templates, findings that describe yesterday, functions sized to the org chart rather than the risk — and systems that store documents but carry no intelligence.

AdvisoRisK — and the AI-embedded internal-audit system at its core — was built from that experience: one discipline, senior judgment, and intelligence that works the way auditors actually think. The intelligence illuminates; the human governs.

Wissam M. KhouryCIA · CISA · CFE — Founder, AdvisoRisK
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