Internal Audit & Risk Assurance

Ongoing review of your controls, processes and risk exposure, built to catch weak approval chains and documentation gaps before they surface as findings in your next external audit.

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What’s included

Ongoing review of your controls and processes

Assessment of your risk exposure

Identifying weak approval chains and documentation gaps

Issues caught before they surface as findings in your next external audit

How we work

For growing businesses, this is often the difference between scaling with confidence and scaling with exposure you haven’t noticed yet.

We start by agreeing a risk-based audit plan with management or the audit committee, focused on the processes where weak controls would cost the most, from procurement and payroll to revenue and system access.

Each review ends with clear findings, agreed actions and named owners, and we return to confirm those actions have been implemented, so issues are closed out rather than carried from one year to the next.

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Our approach to audit

Independent assurance that gives boards, lenders and regulators confidence in your financial statements, built on a structured, risk-driven methodology rather than a standard checklist, so every audit reflects the specific controls and cycles that actually matter to your business.

What you can expect

Every engagement ends with recommendations management can act on immediately. Where the work has ongoing implications, we follow up to confirm they’ve actually been put into practice. Where standards are involved, we hold our own work to them fully, so what we deliver stands up under scrutiny from auditors, regulators and investors alike.

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Why It Matters

Businesses in the Kingdom don’t need a firm that only knows the rules, they need one that knows how those rules apply to their specific situation, and can say so clearly. That’s the standard we hold every engagement to.

Saudi Arabia’s regulatory environment moves quickly, ZATCA requirements, e-invoicing mandates, Zakat assessments and Vision 2030-driven reform all shift on their own timelines, and falling behind any one of them carries real financial and reputational cost. Staying ahead of that isn’t optional for a business that wants to keep growing without interruption.

That’s the gap Zento exists to close: minimising regulatory risk, keeping compliance current, and freeing management to spend their time on the business itself rather than on keeping up with the paperwork behind it.