diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6b8c4b1491..aa13fbafb1 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -440,19 +440,6 @@ else()
 	message(STATUS "bluez explicitly disabled, disabling bluetooth support")
 endif()
 
-if(ENABLE_PULSEAUDIO)
-	check_lib(PULSEAUDIO libpulse pulse QUIET)
-	if(PULSEAUDIO_FOUND)
-		add_definitions(-DHAVE_PULSEAUDIO=1)
-		message(STATUS "PulseAudio found, enabling PulseAudio sound backend")
-	else()
-		add_definitions(-DHAVE_PULSEAUDIO=0)
-		message(STATUS "PulseAudio NOT found, disabling PulseAudio sound backend")
-	endif()
-else()
-	message(STATUS "PulseAudio explicitly disabled, disabling PulseAudio sound backend")
-endif()
-
 if(ENABLE_LLVM)
 	find_package(LLVM)
 	if (LLVM_FOUND)
diff --git a/CMakeTests/FindPulseAudio.cmake b/CMakeTests/FindPulseAudio.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6046898cc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CMakeTests/FindPulseAudio.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# - Find PulseAudio library
+# This module defines
+#  PulseAudio_INCLUDE_DIR
+#  PulseAudio_LIBRARIES
+#  PulseAudio_FOUND
+#
+# vim: expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4:
+
+include(FindPkgConfig)
+pkg_check_modules (PulseAudio_PKG QUIET libpulse)
+
+find_path(PulseAudio_INCLUDE_DIR NAMES pulse/pulseaudio.h
+  PATHS
+  ${PulseAudio_PKG_INCLUDE_DIRS}
+  /usr/include/pulse
+  /usr/include
+  /usr/local/include/pulse
+  /usr/local/include
+)
+
+find_library(PulseAudio_LIBRARIES NAMES pulse
+  PATHS
+  ${PulseAudio_PKG_LIBRARY_DIRS}
+  /usr/lib
+  /usr/local/lib
+)
+
+include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
+find_package_handle_standard_args(PulseAudio
+                                  REQUIRED_VARS PulseAudio_LIBRARIES PulseAudio_INCLUDE_DIR)
+
+if(PulseAudio_FOUND)
+  if(NOT TARGET PulseAudio::PulseAudio)
+    add_library(PulseAudio::PulseAudio UNKNOWN IMPORTED)
+    set_target_properties(PulseAudio::PulseAudio PROPERTIES
+      IMPORTED_LOCATION ${PulseAudio_LIBRARIES}
+      INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${PulseAudio_INCLUDE_DIR}
+    )
+  endif()
+endif()
+
+mark_as_advanced(PulseAudio_INCLUDE_DIR PulseAudio_LIBRARIES)
diff --git a/Source/Core/AudioCommon/CMakeLists.txt b/Source/Core/AudioCommon/CMakeLists.txt
index cfcd4be569..7c3fd3363a 100644
--- a/Source/Core/AudioCommon/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Source/Core/AudioCommon/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -60,9 +60,20 @@ else()
   message(STATUS "OpenAL explicitly disabled, disabling OpenAL sound backend")
 endif()
 
-if(PULSEAUDIO_FOUND)
-  target_sources(audiocommon PRIVATE PulseAudioStream.cpp)
-  target_link_libraries(audiocommon PRIVATE ${PULSEAUDIO_LIBRARIES})
+if(ENABLE_PULSEAUDIO)
+  # PulseAudio ships with a PulseAudioConfig.cmake with no imported target
+  # So we use our own FindPulseAudio instead with "MODULE"
+  find_package(PulseAudio MODULE QUIET)
+  if(PULSEAUDIO_FOUND)
+    message(STATUS "PulseAudio found, enabling PulseAudio sound backend")
+    target_sources(audiocommon PRIVATE PulseAudioStream.cpp)
+    target_link_libraries(audiocommon PRIVATE PulseAudio::PulseAudio)
+    target_compile_definitions(audiocommon PRIVATE HAVE_PULSEAUDIO=1)
+  else()
+    message(STATUS "PulseAudio NOT found, disabling PulseAudio sound backend")
+  endif()
+else()
+  message(STATUS "PulseAudio explicitly disabled, disabling PulseAudio sound backend")
 endif()
 
 if(WIN32)