Senior Accountant - Audit & Assurance
RSM Richter LLP
Total years of experience :14 years, 9 months
- Planned, carried out and supervised audits, review engagements, notice to readers and related tax matters.
- Obtain in-depth understanding of the client’s industry and business to identify engagement/business risks.
- Identify expectations, setting the audit approach, optimizing team members' skills and ensuring the assignment is delivered within required time and budget.
- Customized the Case Ware 2009 package for RSM re: dealership clients in the automobile industry
- Independent appraisal of the effectiveness of the policies, procedures and standards by which organization's financial, physical and information resources are managed.
- Organize, plan and carry out the operational audit function.
- Review the systems to ensure that all major risks of the client’s organization are identified and analyzed.
- Analyzed operational and management processes and system controls' effectiveness and efficiency in view to improve them and propose value-added recommendations.
- Helped the clients in improving their operational and reporting processes which resulted in valuable time and monetary savings.
- Respectful and effective communications and relationships with management and staff of areas under review.
- Financial statement preparation by extracting information from client data base using Case Ware.
- Financial analysis of the operational results, budgets and forecasts including cash flows and variances.
- Produce and maintain reports as well as investigate and analyze financial accounts to ensure proper reporting.
- Convert raw financial data into meaningful forms using financial modeling that provides insight into the operations.
- Managed complex accounting tasks efficiently including foreign exchange, consolidation and lease accounting.
- Trained and managed teams for various accounting activities.
- Prepared corporate tax returns using the financial and other relevant details from the clients.
- At GSMP, I reported to the Audit Committee as Manager Internal Audit. GSMP is a non-profit organization working through private and government sectors, improving access to affordable, high-quality health products and services.
- Headed the audit function to ensure design and operational effectiveness of internal control systems and adherence to the approved policies and statuary requirements.
- Developed and monitored the reporting protocols for the company which helped the company in its financial reporting to the foreign stakeholders and external auditors.
- Reviewed audit reports prepared by four (4) internal auditors from thirty (30) branch offices.
- Reviewed the financial statements of the Company on quarterly basis.
- As Supervising Senior - Audit, I managed statutory audits, special assignments, internal control reviews and allied matters.
- Facilitated in training and workshop sessions for seniors and semi-seniors of Deloitte & Touche.
- At P&G Pakistan’s audit, exceeded the client’s expectation consecutively for 3 years and received a Crystal Star from P&G International in recognition.
- Handled clients that belonged to manufacturing, airline, distribution, service and power transmission industries including Procter & Gamble, Alstom Schneider Electric and Pakistan International Airline.
- Secondment to Deloitte & Touche Hungary as supervising senior - audit at its Budapest office.
- Secondment to Deloitte & Touche Saudi Arabia as supervising senior - audit at its Dammam office.
- As Senior - Audit, planned, carried out and supervised statutory audits, internal control reviews and tax matters.
- Handled clients that belonged to manufacturing, automobile and distribution industries including BASF, Eli Lilly, Muller & Phipps and Procon Engineering.