Abdelghani Al Alami

Advisory Services - Risk, Internal Audit & Governance for key clients in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

• Ensure effective management through monitoring deliverables and engagements financials.
• Coaching junior team members on technical and non-technical aspects.
• Executing engagements that exceeds firm quality standards.
• Developing and enhancing relationships with clients to enable results.
• Ensuring alignment of all project stakeholders on status, challenges and provide solutions where required.
• Enhancing deliverables quality in both languages English and Arabic through implementing global KPMG practices locally.
• Responsible for organizing and managing the engagements internally with the engagement director and the engagement partner as well as externally with the client and the project sponsor.

Emirates Transport (Federal Organization, Leaders in transportation in all over the UAE almost 18, 000 employees & approximate revenue of 2 Billion annually).
• Develop and implement the Enterprise Risk Management policy and framework.
• Conduct, facilitate and manage the annual corporate risk assessments ensuring that results are reported accurately to Senior Management as well as Audit & Risk Committees.
• Develop a robust scoring model tailored to the requirements of the Risk & advisory function and develop Risk Appetite, Risk Tolerance levels and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) with associated thresholds to monitor the associated risks.
• Provide business advice in response to requests from senior management.
• Ensure all polices & procedures go with ISO 31000, got the ISO Certificate (First Federal entity in the UAE).
• Oversight of Risk Events, analysis of root causes, patterns identified, validation of corrective actions and procedural updates.
• Compile the Corporate Risk register and facilitate workshops to evaluate Residual Risk based on the inputs from the Business and Document Mitigation strategies associated with each risk provided.
• Develop risk champion program all over Emirates Transport locations.
• Support risk culture & increase the awareness by making special events and workshops in both languages Arabic & English.
• Identify key risks and mitigating factors of potential investments, such as asset types and values.
• Liaise and actively collaborate with Internal Audit, ERM and other corporate functions contributing to the management of risk, in line with the concept of Three Lines of Defense.
• Develop effective working relationships with Senior Management to ensure that there are clear risk mitigation strategies in place and that the functions are operating as an effective first line of defense.
• Reviewing any new major contracts or internal business proposals.
• Investigate and assess potential risks for assigned projects and accounts.
• Review and assess all reports of suspicious account activity.
• Evaluate the adequacy of the company’s internal control in addressing risks and accomplishing the company’s goals and objectives.
• Support in developing and implementing the Business continuity management (BCM) and contingency plans to manage crises.

•Plan and perform audit tasks as per KPMG Audit Methodology - KAM
•Assure that financial statements are prepared in conformity with IFRS.
•Evaluate internal control environment and assess control risk to obtain sufficient understanding to determine the nature, extent and timing of tests to be performed
•Perform analytical procedures and substantive testing
•Identify risks and apply mitigating controls
•Internal reporting to managers and partners, as well as external reporting to clients and other auditors.

•Through my tenure I was involved in assignments in various industries like:

Union Corporation Society, AGMC (BMW), Al Ghurair Foods & Al Ghurair Retail, Al Majed Industries, Al Tayer Group (Fashion & Jewelry), Arabian Automobile (Nissan), Eisa Saleh El Gurg - United Color of Beneton (Fashion), DUBAL, Expres Printing Services, Rivoli - Hour Choice, Kamal Osman Jamjoom L.L.C Group (Mikyajy, Nayomi), Majed Al Futtaim (Carrefour), Nestle Middle East FZE, Sahar Enterprises (food -Al Kabeer), Pepsi.

•Prepare detailed audit report. GAAS GAAP
•To collect and analyze the data to find out if there is any fraud, violation of laws, regulations and management policies, duplication, etc.
•To inspect the account books of a company for analyzing the transactions and efficiency of the accounting procedures.
•To report to the management of the company regarding the audit results and suggest changes in financial activities and operations of the company.