Abdulqader Ahmed

• Ensuring accurate, transparent, consistent, and timely financial accounting records and reporting submissions, in full compliance and other corporate and legal standards and IFRS(3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 16…etc).
• Compliance with all company & local legal, VAT, Zakat, income, withholding taxes and audit requirements while optimizing structural set-up /risk profile.
• Drive corrective action to improve performance against all major financial metrics, collaborate to execute and achieve favorable results for all business programs.
• Development of the 5-year and annual operating plan for KSA entities, including direct & indirect budgets and forward pricing rates, evaluate, provide guidance on, and approve program estimates at complete.
• Ensuring that effective internal controls are established, maintained, and monitored throughout the company, and understood by all stakeholders.
• Take a lead role in maintaining strong "Tone at the Top" and maintaining a culture of FCPA and Ethics Compliance, and to drive continuous improvement to financial processes and controls.
• Perform Operations Management activities in support to the upper managements.
• Taking hands-on lead position of developing, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive job-costing system.
• Monitor changes in Kingdom laws and initiatives, collaborate with KSA Leadership to ensure compliance are maintained annually, including Labor Law, Wage Protection, Nitiqat, HRDF, GOSI, SAGIA, ZAKAT, etc.
• Collaborate with various functional departments to improve overall KSA processes.

• Partnered with the Audit Committee & Senior Management.
• Performed periodic risk assessment and developed the Johnson & Johnson’s COSO & SOX internal audit plan with adherence to International Standards on Auditing (IAS).
• Prepared periodic Audit Committee presentations and coordinated Audit Committee agenda items.
• Conducted internal control, risk management and fraud awareness sessions.
• Identified risks within the business process been audited and the overall risks faced the organization.
• Conducted internal audit engagements as per the approved internal audit plan.
• Supervised engagements assigned to the internal audit team (as needed), mentored and led them in achieving various audit objectives.
• Examined, evaluated, and reported on the design and the operating effectiveness of the Johnson & Johnson’s system of internal controls.
• Ensured that the audit procedures performed are well documented and supported.
• Ensured that the findings or audit observations were well supported by audit evidence and were agreed by the auditee.

• Handled full spectrum of accounting role for example: Accounts receivable, Accounts Payable, & General Ledger.
• Managed all cash flows; ensure vendors and creditors are paid correctly and on time, and that the company is also paid correctly and on time.
• Prepared monthly depreciation and standard accruals.
• Prepared monthly bank reconciliation & made sure there was nothing suspicious.
• Helped in building sound financial models.
• Prepared periodic vendors & helped in customers reconciliations.
• Reviewed and recommended modifications to accounting systems and procedures.
• Participated in financial standards setting (Implementation of IFRS) & in forecasting.
• Prepared monthly depreciation and standard accruals.
• Reviewed and recorded vendor invoices.
• Adhered & managed Saudi financial laws compliance, ensured compliance with, and adherence to Saudi financial laws and regulations (Zakat, income tax & withholding tax).