Senior Manager. Internal Audit
United Arab Bank
Total years of experience :16 years, 11 Months
Report directly to Chief Internal Auditor for the last 10 months, participated in preparation of yearly audit plan, risk assessment, team members appraisal and managed to train and prepare 4 junior auditors through 2013
Attends Internal Control Committee meetings on behalf of audit management and debriefs audit findings to senior management
Managed to deliver quality and achieve deadlines and was able, through applying highest level of discipline and risk based audits, to decrease branch audit field work durations from 2 weeks to 4 days.
Responsibilities included:
- Resource allocation and management;
- Participating in Bank and department wide risk assessments;
- Preparation of department and process wise audit programs;
- Internal audit reporting preparation and reviewing;
- Discuss internal audit findings and resolve conflicts with management;
- Present and discuss findings to senior management; and
- Detailed review of working papers and deliverables prepared by junior and senior team members throughout the risk assessment, audit execution and reporting phases.
Performed functional performance assessments on different bank division and successfully identified major gaps
Performed number of fraud investigation assignments. Successfully pinpointed fraud practices and identified process and control gaps.
Performed special assignments, process gap analysis, for operational risk management and compliance with BASEL II requirements.
Supervised and managed a large number of risk assessment and internal audit assignments of operational audits for retail banking. Responsibilities were to highlight risks, assess controls, and propose recommendations to regularize root cause for these anomalies.
Assisted the Team Leader in executing a risk based auditing on Saudi Fransi Capital. Responsibilities were to highlight anomalies at the areas brokerage front and back office operations, human resources, governance, legal and audit divisions. In addition perform on job training for one of the team members.
Led a team of 3 internal audit consultants to perform a bank-wide mission on internal accounts reconciliation and insourcing. Each review separately successfully identified and highlighted a number of internal control deficiencies which resulted in major changes in the monitoring of internal accounts and recruitment of insourced staff.
Led a team of 5 internal audit consultants to execute an audit mission on consumer collection department. The audit mission resulted in major changes at the organizational and operational structure of the department.
Participated in quality assurance review performed every 2 years on the internal audit division and actively contributed to the bank-wide review performed by external consultants on improving the Bank policy and procedures.
Played a major role in the bank-wide process improvement, operational risk assessment and internal controls enhancements.
Provide direction and delegate tasks to junior team members, and act as mentor and provide coaching to junior team members