Abdullah Sami

Review ABK’s compliance framework, policies and procedures to reflect regulatory and
statutory requirements.
• Interpret and advice on compliance matters and issues within ABK.
• Ensure that all external and internal audit observations are handled and the needed
corrective actions related to regulatory compliance are taken.
• Coordinate and draft replies to regulatory authorities on inspection reports.
• Ensure all concerns of regulatory compliance raised by employees are handled.
• Provide compliance training to ABK staff regarding regulatory instructions in Kuwait.
• Ensure adherence to deadlines related to CBK reporting.

- Prepare the company’s budget, periotic forecasts, and build business models as per the business needs.
- Prepare monthly financial analysis for the Finance Director and the Vice-President.
- Review and analyze tender bids for the Commercial Contracting Division.
- Provide decision support to the operations team (Contract approvals and Cost reductions).
- Provide basic finance training for non-finance mangers” .
- Prepare appropriate key performance indicators for the operations team to appropriately measure their performance.

- Communicate with client staff and senior client personnel in order to gather audit evidence, understand processes, and examine relevant accounting issues.
- Prepare documentation on significant business processes and conducted walkthroughs.
- Conduct tests of controls and substantive procedures, including tests of details and analytical procedures to cover audit risk.
- Provide assistance to more junior staff and supervised subordinates
- Ensure engagements and financial statements were in compliance with EY’s Global Audit Methodology, and IFRS and local rules and regulations, respectively.
- Independently carry out and handle audit engagements for small clients from initial fieldwork to financial statements preparation and deliverables, reporting directly to the engagement manager.
- Independently perform agreed upon procedures and reported directly to the manager in-charge.
- Collaborated with other team members to set goals and responsibilities as well as contributed ideas and opinions to the audit team

TAX ACCOUNTANT - ERNST & YOUNG (AL-AIBAN, AL-OSAIMI & PARTNERS)
September 2012 - Present
• Responsible for a portfolio of 40 corporate tax clients and 15 Zakat/NLST clients across different industries including several multinational companies, banks and investment companies
• Assisted with generating statutory format accounts and other related documents for the tax basis financials of large multinational corporations operating in Kuwait
• Assisted in carrying out tax audits and preparing reconciliation between IFRS based accounts and tax basis financials which are submitted along with the tax declaration
• Assist in tax compliance assignments including preparation of tax returns, computing tax provisions, attending tax inspections with the tax authorities and obtaining tax
assessments and tax clearance certificates
• Build and maintain relationships with allocated clients, including providing proactive advice and support to clients
• Research tax legislation, tax treaties and the Kuwait tax authorities' interpretation of various international and corporate tax issues
• Carried out a review of contracts to advise on their implications from a Kuwait tax/commercial perspective
• Created an internal knowledge database for the department and assisted with establishing the policies/procedures for maintaining/updating the database

ASSISTANT ORGANIZER - CAREER FAIR 2011 AT AUK 2011
• Assisted with coordination and execution of the career fair set up (i.e.: tables, chairs, stage, sound equipment) including meeting rooms at the University
• Assisted with distribution of the marketing materials such as flyers/ads for the career fair

SUMMER INTERN - INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ADVISORS
June 2011 - September 2011
• Assisted in analyzing company accounts, profit and loss sheets and cash flow information for various companies
• Conducted market research on the GCC pharmaceutical industry and oil industry
• Assisted with interpreting financial information and writing up financial research summaries
• Prepared client reports to provide them with an update regarding their portfolio values at the end of each market day
• Assisted my supervisor to develop presentation materials for use in client meetings

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

RECEPTION SUPERVISOR - AUK 'THE HANGOUT'
June 2008 - June 2011
• Organized activities/events in the University to promote the level of interaction between students
• Create correspondence/flyers to students, faculty and staff for upcoming events
• Assisted with daily operations including providing equipment/other materials to the students as well as overall supervision of the administrative office
• Collected data related to the attendance at the activity center and based on a statistical review of the data suggested new activities/events to improve the activity center