Abdulrahman Al-Selaimi, Auditor (Senior)

Abdulrahman Al-Selaimi

Auditor (Senior)

Deloitte & Touche Co. Chartered Accountants

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration in Accounting
Experience
17 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months

Auditor (Senior) at Deloitte & Touche Co. Chartered Accountants
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since September 2012

 Responsible for leading client audit engagements that include planning, directing, and completing financial audits.
 Plan engagements based on the understanding of the client’s business processes and assessment of business and audit risks, supervision of the engagement, review and finalization, including close liaison with client’s management.
 Coordinate with various professionals such as lawyers, independent valuators and information technology experts and make decisions in respect of critical reportable matters.
 Assist clients in preparation of financial statements and group reporting packages in accordance with the applicable financial reporting framework including compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Local corporate laws and directives of regulatory authorities.
 Evaluate internal control systems and risk management procedures, identify weaknesses therein and making recommendations to management.
 Obtaining in depth understanding of the key attributes and processes of the entities and documenting them.
 Performed fully and extensive audit solely for the Company from Planning the audit to the execution and then drafting the financial statements and reviewing the file to the Audit manager and finally signing the financial statements from the Partner
 Manage and deliver smaller audits from planning to completion reporting direct into directors.
 Assessing the entities confarmance with international and national financial reporting standards.
 Obtaining assurance on consolidated financial statements and ensuring their conformity with standards that guide the consolidation process.
 Preparing and discussing correspondences issued at the time of engagement finalization with the management.
 Prepare and critically review statutory accounts to ensure they fully meet company law and financial reporting requirements and regulations.
 Lead client planning and closing meetings.
 Assessing client satisfaction and ensuring that the client receives the highest quality of service from the office.
 Identifying and assessing the key business risks of the group companies and analyzing their affects on the financial statements.
 Work with cross-stream departments including IT, Advisory, Consulting, Zakat & Tax.
 Create and monitor engagement budget hours.

Head at Simens Limited – Arabia Electric Limited
  • Saudi Arabia
  • January 2008 to January 2012

Experience
▪ Review plan cost on each project & compare with actual cost & progress for necessary adjustments
as required with mid-term calculation & keep reviewed OCC data duly signed / approved mid-term
calculation/ minutes of meeting documented. Review remaining plan cost in comparison with
progress completion.
▪ Review regular Billing of WIP to affiliate on CCM projects & billing to third party only once
the delivery is taken place.
▪ Review excess cost on project, check the billing milestone as per contract.
▪ Review the generated revenue, reconcile the figures with copa & income statement.
▪ Review project progress, discuss projects with delay status with technical counterpart for necessary
provision. Also review already created delay provision with its current status.
▪ Review & compare business figures with forecast & ensure the planned numbers are achieved.
▪ Ensure that GR is done for invoices received thru web cycle & invoices > 7 days invoices are close
in Aims.
▪ Check the delivery status of open PO's, discuss with concern technical & amend the delivery date if
required. Irrelevant / duplicated PO to be mark as deleted.
▪ Acknowledgment on Receipt of Goods wither Goods are received in factory, on site, in office must
have acknowledgement. Delivery received note / Goods received note must be signed & stamp by
concern receiving staff confirming its quantity, price, quality & conditions as per quotation / order
confirmation & specification given. Insure that supplier invoice is received with delivery note for
three ways cross check i.e PO, delivery note / GR & invoice.
▪ Ensure that Client's signature has been taken on material delivery, project handover & services
rendered to the customer.
▪ Review excess cost & WIP position on project & bill the cost to customer as per milestone or
deliveries.
▪ Review accounts receivable position for follow-up, checking long outstanding & pay special
attention on A/R > 90 days. Booking the provision if required for long uncollectable outstanding.
Checking billed invoices & its collectibility for cash flow planning.
▪ Review the overheads & compare with budget / forecast & highlight the variances.
▪ Ensure that direct expenses are booked on projects.
▪ Ensure that Time sheet & project management cost is transferred on respective projects.

Assistant Auditor at Business Center
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2005 to January 2006

 Served as a member of audit teams in various industries, performed control test, reviewed financial statements, records, reconciliations, and lead interviews with clients, and development of final auditor report.
 Examines the company's financial statements and provides a written report that contains an opinion as to whether the financial statements are fairly stated and comply in all material respects with GAAP. In addition, some companies also use internal auditors to review the financial reporting processes and internal accounting controls to assure that the company's systems are appropriately designed and operating effectively.
 Apply principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports by compiling information, preparing profit and loss statements, and utilizing appropriate accounting control procedures.
 Performed day-to-day audit works, include the audit planning, control testing, substantive works, reporting and completion.
 Communicated and reported findings to audit managers, partners and client's management.
 Assist with special projects, analyses and other inquiries as needed.
 Assure processes are completely by month end deadlines and coordinate with General Accounting to close the period.
 Financial reporting and internal control reporting.
 Maintained professional communication with various levels of client.
 Making the monthly time sheet and reporting to the Finance Management.
 Draft audit reports for review by the lead partner.
 Performed the planning and identification of risks within the processes and performed test of controls and communicated the deficiencies to the management.
 Ensured proper liaising with all internal and external team members by being focal point for all the communications.
 Analyzed and evaluated potential findings and completeness of scope of work is ensured.
 Reported to the Audit Director and finalized the findings and recommendations and submitted it to the Audit Committee.
 Worked with various level of audit staff and had interactions with board and audit committee members in finalizing the audit and communicating the Audit Summary Memorandum.
 Performed detailed assessment of adequacy and effectiveness of the processes, system of internal accounting controls of clients and compliance with policies and procedures.

Head at Saudi British Bank
  • Saudi Arabia
  • January 2004 to January 2005

:
▪ Prepared cash analysis reports
▪ Maintains a cash drawer; balances and audits the cash drawer according to policy and
schedule.
▪ Supervises other bank tellers and their cash drawers.
▪ Searches for the cause of an overage or shortage when a teller’s drawer does not balance
correctly.
▪ Provides access to the vault and safety deposit boxes.
▪ Replenishes and troubleshoots ATM machines.
▪ Relays information to bank officials; may create reports at the end of each shift for
reference.
▪ Making the deposit, withdraw and transfer activities
▪ Handling the foreign currencies
▪ Reconcile the bank statement
▪ Review the salaries slip of different company’s
▪ Posting the entry in the system, making the adjustment and clear the account via matching
▪ Examined Journal Voucher, General Ledger
▪ Prepared files for internal and external auditors

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration in Accounting
  • at Belford University
  • May 2007
Higher diploma, Department of Commercial Accounting
  • at Institute of Public Administration
  • August 2004

Accounting Trainee as part of graduating Jun'19 to Aug'25 - 2004 at Finance Department of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centers

Specialties & Skills

Administration
Billing
Minutes
MBA Finance
ACCOUNTANCY
APPROACH
AUDITING
DOCUMENTATION
RESEARCH
RISK ASSESSMENT
REPORTS
ACCOUNTING
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
ACCRUALS