Ahmad Abou Hawili

• Develop annual audit plan and coordinate audit activities.
• Perform audits for business operations, finances, compliance with policies
and procedures.
• Supervise audit team to ensure quality and on-time delivery.
• Evaluate performance of audit staffs and provide appropriate feedback.
• Assist in risk assessment and mitigation activities.
• Organize trainings for audit team for skill development.
• Coordinate with team to review audit findings.
• Prepare reports with audit findings and recommendations.
• Assist in developing budgets and timelines for upcoming audits.
• Evaluate and enhance internal controls to improve operational efficiency
• Communicate audit status to management on regular basis.
• Discuss with management about audit observations, recommendations
and actions to be taken.
• Prepare clear and complete audit work papers and store them in
department repository.
• Analyze and resolve audit issues in a timely basis.

• To conduct the audits of clients of the firm, and report to the
Manager/Director of any critical issues identified during the course of the
audit, as well as ensuring that the work is done in accordance with the
GT Audit Methodology.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client
personnel and assess
clients satisfaction.
• Adapt the audit approach to the changing client environment.
• Monitor engagement economics by identifying and explaining variances
from plan.
• Monitor component progress to ensure expectations are met through
initiating discussions with service team and obtaining on-going feedback
from client.
• Use current technology to research and analyze issues.
• Conduct interactive interviews to obtain and clarify perceptions, define
issues, assess options
• and gain consensus.
• Prepare initial draft of reports or other client and external communications.
• Collaborate with other team members of the engagement team to plan the
engagement and develop work program timelines, risk assessments, and
other planning documents.
• Communicate ideas/opinions and information to the audit teams and
listen/respond to other
• team members views.
• Foster an efficient, innovative, and team-oriented work environment.
• Direct fieldworks daily, inform Manager/Director of the engagement
status, and manage staff performance.
• Develop people through effectively delegating tasks and providing
guidance to staff.
• Share knowledge with team members (e.g. share best practices,
provides on-the-job training).
• Develop an understanding of the firms service lines and actively
seek/encourage team
members to contribute ideas and identify opportunities to apply the firms
services.
• Make recommendations that reflect understanding of generally accepted
auditing standards
and risks inherent to clients business/industry.
• Effectively and proactively utilise basic capabilities of audit technology
tools and other firm standard technologies to perform and document
work in assigned areas.
• Develop understanding of client industries and identify value added
recommendations.
• Responsible to the engagement manager for day to day client contact
and conduct of audit work.
• Any other task reasonably assigned to the staff member and within their
skill set.

• Plan, develop strategies and supervise fieldwork in all phases of an
audit engagement.
• Ensure compliance with internal (RSM audit methodology) and
external (regulatory) requirements.
• Carry out substantive audit procedures over various income statement
and balance sheet accounts.
• Frequently perform analytical procedures to identify unusual or
unexpected trends in relation to expectation and performance.
• Conduct internal control test work and perform walkthroughs to ensure
compliance with COSO framework.
• Identify risk matters and present.
• Work closely with staff on practice development and client
management.
• Research technical issues that arise during an engagement.
• Inform for any issues or observations during the audit fieldwork and on
any audit cycles.
• Produce reports highlighting issues and providing potential solutions.
• To prepare samples of transactions to be vouched and traced for each
cycle.
• Report issues immediately to the engagement team and collaborate to
resolve them.
• Supervise, coach and develop junior members of staff within the team.
• To be involved on all fieldwork.
• Prepare financial statements and require disclosures in compliance
with policy and regulations.
• Others matters as mentioned below;
◦ Assist Audit Senior in follow up of time table agreed with clients;
◦ Assist Audit Senior in the preparation of analytical reviews from
Trial balance and other information received from the clients prior
to the planning meeting for discussions on any significant variances
and design of suitable audit procedures;
◦ To be fully prepared for discussion with Audit Senior on
impact of standards
(accounting and audit) effective for annual periods as applicable
having impact in the financial statements and update IFRS checklist
for each audit cycle;
• I have performed audit on small and large size Companies with
different industrial operation, such as Investment, Contracting, and
Retail etc. Some of clients names that I have worked on are

• Performed risk assessments to various departments across different
industries.
• Evaluated controls over financial and operational processes to ensure
compliance with applicable company policies, CMA laws and
regulations.
• Completed audits on various departments including Accounting and
Finance, Corporate Finance, Operations, Investments, Project
Management, Real Estate, Constructions, Compliance, Human
Resources, Public Relations, Marketing, Legal, and Funds.
Furthermore, the sectors concentration are as the following, industries,
manufacturing, contracting, Real Estate, Investment, and Brokerage
companies and including KFH Bank.