Ali Abdulghaffar, Senior Internal Audit

Ali Abdulghaffar

Senior Internal Audit

Bahrain Airport Services

Location
Bahrain
Education
Master's degree, Management
Experience
10 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 5 Months

Senior Internal Audit at Bahrain Airport Services
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • October 2009 to February 2013

* Oct 2009 to Date: Bahrain Airport Services
Senior Internal Audit
Main responsibilities:
- Lead Internal Audit activities such as examining and evaluating effectiveness and adequacy of all the internal and external control systems.
- Review management and financial information systems, review accuracy and reliability of the accounting records and financial reports, review means of safeguarding assets and efficiency of the operations.
- Ensure that policies and procedures are in compliance with the overall business objectives.
- Conduct special investigations as and when required by the Risk & Audit Committee.
- Ensure compliance with polices and procedures.
- Liaise with legal advisors, external auditors.
- Prepare annual internal audit plans.
- Direct the implementation and execution of the annual internal audit plans.
- To motivate, train and develop the internal audit team.

Assistant Manager, Internal Audit Division at Gulf International Bank B.S.C
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • July 2005 to August 2009

* July 2005 to August 2009: Gulf International Bank B.S.C - Manama, Bahrain
Assistant Manager, Internal Audit Division

Main responsibilities:
- Planning and managing internal audit examinations of the following areas (within the head office as well as overseas branches):
- FX and Money Market
- Securities
- Derivatives
- Islamic Banking
- Credit Administration and Analysis
- Loans
- Trade Finance
- Internal Controls
- Financial Controls
- Risk Management (Credit Risk, Market Risk, Operational Risk)
- Compliance
- Administrations
- Structured Finance
- Investment Banking

In addition to: - Preparing and updating audit programs for above mentioned areas as well as newly introduced products and services.
- Ensure regulatory requirements for Central Bank of Bahrain and other regulators (for overseas branches) are complied with.

Officer at Loans Operations Department
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • November 2003 to July 2005

* November 2003 - July 2005: Gulf International Bank B.S.C- Manama, Bahrain
Officer, Loans Operations Department

Main responsibilities:
- Supervise and control daily processing function ensuring that excellent relationships with the borrowers and the Agent banks are maintained.
- Responsible for planning and directing all activities assigned the area.
- Coordinate with staff as necessary, in order to maintain an efficient level of co-operation with all marketing officers.
- Ensure staff matters are given priorities.
- Provide necessary training opportunities to the staff as and when required.

Projects manager, IT Department at Metatec International Inc
  • United States
  • June 2002 to July 2003

* June 2002 - July 2003: Metatec International Inc- Dublin, Ohio, USA
Projects manager, IT Department

Instructor, Management Information System Department at Wright States University
  • United States
  • September 2002 to June 2003

* September 2002 - June2003: Wright States University- Dayton, Ohio, USA
Instructor, Management Information System Department


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* A member of Ohio Society of CPA's
* A member of the Delta Sigma Pi honor fraternity.

Education

Master's degree, Management
  • at Wright State University
  • September 2007

* September 2007: Wright State University- Dayton, Ohio, USA MBA (Concentration in Management) GPA 3.8

Bachelor's degree, Accounting and Management Information
  • at University of Dayton
  • August 2002

* August 2002: University of Dayton- Dayton Ohio, USA BSC Majors (Accounting and Management Information system) GPA 3.76

Specialties & Skills

Internal Audit
Audit Management
Banking Operations
Audit Committee
Operational Strategy
BANKING
DERIVATIVES
FINANCE
INTERNAL AUDIT
INTERNAL CONTROLS
INVESTMENT BANKING
TRAINING

Languages

Arabic
Beginner
English
Beginner

Memberships

A member of Ohio Society of CPA's
  • member