Abdullah AlShalan SOCPA MBA, Audit Senior

Abdullah AlShalan SOCPA MBA

Audit Senior

GAZT

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
12 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 5 Months

Audit Senior at GAZT
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2017

Auditing and reviewing the zakat and corporate income tax (CIT) to ensure that the taxpayers are committed to the regulation by analyzing the financial statement.
- Investigating and inspecting to ensure that there is no tax evasion of withholding tax, e.g., examining contracts and agreements between the taxpayer and the franchisor.
- Reviewed and analyzed more than 500+ financial statements and discussed with the Taxpayer for any financial deviations and verified the evidence.
Senior SMO VAT auditor at (GAZT) April 2019- October 2019
- Conduct research and access data from different sources (e.g. public news, articles, GAZT's database, shared channels and networks, etc.) to understand SMO’s business activity, including structure, size, process, and revenues, and compare taxpayer's business with benchmarks and similar industries.
- Verify taxpayer’s declarations and supporting documents to assess documents validity and integrity, identify compliance against pre-defined criteria, pinpoint high-risk and speculative issues, and identify grey areas for clarifications.
- Advising the large taxpayers (TPs) to implement VAT from tax registration as step one to submit tax return.
- Support Taxpayers to enhance their understanding and implementing VAT regulation which related to their sectors and how to comply.
- Solving and following up any technical and financial problems has related to VAT law or GAZT procedures.
- Training staff on regulations of Zakat and Income tax.

Planning & Budgeting analyst at Saudi Electricity Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • December 2011 to October 2017

 Business Plan (Strategic Planning)
- Developed business plan (KPI’s, initiative, energy, fuel, headcount, OPEX., and CAPEX) and assure that all plans are aligned with the Strategic direction up to 2030 with different scenarios and assumptions.

 Budgeting
- Prepared of the annual operating budget included KPI’s, initiative, energy, fuel, OPEX and CAPEX
- Uploaded the budget to for each BUs / sectors / departments/ divisions in the SAP.
 Accountability
- Prepared accountability report (monthly/quarterly/ annual) by analyzing the performance data (KPI’s, initiative, energy, fuel, headcount, OPEX, and CAPEX)for 15 business lines and identify the variances and justification
- Submitted accountability report for the company's performance to the CEO and the BoD.

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at King Saud University
  • February 2015

The course structure of the program is composed of three main components with a total of 48 credit hours 1. Analytical Tools Advanced Managerial Analysis Managerial Statistical Analysis Seminar in Managerial Accounting Managerial Economics Information Systems in Management 2. Business Concepts Production & Operations Management Human Resources Management & Organizational Behavior Marketing Strategic Marketing Corporate Finance Finance Decisions 3. Integrative Concepts Entrepreneurship Management Strategic Applied Business Research Global Business Management

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at King Saud University
  • June 2011

The department provides highly qualified human resources in the field of accounting (i.e., financial accounting, managerial and cost accounting, external and internal auditing, zakat and tax accounting, and accounting information systems),

Specialties & Skills

Strategic Planning
Planning
Financial Analysis
Accounting
Excellent communication
Financial analysi
Operational Planning
Professional Knowledge
Ability to work under pressure
Leadership
Strategic Thinking
Teamwork

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Memberships

The Saudi Organization for Certified Public Accountants
  • Fellowship
  • October 2020
The Institute of Internal Auditors - IIA
  • Member
  • October 2020

Training and Certifications

Certified Public Accountants (SOCPA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2020
Strategic planning and business development leadership (Training)
Training Institute:
GTC
Date Attended:
April 2016
Skills for dealing with others in the workplace (Training)
Training Institute:
SEC
Date Attended:
November 2012
The seven habits of highly effective people (Training)
Training Institute:
SEC
Date Attended:
January 2013
Key performance indicators and benchmarking (Training)
Training Institute:
Al-Tawail Management Consulting and Training
Date Attended:
July 2015
Effective communication skills (Training)
Training Institute:
SEC
Date Attended:
September 2012
Report and correspondence writing skills (Training)
Training Institute:
SEC
Date Attended:
October 2012
Planning and control by using budgeting (Training)
Training Institute:
GTC
Date Attended:
May 2015
Planning and continue execution (Training)
Training Institute:
Dar Alruaa
Date Attended:
June 2013
Excellent service (Training)
Training Institute:
SEC
Date Attended:
July 2011
Financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and applications by computer systems (Training)
Training Institute:
IFM
Date Attended:
May 2014

Hobbies

  • Technology
  • Marketing