Head of Unit - Internal Audit Department
United Arab Bank
Total years of experience :14 years, 0 Months
Head of Unit - Retail Banking, Legal, Corporate Governance and Customer Experience Audit.
Governance, Risk & Assurance
• Conduct interviews and review documents in order to prepare working papers for the internal audit purposes. • Design and supervise the execution of the tests of controls. • Ensure that internal Audit operational expenses are within budget 100% for the whole year • Ensure that work programs aligned with engagement scope and requirements. • Ensure that audit issues and recommendations are identified and documented using independent judgment. • Ensure that internal Audit processes are complying with QIB and QCB policies and procedures. • Identify and evaluate the finance, treasury, and investment risk areas and provide key input to the development of the Annual Audit Plan. • Perform audit procedures, including identifying and defining issues, developing criteria, reviewing and analyzing evidence, and documenting audited processes and procedures. • Prepare an audit approach that describes in details the nature, timing, and extent of our internal audit procedures for an individual audit project. • Prepare and review operational reports and schedules to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
•Participating in auditing various enterprises with different sizes and nature of businesses and understanding of how business strategy is formulated.
•Participating in preparing the audit planning and identifying the engagement risk.
•Participating in preparing the proper documentation for understanding the Flow of transactions (Fixed Assets/ Payroll / Expenditure / Revenue / Inventory) and process professional audit procedures to ensure proper control over each business cycle.
•Preparing the substantive testing regarding the potential error, and getting assurance that the accounting books have been maintained as per the International Accounting Standards.
•Participating in preparing the financial statements in compliance with the International Financial Reporting Standards.
•Participating in preparing the reports to identify internal control weaknesses for submission to company executives.
•Discussing the senior/supervisor in-charge all the matters during the field work and raise the points in advance to be discussed and solved with the client’s management.
The following are the major engagements I had been assigned to audit their financial
Statements at Doha office:
1) Qatar Foundation.
2) Al-Kaliji Bank.
3) Ali Bin Ali Group.
4) Regency Group.
5) MAN Enterprise
6) Qatar Olympic Committee
7) Tax Department
8) General Electric.
9) Oman Insurance
10) Texas University.
11) North Western University
12) Qatar French school ( Voltaire Qatar )
•Responsible for monitoring and rehabilitation of delinquent and over-limit accounts and to minimise delinquent accounts and contain flow through to the next cycle.
•Resourcefulness in securing Promises to pay.
•Creating a professional and friendly environment providing fast, flexible and efficient service to the customers.
•Follow up with customers for all outstanding payments and identify problematic email, phone or fax in order to achieve prompt cash collection.
•Responsible for performing recovery activities regarding delinquent accounts in accordance with Bank and legal guidelines
•Participates in the early, mid or late stages of the collection process to include loss mitigation, repossessions, charge-off, and recovery.
•Perform skip tracing activities by contacting external agencies, home country, employer and remaining sources.
•Determine when collections have not produced any effect and refer them to legal department to take suitable legal action.
•Explain legal obligations along with associated penalties for the non-payment of owed debts.
•Determine and verify the debtor’s earnings, employment, assets, liabilities, and his/her paying ability.
•Assisted with month-end closing and financial statement preparation
•Made adjusting journal entries and posted them to the general ledger.
•Prepar the payments after checking the accuracy of the data appearing in the claims requests based from the source documents.
•Performed bank reconciliations and other balance sheet reconciliations.
•Presents written and oral reports on a wide variety of human resources related issues.
•Maintain an accurate and effective filing system.
•Performed full cycle, high volume accounts payable transactions in Pentasoft Financial System.
•Prepared projection reports & expense analysis reports as requested.
•Assisted Senior Management with ad hoc reports and special projects.
•Performed accounts payable & accounts receivables research and reconciliation.
•Served as the primary contact for business units and vendors.
•Provided excellent customer service to internal and external staff and managed vendor & customer relationships efficiently.
•Resolved accounts payable discrepancies in a timely and accurate manner.
•Assisted in quarterly and year-end audits.
•Handled the receipts issuances and receipts cancellations for SABB Takaful collection department.
•Performed and monitored the refund process to the customers.
Fundamentals of Corporate Credit
Certified Internal Auditor