Assistant Manager, Audit & Analytics
Al Rostamani Group Of Companies
Total years of experience :21 years, 3 Months
Key Activities:
- Review of group entities accounts and financial control systems and checking the financial reports to ensure that records are accurate and reliable.
- Conducts surprise audits on retail outlets, warehouses and head office operations of the entities. Surprise audit includes various aspect of the operation such as sales, cash collections and deposits, inventory management, receivable management, fixed assets, fleet management and environmental controls.
- Review of system and access controls to ensure that no users have incompatible access rights and that access to the system is granted on a “need-to-know” basis.
- Perform data analysis on key financial accounts to identify unusual transactions that needed management attention
- Conducts fraud review on areas identified for potential fraud activities to determine the extent of transactions and impact to the company’s operation, if any.
- Reviews incentive payouts and ensuring that incentive paid based on achieved targets in line with the policies and procedures
- Participate in the annual physical inventory counts to ensure that actual inventories matched with the system records
- Ensure that company policies and procedures are correctly followed and complied with and identify any process control gaps and recommends changes to be made, as necessary.
Key Activities:
- Worked closely with the Group Internal Audit Manager to ensure that annual audit plan is achieved by monitoring all audit projects, its timelines and status.
- Conducts annual discussion with the process owners and top management to identify the key risk areas where audit needs to focus.
- Prepares audit reports for the Audit Committee relating to the audit achievements and implementation status of audit recommendations.
- Performs process reviews (i.e., order to cash, purchase to pay, warehouse management and retail operations) across the group and propose improvements in the process, as and when necessary.
- Conducts store visits to ensure that proper controls are in place on sales, collection, cash management and inventory controls.
- Heavily involved in the review and establishment of policies and procedures for AQESA (which includes key business process such as purchase to pay processes, inventory and warehouse management, sales and receivable management, IT Operations and human resources. My job is to ensuring that procedures reflect the current operations of the business while incorporating the best practice in the industry.
Key Activities:
- Quarterly reviews of the financial reports (17Q) submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Surprise audits on Direct Selling Branch Operations which covers review of sales, receivable, collection and inventories handles by the branch.
- Ensure that incentives, commission and bonuses given to sales agents are in line with the incentive programs of the company.
- Conducts periodic review of key financial accounts through data analysis using ACL.
- Perform systems review of SDOS and NOAH Financial Systems and user access controls in SAP covering Financial, Warehousing, Production and Production Planning.
- Reviewed production and production planning process to ensure that inventory are properly managed and that products are produced based on requirements set by the company.
Key Activities:
- Conducts revenue assurance by performing data analysis on the main operations of the company to ensure that there are no revenue leakages between processes.
- Performs data center operations review and ensure that processes are in line with the IT Service Management as defined in the ITIL.
- Monitors implementation of TeamMate and proper use of TeamMate EWP within the audit Team.
- Conducts periodic audit follow-ups on the key audit issues identified and track the implementation status through TeamMate.
- Prepares periodic reports to the audit committee on the achievement of the audit plan.
Key Activities:
- Outsourced/co-sourced internal auditor to major distribution, retail and manufacturing companies in Philippines such as San Miguel Corporation, Ginebra San Miguel, Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines Inc. (CCBPI), and San Miguel Foods Corporation
- Conducted control gap assessment reviews for CCBPI by identifying gaps in the business process and realigning the same with Coca-Cola Atlanta Head Office practices, policies and procedures.
- Performs IT General Controls, Application Controls Review and CAATs using ACL as audit support for financial auditing.
- Assisted an audit client management in its readiness for Sarbanes-Oxley audit
Graduated Cum Laude Consistent Dean's Lister