Assisstant Audit Manager
Arab National Bank
Total years of experience :14 years, 5 Months
Providing rigorous independent assessments of the bank's risk and control.making value added recommendation to help strenghen the control enviroment.implementing a continuous auditing approach and proactive correction action tracking.
Currently, my role is a team leader in the audit assignments of all credit entities of the bank (Corporate Banking, Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking, Private Banking, Credit and Administration Control, and Credit Consultancy Division. In addition, I have participated in all operations entities and many of the bank's subsidiaries and affiliates such as (AHEL, ANBI and SHL).
Job Role:
• Prepare the planning Memo and the risk appraisal prior to each audit assignment.
• Prepare/modify the audit work program to be in line with the audit objectives and scope.
• Assess risks and mitigating controls of the audit entity and raise findings with the root cause.
• Provide value additions recommendations to improve the effectiveness and efficiencies of the controls applied within the audited entity.
• Review and discuss the work with our team member and provide guidelines when I am assigned as team leader.
• Prepare the audit report including the overall risk rating of the audit entity and the rating for each finding.
• Follow-up and validate the status of previous audit findings.
Job Role:
Being a Senior Auditor in the Assurance Department of Ernst & Young, was involved in preparing and leading teams (2 to 3 personnel) for accounting advises,
Agreed upon procedures and audit of annual and quarterly financial statements of the
organizations, joint stock companies, manufacturing/ contracting and trading businesses, consulting firms and other local organizations, in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Responsibilities included:
• Acquiring working knowledge of the client’s businesses.
• Leading audit engagements; through planning, executing and concluding on financial audits.
• Review of compliance with International Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and regulations by the companies being audited and providing them professional advice over their compliance status.
• Assessing risks and internal controls by identifying areas of non-compliance, evaluating
manual and automated financial processes, identifying process weaknesses and inefficiencies.
• Training junior members of staff, keeping managers and partners up to date with progress of
the engagement, raising issues and suggesting improvements as appropriate.
• Proactively interact with key client’s management to gather information, resolve problems and make recommendations for business and process improvements.