Team Leader - Internal Audit & Analysis
Ruparelia Group
Total des années d'expérience :16 years, 9 Mois
Industry : Hospitality & Real Estate
Manage and conduct audits throughout the organization to identify and develop recommendations for improvement and prepare audit reports for presentation to Senior Management.
Provide advisory services that assist Senior Management to achieve their strategic objectives and improve the operations.
Support Manager, Internal Audit in designing the annual audit plan cycle by identifying the area of business process to audit using a risk-based approach.
Examine and evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls and compliance with current legislation.
Plan and coordinate audits and involve various technical specialists as necessary.
Draft audit services report for Senior Management.
Interact with Mid-to-Senior level Management to discuss issues and recommend improved business practices.
Assist the Manager, Internal Audit in improving the audit methodology to ensure delivery of high quality, professional, cost-effective, and risk-based audit services to all areas of the business.
Industry :- Chemicals manufacturing & trading
Assist Senior Controller for business planning and forecasting process. Target setting and ensuring divisional plans are in line with corporate goals.
Prepare monthly financial reports and variance analysis comparing actuals to latest forecast and budget, and provide insight into remaining forecasted Sales and Expenses and other ad hoc analysis to understand performance trends.
Ensuring budgetary control by close involvement in the divisional budgeting process, communicating budgets, reporting variances and following up on corrective actions.
Assist in Internal & External audit in relation to sales reporting and related accruals.
Develop and maintain relationships with Commercial, Distributors, Supply Chain and Affiliate company personnel in order to facilitate financial activities.
Conducting financial evaluation of projects and business initiatives.
Update and maintain internal control policies (SOP’s), guidelines, and procedures for activities such as budget, forecasting and intercompany reconciliation process.
Competitive Analysis - understand the competitive landscape and perform competitive analysis to decipher relative competitive performance, Investment opportunities, and highlight best practices
Ad hoc analysis - Review financial /statistical data and provide root cause analysis with recommendations to improve operating results.
Develop and maintain financial data to forecast, assess and report on multiple financial transactions
Support month end close/ reporting activities and variance analytics.
Support the annual budgeting and forecasting planning process for each functional area for OPEX/headcount/CAPEX
Responsible for customer profitability statements, margin, and pricing analysis on monthly basis.
Review & analyze P&L in detail (Budget v/s PY v/s Forecast) on daily, monthly and quarterly basis.
Monitor the operating KPI’s and report on deviations to Management group.
Achievement with Henkel: -
Got controlling activity of additional UAE (Polybit) manufacturing plant & Saudi Manufacturing Plant within 6 months from the date of joining.
Industry:- FMCG
Conduct operational, financial and compliance review of department’s operations as per
schedule provided and other than schedule as well, to add value in achieving company's objectives.
Plan as per scope of audits, determine techniques to be used, coordinate and schedule audit activities with the appropriate staff/managers, manage conducting assignments with in-depth analysis and ensure assignment progress within the timelines set. Also ensuring that audits are carried out in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
Appraise Head Internal Audit, with relevant data/information, regarding issues and activities,
though not part of regular or periodic reviews, where weaknesses/discrepancies observed.
Discuss audit observations with concerned staff/manager, draft reports, ensure of maintaining audit working papers and documentation, and support Head internal Audit is finalization of reports in all respect.
Achievement with Quality Group:
Drafted SOP’s for two FMCG sister concern companies within first 3 months of joining and got it implemented
Industry :- FMCG
Audit Plan: Provide professional inputs to the Audit Manager in developing audit plan, programs /
procedures and long-range goals for ensuring completeness and quality in conduct of Operational / Financial Audit.
Internal Control: Review the business process in order to identify the gaps and to ensure adequate
controls are built.
Group Policies and Procedures: Review the approval process to ensure that Group Policies /
procedures and delegation of authorities are complied.
Risk Assessment: Design risk assessment modules in order to establish volume / profit relationship and to identify potential high-risk customers
Audit Findings: Discuss preliminary audit findings with concerned staff / management in order to highlight the observations to management and to get their concurrence.
Drafting Audit Reports: Prepare draft audit reports for enhancing controls in risk areas and to
highlight the shortcomings.
Special Assessments: Perform special assignments including investigation of frauds, irregularities or defalcations on order to establish facts or to evaluate a specific situation.
New Audit Techniques: Keep abreast with current developments that may affect audit and the latest audit techniques, methodologies, tools and procedures to ensure that risks and exposures are identify and adequate control in an environment changing dynamically. Adopting “Financial Risk Control Matrix”, “What can go wrong” in process audits to highlight significant risks in company activities and provide solutions to mitigate risk.
Achievement with Eros Group:
Got promoted within first 2 Years from the date of joining among the team of 5 Auditors
Industry :- Financial Services
Carrying out finalization of accounts, maintenance of cash book, bank book, ledgers, Petty cash books
Liaison with banks, Income tax offices and developed income tax, Service Tax, VAT returns of
different Assesses
Conversant with company accounts, Statements of capital gain, short term & Long-term gain etc.
Assist the Internal Audit Supervisor, in long term and short-term audit planning, at the entity level.
Handled audit engagements from planning to finalization as performed on companies using
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
Achievement with Talati & Talati:
Selected for IFRS & Internal Audit assignment for African Country (Democratic Republic of Congo)
among the team of 45 auditors.
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