Marbet Sarte

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities:
• Lead, planned and performed compliance and operational audits for different operating companies and business units across Middle East region (includes head office functions and stores)
• Prepared draft and final reports including root causes, recommendations, key risks and controls, and discussed / agreed with the Management
• Authored and updated audit programs for every engagement
• Conducted surprise visits and control self-assessments for stores
• Performed implementation review / follow-up audits to ensure implementation of agreed recommendations
• Involved in investigations related to fraud
• Participated in inventory counts for new business acquisitions

Key Achievements:
• Recommended changes in controls of Beam that resulted in AED 4.2B savings (recommendations adopted by Management)
• Exposed possible third-party fraud during the review of Business Development and Delivery function in 2016
• Pioneered in incorporating data analysis in audit projects resulting to valuable root causes and recommendations starting 2017
• Designed control self-assessment questionnaires for head office functions in 2020
• Earned ‘High Contributor’ performance ratings on an annual basis

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities:
• Prepared quotations and estimated Profit and Loss statements for retail and large-scale projects
• Recorded sales and purchases in Navision system for all confirmed quotations
• Liaised the confirmed quotations with the suppliers including final prices and actual delivery periods
• Summarized quotations data to assist Management in decision making and strategy
• Prepared petty cash expense reports on a weekly basis
• Updated stock price lists in Navision system based on the current market prices

Key Achievements:
• Solely handled the Meraas Office project from sourcing, pricing to procurement
• Negotiated the costs with the suppliers for confirmed projects leading to increased margin of 10-20%
• Set-up the sales reports using MS Excel that facilitated quotation recording and monitoring

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities:
• Performed regulatory compliance and operational audits in various stores across the Philippines
• Performed IT general and application controls review for store IT systems (i.e. SWEDA and ANSI
• Drafted reports and discussed with Line Management
• Provided consultancy services in system design to ensure existence of adequate audit trails and controls in the implementation of new or modified IT systems (User Acceptance Testing phase)

Key Achievements:
• Recommended store process improvements that were adopted by Management which prevented tax regulatory fines
• Reported an erroneous recognition of overtime hours in the timekeeping system that prevented labor penalties in 2011

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities:
• Performed IT general and application controls review for various insurance companies and banks
• Drafted reports and discussed with Line Management

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities:
• Handled the billing, collection and reconciliation of Forwarder’s Fee of different service business units and third parties
• Recorded all purchase invoices and payment vouchers in Trigon system
• Prepared GL accounts analysis at month-end
• Prepared monthly bank reconciliations