Michael Jackson Dhassiah, Assistant Manager

Michael Jackson Dhassiah

Assistant Manager

pricewaterhousecoopers

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications
Experience
16 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 5 Months

Assistant Manager at pricewaterhousecoopers
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since February 2010

• Management of a portfolio of 20 Audit engagements including External Assurance and Internal Audit Engagements) related to various industry sectors.
• Planning, scoping, budgeting, resourcing and management of field work delivery.
• Review of fieldwork and presentation of key findings to management along with recommended action plans.
• Coordination and integration of audit results with financial audit team.
• Coordination and integration of audit results with client senior management.
• Documented and evaluated IT processes against best practices and established policies and procedures in place.
• Prepared process questions for interviews with clients regarding their operational duties.
• Assessed process risks and whether they are adequately addressed with available controls.
• Developed recommendations and/or controls to address any process gaps.
• Participated in the eventual implementation and roll-out of controls.
• Evaluated the reliability and integrity of information and the efficient and effective use of resources at the corporate office and client sites.
• Documented and reported findings in presentation and process flow formats.
• Followed up on the progress of implementation of recommendations and directions as necessary.
• Performed data analysis in Microsoft Excel using formulas and pivot tables as required
• Assisted Internal Audit Management to carry out their responsibilities to the audit committee and executive management.
• Provided audit services to a portfolio of diversified clients
• Assisted senior members of the audit and/or consulting team with project management activities from project planning, execution and reporting phases
• Assisted senior members of the audit and/or consulting team with the preparation of project plan and work program based on the agreed scope of work
• Assisted senior members of the audit and/or consulting team with the preparation of reports,
• Presentations and other deliverables summarizing the results of the work performed

Network / Systems Engineer at Xtreme Logique LLC
  • India - Chennai
  • January 2007 to February 2009

Installed and maintained Local Area Network
Managed Domain Controller and Exchange Server
Managed user profiles with proper assignment of rights on resources.
Provided technical support on software and hardware.
Updated Operating System, Antivirus, Service packs and Patches.
Analysis of event logs from domain controllers, media servers and file share and print servers.
Installed and up­graded hardware and software.
Prepared monthly report such as Antivirus, Microsoft Baseline Security Analyser, Event Log Manager

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications
  • at Anna University
  • December 2005

Specialties & Skills

Risk Control
Internal Audit
IT Risk
IT Governance
IT Audit
IT General Controls and IT Management Process Reviews (covering Applications, System Software, Infra
IT Policies & Procedures
IT Risk Assessment and Control Design
Technical database and operating system reviews such as Oracle, Microsoft Sql Server, Linux, Unix an
Internal Audit Assignments covering controls and process assurance in complex satellite control syst
Business Process Review and Documentation
Information Systems Audit
IT and automated controls review related to financial reporting

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

International Systems Audit and Controls Association
  • Member
  • January 2012

Training and Certifications

Networking with Microsoft Products (Training)
Training Institute:
SansBound Institute, Chennai
Networking with CISCO Routers (Training)
Training Institute:
SansBound Institute, Chennai