Group Internal Audit Manager
Raya
Total years of experience :17 years, 7 Months
Group Internal Audit Manager & Head, Raya Contact Centers Holding (RCC),
(RCC Holding, RCC Gulf, RCCBM, C3, RCC Europe)
December 2018 - Current
• Established the Internal Audit Department.
• Developed a new group risk assessment model.
• Prepared policies, standard operating procedures, internal controls compliance policies, and risk management.
• Reporting functionally to the Audit Committee and administratively to the CEO.
• Annual preparation of Risk Based Internal Audit Plan (RBIAP), then leading and executing related financial, operational and compliance assignments
• Board presentation of audit reports.
• Preparing Audit Committee regulatory reporting mandates, before sending it to the stock market authorities.
• Work across all operations, HR, legal, finance, commercial and other functions to understand key compliance and audit risks and prepare related audit programs.
• Deliver quality reports that are effectively written with practical, actionable, and value-added recommendations.
• Collaborate with project and global tech teams in developing business compliance controls.
• Prepared a consultancy reports on due-diligence, mergers and acquisitions.
• Developing and evaluating office’s annual audit and special assignments plans and manage audit assignments.
• Preparing risk assessment and authorize assignments initiation and discuss audit reports with management and board.
• Administrated and performed compliance, financial and operational risk based audits and follow ups.
• Reviewing and updating governance policies and procedures.
• Design a new Internal Audit Policies & Procedures Manual including deliverables structure.
• Administrate and assist in restructuring Internal Audit Office.
AOU operates in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Oman, Bahrain and Sudan.
• In charge for Head Quarters audit and follow ups.
• In charge for multi-location assignments (Direct: Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Oman, Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain. Remote: Sudan).
• Administrated and performed compliance, financial and operational risk based audits and follow ups.
• Prepared a new financial policies and procedures for the group.
• Prepared a risk assessment module for the whole group.
• Designed an eight countries enterprise cross culture whistle blowing policy.
• Reported special assignments and investigations.
• Designed and presented internal audit awareness sessions for management and board.
• Administrated and performed compliance, financial and operational risk based audits and follow ups.
• Designed various audit programs for different areas, departments and units.
• Articulated audit reports.
• Examined, analyzed financial records to ensure compliance with different accounting standards (US GAAP - EAS - IFRSs).
• Recommended complex and unique financial and budgetary treatments.
Promoted as an administrator for the internal audit software “TeamMate”.
• Established internal audit department.
• Interviewed, selected and directed internal audit team.
• Appraised budget deviations, license requirements exceptions, operation procedures and fraud inspection reports.
• Lectured upper and middle management about internal audit role and functions.
• Trained the accounting team for selected EAS/IFRSs.
• Liaise with external auditors.
• Presented audit findings to the chairman and managing director.
Title: Assistant Auditor.
Fields: Industrial & Communication
• Audited and analyzed financial records to ensure compliance with matching accounting standards & client policies and procedures.
• Reviewed stand alone and consolidated financial statements.
• Verified and evaluated internal control activities and business cycles.
• Participated in the audit and limited review of the following companies: Orascom Telecom Holding (EAS, IFRS and special requirements reporting package), Sedeco for medical industries, TeleCell International, Petroleum air service (PAS), Motorola Egypt.
• Senior for the following companies: TeleCell International, Cortex.
•Responsibilities: Journal entries and analysis of financial Documents as auditing the balances of the general ledgers and compare it with the relative evidence.
•Audit & Analyses of sales invoices plus reviewing it with the parent company in Germany.
•Coding for accounting software.
•Logistics & Traceability Files.
• Prepared journal entries, analysis of financial documents, auditing the balances of the general ledgers and filed entries with the relative evidence.
• Audited sales invoices and reported deviations to the parent company in Germany.
• Created coding system for the accounting software; and catalogued logistics and traceability Files.
March 2005 enhancing the preparation & allocation of the 1ST ISLAMIC CHAMPIONSHIP in Sudia Arabia. (Support, hospitality & transportation) of the participated Teams.