Risk advisory Manager
BDO
Total years of experience :21 years, 10 Months
The company has bankrupted and is being liquidated.
currently I am working with the liquidator performing agreed upon procedures.
Financial & Business Reporting
• Conducting comprehensive financial analysis of the Real Estate Division; sharing details of major deviations from the budget with the Line Managers and making recommendations to drive consistent improvement in productivity and performance.
• Encouraging Line Managers to utilize the entity wide Enterprise Resource Planning system to keep track of performance and to encourage analysis based decision making based on most recent information as opposed to the traditional experienced based decision making that has become redundant.
Internal Controls & Compliance Management
• Keeping track of internal control procedures to provide reasonable assurance whilst assuring that the Division delivers on it financial and operational KPIs.
• Assuring unscathed business operations by meeting regulatory requirements associated with taxation, filing of returns and other statutory regulations.
• Providing requisite information to external auditors and addressing concerns to the level of their satisfaction to facilitate mid year and year end financial audits; converting their recommendations into action plans for multiple units and monitoring progress to assure continuous improvement in processes and productivity.
• Developing strong relations with tax regulators, accounting regulators and key players in capital markets and other regulatory bodies to fortify operations and financial control systems.
Monitoring & Evaluation
• Promoting a culture of “continuous improvement” by challenging the status quo and recommending alternative strategies to enhance effectiveness of operational activities; evaluating operational progress against established performance targets to assess and rectify any variances.
• Enhancing competitiveness of the Division by implementing industry best practices; organizing training and developing programs to enhance skill sets of employees to make them more valuable for the organization.
• Performs professional internal auditing work.
• Work involves conducting performance, operational, financial and compliance audit projects;
• Providing consulting services to management and staff.
• Providing input to development of the annual internal audit plan.
• Maintains all organizational and professional ethical standards and completes all internal audit work in compliance with The IIA’s International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards).
• Identifying and evaluating the company’s audit risk areas and provides input to the development of the risk-based annual internal audit plan.
• Develops and maintains productive team-oriented client and staff relationships through individual contacts and group meetings.
• Represents internal auditing on organizational project teams and at management meetings.
• Preparing all policies and procedures for the organization
• Organizing and carrying out the internal Audit function including the preparation of an audit plan, that fulfils the responsibilities of the department, scheduling and assigning work and estimating resources needs.
• Review and report on the accuracy, timelines and relevance of financial and other information that is provided for management.
• Review and validate Balance sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis and ensure that proper reconciliations have been performed.
• Conducts audits to verify accuracy of records.
• Compiles audit findings.
I am an Internal Audit Deputy manager on several companies owned by WHG working in several line of business (real state, Food & beverage, Stock Exchange Brokerage) my duties is:
• Performs professional internal auditing work.
• Work involves conducting performance, operational, financial and compliance audit projects;
• Providing consulting services to management and staff.
• Providing input to development of the annual internal audit plan.
• Maintains all organizational and professional ethical standards and completes all internal audit work in compliance with The IIA’s International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards).
• Identifying and evaluating the company’s audit risk areas and provides input to the development of the risk-based annual internal audit plan.
• Develops and maintains productive team-oriented client and staff relationships through individual contacts and group meetings.
• Represents internal auditing on organizational project teams and at management meetings.
• Suggesting standards of control for organizations' policies and procedures.
• Organizing and carrying out the internal Audit function including the preparation of an audit plan, that fulfills the responsibilities of the department, scheduling and assigning work and estimating resources needs.
• Review and report on the accuracy, timelines and relevance of financial and other information that is provided for management.
• Review and validate Balance sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis and ensure that proper reconciliations have been performed.
• Conducts audits to verify accuracy of records.
• Compiles audit findings.
• Perform preliminary planning including understanding the client’s business, accounting process, performing analytical procedures, and determining planning materiality.
• Perform the process of understanding and evaluating the internal control structure in order to asses control risk for the purpose of identifying types of potential misstatements and designing effective substantive tests.
• Prepare financial statements presentation and notes to the financial statements.
• Prepare draft for auditors’report and management letters including recommendations for improvement and finalize them with the audit manager.
• Advice the client for the accounting treatment according to IAS and EAS.
• Perform book keeping services for client when need it.
• Sharing and leading the audit team of the following establishments:
•Boskalis International Egypt
•Industrial Construction and Engineering Company.
•Egyptian Glass Company.
•DaimlerChrysler Egypt.
•Cairo National Automotive.
•Giza National Automotive Company.
•Alkan Pharma.
•Egyptian International Publishing Company “Longman”.
•Oriental Weavers group (Auditing & preparing the consolidated financial statement for the group).
Oriental Weavers for Carpets
Oriental Weavers International
Carpet Technology Center
Oriental Weavers Fibers
Efco Modern Fibers
Egyptian Fibers Co. (Auditing & preparing the consolidated financial statement)
•Egyptian Maritime Transport (Martrans).
•National Automotive company (preparing Consolidated Financial Statements)
I was working as an accountant
Bachelor of Commerce – Accounting Major – May. 2001, Cairo University