Head Of Internal Audit
Gulf Union Cooperative Insurance Co.
Total years of experience :16 years, 0 Months
Leading the Internal Audit Function
- Providing Risk Based Internal Audit Services to PwC Clients
- Internal Audit Project Manager for a Trading and Contracting Company in the Eastern Region
** A new role, with a big ambition for Sustainable Development in Saudi Arabia!
- A team player in a country wide initiative with the goal of building sustainability awareness in the corporate level and assisting companies in moving forward with developing and implementing sustainability strategies
- Prepare training material and education on environment and sustainability topics
- Provide implementation and project management support with sustainability initiatives
** Gradually promoted from "Advisory Consultant 1" to "Advisory Consultant 2" to "Advisory Senior Consultant".
- Planning of audits, initial meetings with clients to understand their expectations and establishing audit approach and work programs after assessing the audit risk associated with the client
- Performing risk assessment for major processes for the purpose of identifying design deficiencies
- Providing risk advisory services to various clients across Saudi Arabia
- Reviewing business processes of the clients to identify risks, investigating their root causes and recommending controls to mitigate these risks. These processes include, but not limited to, Finance, Sales, Procurement, Human Resources, Warehousing, Raw Materials, Maintenance, and operations
- Analyzing existing controls to ensures that these controls are functional and adequate
- Reviewing operational procedures and guidelines, and ensures that such procedures conform to top leadership's instructions, industry practices and regulations
- Writing internal audit reports to summarize and present the identified issues and the recommended controls
- Audit Committee Presentations to communicate the audit results and management action plan
- Supervise and conduct quality reviews
- Involved in Financial Fraud Detection for many clients
- Training the employees of various clients on business fraud awareness and Code of Conduct compliance
- Involved in the design phase of issue tracker software that was subsequently presented to a major client
- Yearly follow-ups with clients to assess the implementation of the recommended controls