Internal Audit and Financial Control Director (Large Group)
Confidential
Total years of experience :24 years, 2 Months
- Member of Directors committee - Report to Vice-President.
- Supervision of financial control (Average budget: 150 million US$ per fiscal year).
- Approval of all payment requests.
- Member of projects, procurement and recruitment committees.
- Consulting to Directors and top management.
- Management of audit engagements including 5 subsidiaries.
- Coordination of external audit and consulting engagements mainly with big 4.
AUDIT S. MANAGER
• Managed audit engagements from planning through issuance of opinion. Supervised senior accountants & staff. Designed budgets & audit plans. Handled billing & relationship with clients. Reviewed work papers, financial statements & related footnotes to verify compliance with firm requirements and applicable GAAP and GAAS. Coordinated with tax and other specialists. Reported directly to partners to achieve goals.
• Managed teams from 3 to 11 colleagues.
• Assisted partners in proposal and client acceptance process to acquire new clients and fees increase.
• Facilitated national training seminars and assisted in local training.
• Assisted with on-campus and experienced hire recruiting efforts.
• Evaluate performance at the end of each engagement and participate in the annual promotion meeting for Seniors and staff.
• Received Performance Awards for demonstrated efforts.
Portfolio mainly includes Saudi Real Estate (Listed), Arab Gulf Fund For Development (AGFund), Saudi Organic Farming Association, ARASCO, Saudi White Cement, Al Rajhi Contracting and real estate entities (Al Arrab, Getco, Semeco, Land and Injaz), National Medical Care (IPO), Water Electricity Company, Shell, Saudi White Cement, China Communications Services, Middle East Environment Protection, Saudi Hotels Services, Saudi Equestrian Fund, Al Jammaz Group (Dominos Pizza Middle east), Middle east Environment Protection Co, Al Majal Arabi, Building Material Trading Co (Saudi Oger Group), Warehousing Logistics Services Co.
Major engagements:
• Dow Chemicals (70% of my working time): Member of the European engagement central team. In charge of US GAAP and Statutory audit of European subsidies in France, UK, Spain, Germany, Portugal and in South Africa;
• In charge of Middle East Joint ventures audit as MEGlobal and Equate (IFRS and statutory).
• In charge of European Sarbanes Oxley procedures.
• US GAAP accreditation: Working Knowledge.
• Various subsidies of multinational firms mainly from US, Japan, India, Germany, Austria, Norway and France as Blackstone health business, TATA, Mitsubishi, Pumps Grundfos and Fossil.
• Numerous financial consulting missions as CFO replacement, subsidiary shutdown management and budget building.
Leading audit teams for:
- Various national and international clients.
- Clients from various sectors: Industries, banking, insurance.
Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A) Board of Accountancy - New Hampshire (license N 7219).
The goal of these studies is to prepare finance and auditor managers.
Accounting and finance thorough studies.
The first High business school in Morocco
