PRASANTH KUMAR NARAYANAN NAIR , Senior Internal Auditor

PRASANTH KUMAR NARAYANAN NAIR

Senior Internal Auditor

Hamad Medical Corporation

Location
India - Kerala
Education
High school or equivalent,
Experience
19 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 1 Months

Senior Internal Auditor at Hamad Medical Corporation
  • Qatar
  • May 2010 to October 2017

HMC is the supreme health care provider of Qatar, having a strength of more than 25, 000 employees.

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Supervising and performing end to end audit process right from Risk assessment through audit planning till reporting

•Risk Assessment, Risk rating, and preparation of Risk Based Internal Audit plan and performing Control Self Assessment. Audit programs to test the control objectives, detailed working papers to support the testing, preparation of draft report containing Observations, Implications, Risk and recommendation, discussion of draft report with process owners, preparation of final audit report to management, follow up audit.

•Presenting and discussing audit observations with the Audit Committee and preparing action plans to execute the recommendation.

•Providing expert advice to the Director, and reporting and leading presentations on annual activity plan and achievements.

•Conducted Control Self Assessment (CSA) to evaluate the effectiveness of Risk Management and Control Processes.

•Unearthed serious irregularities leading to financial losses in the outsourcing of manpower contracts for Engineering Department and prevented further losses by timely initiating action to control the damage.

•Unearthed serious frauds in the awardation of IT Projects belonging to Medical Research Center.

•Conducted consulting assignment for mismatch of Payroll Sub Ledger and General Ledger and reconciled the long standing differences running in to millions of Qatari Riyal.

•Independently handled audit planning and execution of financial and operational audits with special emphasis on risk management, internal controls; IT related controls and corporate governance.

•Made valuable recommendations for improvement in the purchase policy of HMC which were accepted by the Senior Management.

•Conducted the review of major contracts, functional specification documents of upcoming projects and other reports before submission to the senior management.

•Unearthed many cases of irregularities leading in to recruitment frauds, procurement frauds and payroll frauds of multiple genres and recommended controls to prevent the recurrence of the same.

•Increased the level and quality of reporting, improving risk mitigation and management

team leader at Ernst & Young
  • Saudi Arabia
  • June 2007 to April 2010

is a global leader in assurance, tax, transcation and advisory services
Roles and Responsibilities:
•Acted as a

Functional Consultant at AGN Mak Ghazali LLC
  • Oman
  • May 2006 to May 2007
Auditor at Shamsuddin& Co
  • India
  • November 2001 to May 2006

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Independently handled internal audit of Non banking Financing and Leasing Companies in accordance with statutory requirements,
•Independently handled process audit of Vehicle finance companies.
•Involved in Statutory audits of wide range of concerns including traders, hotels, trusts and non-profit making organisations.

•Previous Employment - V (Article ship)

Audit Assistant at C.P.Pillai and Company
  • October 1998 to November 2001

Roles and Responsibilities:
•Independently handled statutory audits, tax audits, Bank audits and internal audits.
•Prepared financial statements like Balance Sheet, Profit And Loss Accounts, Cash flow and Fund Flow Statement.

Chief Internal Auditor at M/S Mahalekshmi Group of Companies
  • India
  • November 2017 to

•Expertise in the audit and review of Supply Chain Management- Procurement Tendering covering end to end processes.

•Proven skills in procurement and payroll related investigation & fraud detection and establishing corrective mechanism to prevent the recurrence of the same.

•Expertise in the review and evaluation of high value contracts, Request For Proposals etc.

•Expertise in the audit of high value projects spanning in to multiple years right from the base lining through the performance and post implementation review of the same.

•Proven skill set in identifying and setting right the interface issues between different ERP modules and third party customized application softwares.

•Adept in analyzing voluminous data and converting the same in to multiple audit exceptions and related reviews.

•Proficient in using MS - office (Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint) and data analysis tools like ACL, IDEA etc.

•Adept in working with audit software platforms like ACL-GRC, Caseware etc.

Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young
  • Saudi Arabia
  • to
team leader at AGN Mak Ghazali LLC
  • to

is a firm of Auditors and Management Consultants.It is a member of AGN International U.K

Roles and Responsibilities:
•Independently handled the internal audit of financing companies like Muscat Finance Company, National Finance Company etc.
•Independently handled Valuation assignments for different kinds of companies.
•Involved as a

Education

High school or equivalent,
  • at Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of India (ICAI)ISACA

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High school or equivalent, General Management and Communication Skills
  • at Mahatma Gandhi UniversityGMCSThe Institute of Chartered Accountants of Indi

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Specialties & Skills

Problem Solving
Risk Management
Operational Due Diligence
Supplier Audits
CONSULTING
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
FINANCIAL
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FUNCTIONAL
GENERAL LEDGER
MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR
TAX PLANNING

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