Namir Kaissi, GROUP MANAGER, INTERNAL CONTROL AND COMPLIANCE AUDITOR

Namir Kaissi

GROUP MANAGER, INTERNAL CONTROL AND COMPLIANCE AUDITOR

Enova

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
9 years, 0 Months

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GROUP MANAGER, INTERNAL CONTROL AND COMPLIANCE AUDITOR at Enova
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2023

• Assist Internal Control and Compliance Management in conducting risk assessments.
• Perform financial, operational, and compliance audits for assigned projects.
• Prepare the risk/control framework for the entity under review.
• Develop internal controls questionnaires, data analytics tools, audit programs, and detailed work papers.
• Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls, including the risk management process.
• Ensure consistency with departmental standards in all audit work papers.
• Address any weaknesses/concerns with end-users, raise audit exceptions, and recommend corrective actions.
• Determine compliance of transactions with International Accounting Standards (IAS).
• Attending Entrance, Exit and close-out meetings with end-user.

Senior Manager, Research and Consulting at The Asian Banker
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2020 to May 2023

Interviewing, interacting, and marketing to senior professionals, regulators, influencers, IT vendors, management consultants and the community at large.
-Collating data, news, surveys and information in general related to developments in the industries. -Attending news conferences on an ongoing basis in the industries to track current developments and trends.
-Actively contributing written articles, reports and presentation slide to TAB Banker editorial and research products.
-Developing/designing and moderating roundtables, online and in-person dialogues and training programmes, utilizing the insights developed from research.
-Performing market studies and identifying the best practices in the financial services industry in order to perform benchmarking and gap analysis.
-Designing and executing research programmes for clients
-Assessing, evaluating and shortlisting the global financial institutions’ best practices based on current market analysis and their recent developments and technological advancements (including retail finance, transaction banking, trade finance, risk management, compliance, payments, etc…)

Assistant Manager at Protiviti
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2018 to March 2021

Internal Audit, Corporate Governance and Risk Management.

Internal Audit engagements from A to Z which include kick off meeting, process understanding, testing, RCM, audit report and exit meeting

Consultant at Deloitte - Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2015 to February 2018

Risk Advisory working in Internal Audit engagements, Corporate Governance and AML/CTF engagements for Commercial Banks

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at Cardiff Metropolitan University
  • January 2024
Bachelor's degree, Banking and Finance
  • at Lebanese American University
  • January 2015

Specialties & Skills

Risk Advisory
Corporate Governance
Internal Audit
Internal Control
Technical writing
teamwork
Communication

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Certified Internal Control Auditor (CICA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2023
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Certificate)
Governance, Risk Management and Compliance Auditor (GRCA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2020
Governance, Risk Management and Compliance Professional (GRCP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2020

Hobbies

  • Tennis