Rajiv Menon, Internal Auditor

Rajiv Menon

Internal Auditor

M. H. Alshaya Company - Saudi Arabia

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Diploma, Internal Auditing
Experience
16 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 4 Months

Internal Auditor at M. H. Alshaya Company - Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since May 2016

Financial Auditor with audits done in areas of Payroll, VAT, Projects, marketing, Other incomes.

Internal Audit Associate at Landmark Group - Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2012 to March 2016

Job Description:-
-• Have successfully completed store audits of more than 450 stores across stores in KSA territory and 40+ stores in GCC.
• Assisted internal audit manager in project of Inventory control and Retail back end operation such as GV redemption, Perpetual inventory, daily sales reconciliation, Customer service and safety review.
• To review reports of team members along with working papers before submitting to the auditees.
• Assisted in team to identify and block loops with the limit of Credit notes issued and redeemed and Gift Vouches monitoring.
• To conduct operational risk audit as per predefined checklist and rate the store accordingly.
• Conducted back end operations control check w.r.t Sales reconciliation, Inventory, Customer Grievances,
• To prepare Audit Schedule for a team of 3 members and maintaining details for the completed assignments.
• To identify weakness in process and to bring in more control in order to have a safer and more efficient processes.
• To have discussion with key process owners about their current process weakness and provide viable solution for reducing the same.
• To bring in more automation in order to reduce human errors and bring in more efficiency.
• Assisting my manager to introduce self audit mechanism whereby stores can evaluate their own performance and keep track of their weaknesses if any.
• Assisting in Audit committee presentation which needs to be discussed with audit committee.
• To evaluate current process, the control put in place and identifying residual risk if any.

Process Specialist at INFOSYS BPO LIMITED
  • Other
  • November 2009 to March 2012

Process Specialist (April 2011- Feb 2012)
- Handling issues related to Accounts payable for customer based out in Germany, Austria, Switerzland and Turkey.
- Handling a team of 31 employees who was responsible for handling accounts payable of clients.
- Discussion with process owners based in different countries in order to troubleshoot recurring issues and find solution.
- Involved in bringing in more process improvement which has been more cost effective and has reduced the costs for the client.
- Involved in bringing automation in routine work done by introduction of macros which has resulted in reduction in errors and bringing in more efficiency.
- To do Sox Audits for clients in the field of accounts payable and publish results thereof.
- Assisted in prepation of presentation and explaining the process to various clients from different industry.
- Been awarded the best employee by the client and won numerous client award for work.

Sr Audit Assistant at M/s Jadhav & Co
  • India - Pune
  • August 2008 to November 2009

Conducting Statutory Audit, Internal Audit, Bank Audit, Inventory Audit and Preparation of the reports for the same.
Preparation of Project Reports for availing Bank Loans.
Preparation of Projects for various Educational Approvals from Government of India ( DEC, DE-NOVO, Deemed University Approvals.
Conducting audits of Educational Institutes & Co-operative Societies and preparation of reports for the same..
Filing of Income Tax & E-TDS Returns.
Providing Consultancy for setting up the Internal Control System.
Advising Bank of Implementation of One Time Settlement Scheme (OTSS).

Accounts Associate at Right Move Consultancy
  • India - Pune
  • January 2008 to July 2008

a) Maintaining Books of accounts of a firm of 15 full time employees
b) Filing returns & E TDS

Education

Diploma, Internal Auditing
  • at Institute of Internal Auditors- USA
  • April 2014

Expecting to complete CIA by April 2014

Master's degree, Accountancy & Auditing
  • at Pune University
  • April 2009
Diploma, Accountancy
  • at Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
  • November 2007

Cleared CA Inter in Nov 2007

Specialties & Skills

Auditing
Accounts Receivable
Internal Audit
Risk Control
Accounts Payable
Internal Auditing

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Malayalam
Intermediate
Marathi
Intermediate

Hobbies

  • Reading Books
    Love reading Fiction books. Last read is Hunger Games and Game of Thrones