Audit Supervisor
Grant Thornton
Total years of experience :18 years, 9 Months
I’m audit Supervisor at Grant Thornton - Dubai. My responsibilities are as follows:
• Coordinate the various planning phases of an engagement, including staff requirements, scheduling and the assignment of work to be performed by others;
• Review engagements and representation letters;
• Review the audit or other work programs and time budgets;
• Monitor each engagement to ensure that work is proceeding on schedule;
• Perform the most difficult phases of the work on larger and more complex assignments;
• Review and evaluate all work papers and determine compliance with professional standards and Firm policies;
• Make sure all documentation as required for Quality Control and Peer Review are included on all the assignments;
• Review reports and financial statements;
• Review management letter;
• Review with the engagement partners any critical area or significant findings that raise questions involving accounting principles, auditing standards and Firm policies;
• Prepare and discuss staff performance evaluations on all staff under my supervision;
• Be involved in some Practice Development type activities;
• Be responsible for completing client work on timely basis;
• Be responsible for billing to and collection from client;
• Delegate duties to subordinates and provide training;
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with client management.
I have joined GT internal audit/Business risk services department during the non-busy season of the past two years and I have done a variety of assignments and my responsibilities were as follow:
• Preparing the audit program checklist
• Performing audit procedures
• Risk assessment procedures
• Identifying all the controls issues and the impact of each
• Proposing our recommendation to the management
• Preparing the audit report
• Discussing the audit report with the management
07/2008 to 01/2013
I was a senior auditor. My responsibilities were as follows:
Handled various aspects of financial audit and experienced as senior auditor in charge of audits in a project management capacity;
Performed day-to-day audit works, include the audit planning, control testing, substantive works, supervision of junior staffs, reporting and completion;
Responsible for developing the engagement approach which included qualitative and quantitative analysis, and evaluation of industry and business risk;
Financial reporting and internal control reporting;
Skilled in staff supervision and development; as well as records and file management;
Responsible for various administrative tasks, such as budgeting, billing, work paper fillings;
Maintained professional communication with various levels of client;
Communicated and reported findings to audit managers, partners and client's management.
09/2005 to 07/2008
As an audit, I have participated in achieving the following professional accounting & auditing work:
Analyze, evaluate, and create the working environment encouraging;
Conduct interviews and research, make detailed investigation, and collect the data for analysis;
For accomplishing the audit develop the risk control formulas;
Reviewing the work of audit team;
Obtaining documentary evidence to support important audit issues;
Discuss the finding and proposed entries with the client management;
Preparation/review of financial statements.
