Sabah Mursal

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 2010 - Present
KPMG, Doha, Qatar
KPMG is one of the largest professional firms in world and one of the Big 4 auditors spanning over 140 countries.
Designation- Audit Senior

Job roles & responsibilities:
Specialised Assignment (Since September 2014):
At Gulf Bridge International (GBI) on a secondment.
GBI is a leading company owned by Qatar foundation, Qatar Investment Authority and Kuwait Investment Authority. The key operation of the company is to deploy and manage a subsea cable system that connects the Gulf countries together and provides onward connectivity to the rest of the world.

Job Description
• Process ledger and booking entries according to stated procedures so that all transactions are recorded in a timely and accurate manner.
• Working on consolidation of 18 group entities.
• Prepare non-routine financial data as requested in order to support management decision-making.
• Ensuring timely recovery of debtors and reporting on any outstanding.
• Processing accounts payable entries and ensure that payments are met on time.
• Preparing cash-flow statements.
• Identify, investigate and rectify routine errors and anomalies in input data in order to ensure accuracy of financial information
• Assisting other team members of accounting department when required.
• Analyse operations of the company and prepare the chart of accounts for ERP.
• Analysis of policies provided by ERP implementation team to seek if any required controls are missing.
• Scrutinize the existing policies and procedures and improve the accounting policies and procedures.

Major roles & responsibilities on clients
• Audit planning and risk assessment.
• Establishing audit objectives, and design and implementation of audit work steps based on Global Audit Methodology and International Standards on Auditing.
• Understand, evaluate and test the design and operation of accounting and internal control systems, offering recommendation for any weaknesses noted.
• Delegate appropriate work to junior members of staff and review their work in a structured format.
• Provide timely feedback to manager or partner in relation to on-going job performance with a view to avoiding surprises.
• Discussion with management audit observations.
• Advising clients on critical issues and other legal and accounting compliances.
• Assisting the client on resolution of accounting/technical issues raised by clients.
• Keep up-to-date with any changes or planned changes to accounting standards or other pronouncements and understand their impact upon the audit strategy.
• Working in coordination with all services to portfolio of clients and delivering a consistent high quality services in timely manner.
• Overseeing accounting operations right up to the financial statements as per the mandatory accounting standards.
• Assessing compliance with regulations and controls by executing audit program steps, examining and analyzing records, reports, operating practices and documentation.
• Preparation of group audit instructions, audit committee presentations.
• Ensuring that the financial statements have been prepared in accordance with IFRS or the applicable financial reporting framework.
• Review and finalization of audit in accordance with the ISA and drafting audit reports, management letters etc.
• Preparation and sending of Qatar Financial Services news update to Bahrain & Qatar KPMG’s on weekly basis on behalf of partner.

Involvement in major Clients:
• Qinvest LLC
• Masraf Al Rayan Bank
• Qatar Financial Centre
• First Leasing Company
• Barwa Real Estate Company
• InterContinental Hotel
• Halliburton Qatar
• Short secondment to RasGas
• Due diligence to Tasweeq
• Qatar rail
• Ras Girtas

Auditor - Moore Stephens International, Kuwait (Jan 2009 - Aug 2010)

• Part of key audit teams, performed good process understanding and test of internal controls of inventory movement, cash & bank payments, fixed assets etc.
• Comparison of actual and budgeted income & expenses and analyzing the reasons for variance.
• Good knowledge acquired for testing internal accounting and control systems, working capital management; dealing with debtors, creditors, and stocks, cash management for optimized benefit to the company.
• Worked well on internal audit and due diligence assignments as a team member.

MAK Associates Chartered Accountants London, UK (ACCA Silver Approved employer)
Audit Assistant
(Jan 2008 - Nov 2008)

Major roles played
• Worked with a wide variety of Clients including Public & Private Companies, Partnership Firms, Sole Proprietorships, and Small & Medium Scale Enterprises etc.
• Reconciliation of Cost & Financial accounting systems, Bank Reconciliations, Ledger reviews etc.
• Book keeping for certain clients up to Trial balance.