Salah A Mohammed Al Balooshi

As a diversified organization, Al Futtaim brings the quality and reputation of more than 200 companies across the world with Al-Futtaim’s 42, 000 employees in various sectors such as automotive, retail, real estate and finance.

During my tenure with Al Futtaim, I have gained necessary skills and experience on Auditing/Investigations by using SAP Sales Documentation, Material Management, Purchasing, Finance & Investment and HR. I also highlighted significant findings with the help of analytics on Audit Command Line (ACL), MS Excel and Tableau.

I have conducted the consolidated Annual planning and Risk assessment of Al Futtaim Group (Engineering and Retail Divisions). Furthermore, I have also performed Internal Tax Audits at Al Futtaim Group.

Lead audits of functions such as Governance, Compliance, Internal Controls, Risk Management, Credit (corporate and retail), Liquidity and Treasury.
● Determine the audit scope, risk assessment and review mechanisms in conjunction with Senior Manager - Audit & Chief Audit Executive.
● Manage a team of auditors to perform audit assignments.
● Perform audit assignments to test design and operating effectiveness; identify gaps/control lapses and recommend controls and risk aversion measures.
● Perform root cause analysis to develop audit recommendations.
● Communicate and manage relationship with the Senior Management, to enhance understanding of business processes and audit risk assessments.
● Conduct meetings with the stakeholders from Senior Management to communicate audit findings and recommendations.
● Prepare audit reports for the Board Audit Committee on audit assignments performed.
● Monitor closure of audit findings and adherence of audit recommendations.

Participated in Internal Audit of branches and departments in line with approved RAK Bank audit methodology. Carried out the audit work in accordance with the plan relating to sample size, assigned man-hours, etc. Identified exceptions, documented audit work in accordance with laid down standards. Drafted the branch audit risk assessment and audit template. Lead a team of Audit Assistants for branch audit assignments and reviewed their work.

Participated in Internal Audit of branches and departments in line with approved RAK Bank audit methodology. Carried out the audit work in accordance with the plan relating to sample size, assigned man-hours, etc. Identified exceptions, documented audit work in accordance with laid down standards.

To achieve all set targets by cross selling bank's products and providing excellent service to the customers by following the guidelines of Service Quality unit.

Provided IT Support services for office and retail shops, maintained an SLA Tracker Sheet for IT services provided by the department. I was also responsible for new-user creation and responsible for the Proxy server.