Sana Anwar, Senior Audit Associate

Sana Anwar

Senior Audit Associate

Crowe Horwath

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Doctorate, Audit and accounting
Experience
3 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :3 years, 8 Months

Senior Audit Associate at Crowe Horwath
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • July 2014 to February 2018

Auditing and Accounting

INTERNAL AUDIT at Tricastmedia (Private) Limited * Universal Services Fund * Wahid Industries Pakistan Limited
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • October 2015 to June 2016

Review accounting policies and procedures and their compliance.
Objectively review business processes.
Evaluate the efficacy of risk management procedures in place.
Ensure Organisational compliance with relevant rules and regulations.
Make recommendations on how to improve internal controls and governance procedures.

Senior Audit Associate
  • to

Plan Audit assignments and other agreed upon assignments, preparing overall audit plan, allocation of work,
setting timelines and supervision of audit teams.
* Ensuring that clients are meeting with all the terms and conditions of their debt covenants and if these financial
arrangements are posing any risk on their future operations.
* Performing recalculation procedure for markup and repayments of short / long term borrowings, finance lease
and ijarah arrangements.
* Extensive application of the International Financial Reporting Standards, International Accounting Standards,
International Auditing Standards, Corporate Laws and Taxation and; reviewing statutory financial statements to
ensure compliance therewith.
* Liaison with various levels of clients’ personnel including the highest hierarchy of management to understand
their needs and expectations and to ensure client satisfaction.
* Communicating and educating the management and those charged with governance regarding audit
observations and their impact on entity’s business environment.
* Preparation, presentation and analysis of financial statements.
* Attended and supervised physical verification of inventories and fixed assets.

Semi-senior at Construction * Descon Engineering Limited * Presson Descon international Private Limited Power Sector * Harbin Electric International Company Limited * PDIL Gratuity Fund Oil & Gas * Total Oil Pakistan Limited Gratuity Fund Textile * All Pakistan Textile Mills Association * D.S Industries Limited * Service Industries Textile Limited * Shehzad Textile Mills Limited Health and Care/ Non-Profit Organization * Fassun Pharmaceuticals Private Limited
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Establishing co-operative relationship with the clients and understanding their needs and assisting them in
resolving technical issues relating to specific accounting compliance matters.
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* Verification of vouchers e.g. cash payments and receipts, bank payments and receipts, adjustments,
reconciliations, purchases, sales, etc.
* Ensuring that Management policies and procedural standards are implemented effectively.
* Risk assessment of the client in accordance with firm’s audit methodology and planning audit procedures
required to cover this risk.
* Exercising decision-making skills to prepare working papers and audit observation findings.
KEY CLIENT PORTFOLIO
A list of major client engagements is as follows

INTERNAL AUDIT at Asia TA (Private) Limited * Tricastemedia Private Limited
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Amendments in existing policies and procedures as per laws applicable in Pakistan.
* Identification of risks involved, and measures to mitigate these risks.
* Monitor and review the effectiveness of internal controls implemented.
* Variance analysis of financial statements.
* Report to Board of Governance regarding any discrepancies arising during the course of internal audit and
recommendations to resolve the same.
CORPORATE AFFAIRS
MSD Capital Equities (Private) Limited
* Statement of net worth certificate as per the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan regulations and
Pakistan Mercantile Exchange rules.
* Asset segregation certificate of Brokerage Company

Education

Doctorate, Audit and accounting
  • at Institute of Chartered Accountant of Pakistan
  • March 2018

CA finalist from ICAP with 3.8 years of experience in auditing from Crowe Horwath

Bachelor's degree, Commerce
  • at Punjab Group of Colleges Gujrat, Pakistan
  • June 2011

Bachelors degree in commerce from a renounce institute Punjab Group of Colleges affiliated by Punjab University Pakistan.

High school or equivalent, Medical Science
  • at Fatima Jinmah Girls degree college Gujrat
  • June 2007

Specialties & Skills

ACCOUNTANCY
AUDITING
BALANCE
BUDGETING
CASEWARE
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DECISION MAKING
EQUITIES
FINANCE
FINANCIAL

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Native Speaker
Punjabi
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