Sarmad Khan

• Working in a team based environment, helping senior managers and partner with the team scheduling for my audit clients including finalizing the timing of the audits with the clients.
• Performing initial planning of the audit in consultation with the senior manager and partner including discussing the key risk areas, materiality as well as preparing engagement budgets and discussing engagement profitability;
• Taking full ownership of public companies’ audits as well as large multi-million-dollar revenue generating private audit engagements and ensuring file is completed and deliverables are issued within the agreed timeline and budget;
• Preparing and submitting in-depth report to client audit committees’ and to their management highlighting key findings, risk and control weaknesses as a value-added service to the client;
• Reviewing the financial statements of the clients and ensuring that they are IFRS or ASPE compliant.
• Supervise team members on audit engagement, review their work performed to ensure quality of the audit;
• Perform audit of a client listed in US SEC, auditing internal controls over financial reporting based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO)

• Performing initial planning of the audit in consultation with the senior manager and partner including preparing engagement budgets and discussing engagement profitability;
• Taking full ownership of public companies’ audit engagement and ensuring file is completed and deliverables are issued within the agreed timeline and budget;
• Tracking budgeted vs actual hours throughout the course of the audit engagement to ensure budgeted recovery is achieved or improvised;
• Preparing and submitting in-depth management letters to the client highlighting risk and control weaknesses as a value-added service to the client;
• Supervise team members on audit engagement, review their work performed to ensure quality of the audit;
• Preparing tax returns for my public audit clients.

• Performing initial planning of the audit in consultation with the senior manager and partner.
• Taking full ownership of audit engagement and ensuring file is completed and deliverables are issued within the agreed timeline and budget;
• Preparing and submitting in-depth management letters to the client highlighting risk and control weaknesses as a value added service to the client;
• Coaching team members on audit engagement, review their work performed to ensure quality of the audit;
• Providing advice to the clients adopting accounting IFRS and ASPE regarding complex or other issues/ matters identified during the assignment and assisted non-audit ASPE clients with their financial statements preparation and disclosure notes thereof

•Reviewed several balance sheet reconciliations prepared by the Accounting Technicians to ensure compliance with SOX;
• Prepared various monthly as well quarterly deliverables as part of the financial reporting process;
• Supervised Accounting Technicians in their performance management for their career development as well approving their timesheets;
• Responsible for mapping the acquired company’s trial balance figures into Stantec’s Oracle chart of accounts;
• Lead for Data migration for the newly acquired companies while ensuring compliance with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX);
• Tested pre-migration data in the Oracle CAP4 environment and coordinating with the IT team for the resolution of issues;
• Migrated data in the Oracle production PAP2 environment while ensuring the amounts tallying with the acquired company’s trial balance;

-Prepared, reviewed and posted month end journal entries in Oracle financials software; reviewed corporate trial balance (CTB) for AER (Alberta Energy Regulator) and US Joint Venture entities.
-Reviewed CTB ensuring adherence to US GAAP plus production of required documentation for SOX compliance.
-Performed various month end activities for AER and US Joint Venture entities under very strict timelines, ensuring completion of specific accountabilities and deliverables associated with each day.
-Prepared AER and US Joint Venture entities working papers to compile Financial Dashboard pages plus quarterly external reporting within specific deadlines.
-Ensured financial reports were in line with contractual agreements and that proper information is captured (including variance analysis to budget and prior year) to aid management in decision making.
-Used and updated financial models based on agreements, inputs from other departments, communications with all departments and direction of upper management.

-Audited private as well as listed companies which were on conversion from Canadian GAAP to IFRS and ASPE (Accounting Standards for Private Enterprise) as well as NTR (Notice to reader) assignments.
-Initial planning of the audit in consultation with the engagement manager and partner
-Assessment of control risk and designing the tests of controls for specific areas in consultation with the engagement manager;
-Performing tests of controls and substantive procedures highlighting the issues/ matters;
-Discussions with clients regarding accounting or other issues/ matters identified during the assignment;
-Preparation of other deliverables, such as, management letter identifying control weaknesses, report to the audit committee, its implications and recommendations

I am currently working as an Associate in the audit and advisory department for more than last five years. I am responsible for the planning, execution and finalization of audit clients.
The following tasks I have performed during my professional experience in KPMG Qatar were:

• Extensive application of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and preparation of financial statements in compliance therewith;
• Extensive application of the International Standards on Auditing especially in case of assurance engagements other than audit and reviews;
• Supervised and coached staff under my team for major audits/assignments
• Verifying compliance with various laws relating to clients.
• Application of KPMG Audit Methodology (KAM);
• Initial planning of the audit in consultation with the engagement manager
• Assessment of control risk and designing the tests of controls for specific areas in consultation with the engagement manager;
• Designing substantive procedures in consultation with the engagement manager;
• Performing tests of controls and substantive procedures highlighting the issues/ matters;
• Discussions with clients regarding accounting or other issues/ matters identified during the assignment;
• Preparation of other deliverables, such as, management letter identifying control weaknesses, its implications and recommendations; and

I have been involved in the following major assignments ranging from full scope statutory audits to agree upon procedure, limited reviews etc