Senior Internal Auditor
Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare - JHAH
Total years of experience :24 years, 4 Months
A core member of the 10 member Audit and Fraud Investigation team reporting to Chief Audit Executive, who in turns reports to the Board Audit Committee of the Joint Venture Company - John's Hopkins Aramco Healthcare (JHAH), my responsibilities include the following:
1. Lead small focus groups in the conduct of the Audit across various business process or entity level operations at JHAH.
2. Conduct risk based audit planning for each and every audit being performed using Pentana Audit Software, culminating in creation of a detailed audit scope and testing plan across the key High and Medium Risks identified in the process under review.
3. Assign, monitor, review and assist in the conduct of the Audit to ensure smooth progress culminating in discussion and agreement with the Auditee about the Audit concerns raised and release of the Final Audit report.
4. Tracking progress of the closure of the open Audit observations and validation of the proof of closures submitted by the Auditees within the timelines
5. Submission of quarterly updates to the BACC about the progress on Audit Plan and the key risks identified in the quarter
Heading the Internal Audit Function, reporting to the Partner - Internal Audit & Risk Advisory vertical within Moore- Oman
§ Leading the 9 member audit team in the conduct of the risk based functional audit reviews across 43 clients, within business operations ranging from Insurance, diverse Manufacturing operations, Hotels, Construction, Logistics, Information Technology, Retail (SAOG / SAOC / LLC clients), etc based out of Oman in line with Audit Plan agreed with the respective Audit Committees, in line with the IIA attribute and performance standards.
§ Matching the diverse expectation of the client’s Internal Audit Committee and quarterly reporting requirements, highlighting high and medium risk Audit observations identified across appropriate Risk scoring methodology as approved by the Audit Committee at the beginning of the year.
§ Led the team in conducting business process understanding studies and annual risk mapping exercises across complex business processes predominantly related to - Insurance, Manufacturing, Constructions, Logistics business for submission of detailed Audit Risk assessment reports to their respective Audit Committees prior to review and approval of the annual Audit Plan at the beginning of the year,
§ Conducting external Quality Assessment of the in-house Internal Audit Function of listed Business Entities (SAOG companies) in line with the mandatory requirements as stipulated under CMA’s decision 10/2018 and IIA’s attribute and performance standards. Such quality assessment involve detailed review of the basis of Risk assessment underlying the approved Audit Plan, quality of work papers and Audits being conducted by the department, level of compliance to mandatory reporting standards conforming the independence and objectivity of the Internal Audit function at the organization being reviewed
§ Have handled special due diligence assignments mandated by Audit Committees to identify reasons for poor performance of new Business model being incubated by Management and provided critical recommendations of strategic nature which helped the Audit Committee to report to the Board and aiding them in decision making
Internal Audit
Heading the Audit Function, reporting directly to the Head Audit Committee and all Directors within the Group
•Leading the audit team in the conduct of the detailed functional audit reviews across 9 diverse Strategic Business Units within the group in line with standards defined by IIA, adhering to the risk based annual Audit Plan approved by Audit committee
•Created a Risk based periodic audit finding & MIS reporting format for the benefit of the Board of Directors which essentially encapsulates the critical and significant achievements of the Audit Team for the period in question.
•Handling both Audit Committee and Board of Directors expectations across quarterly Audit committee meetings to discuss the critical audit points raised during the course of Audit reviews.
•Have handled special / fraud investigations in response to allegations / concerns raised by Directors / concerned employees
•Been part of the Management think tank providing yeoman support in implementation of effective ERP controls in the SAP implementation effort across the group
•Have been part of multiple cross functional team initiatives to usher in process improvements across the group or towards implementation of strategic initiatives to control costs or process re-engineering
Projects - Business Process Standardisation, Audit & Business Process Re-engineering
Reporting directly to CEO and heading the Projects division of M/s Treeline Business Solutions Pvt Ltd
•Leading a 9 member team within the Management Consultancy domain offering services ranging from Business Process Standardization, Business Process Re-engineering & Audit solutions across our clients based out of KSA.
•Managed multiple projects ranging from anchoring various ERP roll outs, which included Business Process Understanding, Business Process Reengineering and policy rollouts to Due Diligence reviews and Internal Audit Assignments
•Facilitator towards Change Management ensuring the new processes defined in line with the functional objective is mapped to the ERP capability and the Internal control process defined in response to underlying associated risk
•Client management included troubleshooting and conflict management in case of mismatch with diverse stakeholders interest and ensuring that the best option in the Interest of the Organisation prevails
•Conducting detailed due diligence exercises in response to assignments undertaken to test and provide assurance about effectiveness of controls, authenticity and accuracy of reported financials and forecasts, etc
Internal Audit
Reported directly to Group Internal Audit Manager (GIAM) - Head of Internal Audit
•Led an 8 member team deployed across independent SBUs as Resident Auditors. My job responsibilities included drawing up annual Risk base Audit plan (approved by GIAM and the Board of Directors) across each of the functional SBU where the team members are deployed. Incorporation of special Audit request that come from time to time either by SBU Management / Executive Management while balancing the Audit Plan necessitated clarity of priorities.
•Initiated the creation of detailed functional objectives and procedural documentation to facilitate Audit review and assessment of risk and the adequacy of controls therein or otherwise, including application of fresh internal controls across various operational process. Encouraged the individual team members to garner greater understanding and knowledge of the individual company’s operations.
•Coordinated with various process owners in pursuance to Audit Initiatives towards formal identification Risk and Control matrix across a specific SBU. In addition, have also led a cross functional team towards formal identification of SBU wide Risk and mitigation strategies in response to the newly implemented Nitaqat system.
•Led the team across Fraud and other Investigations which successfully culminated in persecution by Corporate Legal.
•Coordinated with the system team towards creation of enhanced queries within the ERP system (JD Edwards) to supplement the “deep dive” efforts of the Internal Audit Team.
•Involved in creation of an effective legacy included redrafting of the Audit Charter, coordinating with the IT team to create a central repository of Audit knowledge bank and creation of an online Audit Issue tracking tool which would act as a dashboard for the Executive Management
As the Manager Intenal Audit, I was heading the Information Technology Vertical and reporting to General Manager Intenal Audit. As a member of a fully functional and organized internal audit department, we were actively involved in risk analysis, badly engineering and process unproven
Process Management and Internal Audit
M/s ABN AMRO NV, CHENNAI
Internal Audit
Reported directly to AGM audit and w responsible for conduct of Audit across Finance, Operations and IT domains
courses: Certified Internal Auditor
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