SURESH MENON

company policies and procedures.
 Keep the program maintained and up-to-date.
 Design the system of internal control within the organization, analysis of the system and
reporting any deficiencies.
 Liaison with UAE Central Bank officials, external auditors on audit and issues related to
compliance and timely submission of relevant reports.
 Review of accounts and reporting on practices in relation to IFRS.
 Review and carry out investigations relating to reports received from branches including Risk,
Fraud and Compliance.
 Review the AML compliance activity of the organization and timely submission of relevant
reports.
 Identify trends and opportunities to improve the company’s internal audit and compliance
activity
 Review the branch internal audit reports and timely submission of consolidated audit reports to
the management.
 Audit of various departments as per the direction of management on a periodical basis.
 Periodic scrutiny of ledgers in branch and head office and suggesting corrections for the errors
and mistakes.
 Review of the Bank Reconciliation statements of local and foreign banks maintained in
different currencies, reporting on the issues in the statement and given monthly report to the
Central Bank.
 Verifying the expense statements of all departments of the company
 Verifying the petty cash expenses of the branches and reporting any unusual transactions to the
Management.
 Performing surprise checking of currencies and transactions at the branch level

• overseeing financial, system and operational audit consultancy services
• system and operational evaluation of client organizations
• managing internal audit activities of client organizations
• liaison with clients.

M/s Lootah Group of companies, Dubai, UAE (pioneers of construction industry, Ready-mix concrete, Airline operations, Steel, prefab materials, Aluminum, Travel and Tourism, Real Estate, Clearing and forwarding and software development. Lootah group turnover was around AUS 500 M and employs over 2500 personnel).

Responsibilities include:
• Preparation of short, medium and long term audit plans based on comprehensive business risk / controls assessment
• Defining areas to be audited and its methodology
• Testing the compliance of existing internal controls and evaluation of existing controls, policies & procedures for improvement.
• Ensuring compliance with the Group's policies and procedures
• Identifying the potential to improve operational efficiency
• Preparation and Finalisation of audit reports
• Guide, Review, supervise and evaluate auditors' performance.
• Keep abreast with current developments that may affect audit and the latest audit techniques, methods, tools, and procedures
• Perform special assignments including fraud investigations.
• ensuring implementation and compliance of management policies and procedures across the organization;
• designs, develops, implements, evaluate and review the audit plan and existing internal control systems within the Group control system and its effectiveness.
• conducts audit exercise to review the accuracy of financial records as well as ledger accounts.
• liaison and coordination with statutory auditors during interim and annual audits apart from holding periodic discussions appraisals with the group chairman and other top officials.
• Overseeing the finance department during the absence of the Group Finance Controller
• Review of half yearly and yearly budgets, cash flow statements and bank reconciliation
• Periodic audit reports are submitted to Group Chairman.
Well versed in IFRS compliances. Also successful in coordinating Group consolidation of final statement of accounts including related party transaction eliminations during interim and annual audit finalizations.

M/s Salim Ahmed Al Moosa group, Dubai, UAE (Falcon City of Wonders and Pioneer AMC Contracting LLC form part of the group;They are into engineering and civil construction, Project developers, travel and tourism, real estate, consumer goods, machinery hire and paint/ chemical manufacturing; Group turnover exceeds Aed 250 M and employs over 1800 personnel)

Key Responsibilities:

• periodic review of the group financial statements as well as monthly payrolls
• examining operating costs and Income & Expenditure of the group Companies
• Liaise with banking institutions and Auditors.
• Review of half yearly and yearly budgets, cash flow statements and bank reconciliation.
• Analysis of actual operational results with budgetary figures and undertaking review wherever there are variations.
• Implementing the top management policies and procedures across group companies.
• Advice divisional managers to ensure strong corporate governance across the company.