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Loblaw Companies Limited is a Canadian food retailer that encompasses 1, 000 corporate and franchise supermarkets that operates under 22 regional and market segment banners. It also owns leading pharmaceutical business (Shoppers Drug Mart) and also operates its own real estate (Choice properties) and financial services company (PC Bank).

•Responsible to deliver on multiple simultaneous projects varying size, scope and complexity.
•Acted as Lead Auditor in a team of four auditors and responsible to coach and develop junior team members.
•Involved in meetings with business partners to assess business risk, identification of existing controls and develop appropriate audit plan.
•Drafted audit programs to ensure complete coverage and analysis of assigned areas.
•Prepared and presented audit report with regards to deficiencies and areas of improvement discovered during the course of audits, including tracking and follow up of identified areas for management action.
•Build and maintained positive working relationship by effectively communicating and regularly sharing information, issues and point of interest and knowledge with audit management, colleagues and internal and external business partners.

Carrefour is a French multinational retailer and is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world and the fourth largest retail group in the world in terms of revenue (after Wal-Mart, Tesco and Costco). Carrefour is operated by Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) group in Middle East, which also owns, develops and manages shopping malls, hotels, and residential and commercial communities in the Middle East and North Africa region with operations in 13 countries approximate annual revenue of US$6.8 billion.


•Led Carrefour audit team at their head office located in Dubai and its subsidiaries in Egypt, Oman and Bahrain.
•Responsible for supervising and conducting audit field work from beginning to end which includes preparing and communicating audit plan, documenting and reviewing test procedures and preparing final report.
•Participated in meeting with the senior management of MAF group to communicate audit findings and issue audit report.
•Increased efficiency and enhanced operations by suggesting new data analytics procedures, designing test scripts and reporting templates for various audits.
•Functioned as the primary liaison between the client and the Chief Audit Executive throughout the audit timeline to build and nurture client relationship and provide regular status reports.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is the world's second largest professional services network, which provides industry-focused assurance, advisory and tax services to public, private and government clients in all markets.
Role: Internal Audit Services
•Led team of six auditors in complex audit engagements.
•Performed audits and special projects to determine compliance with corporate policy, local industry specific regulations and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
•Performed Internal Control over Financial Reporting testing as related to various business cycles such as financial reporting, costing, fixed assets, inventory, revenue, treasury, payroll etc.
•Produced well-documented findings and discussed deficiencies with the management and project manager.
•Reviewed and coached junior team members and monitored project budget and timelines.
Role: External audit

•Prepared the audit program for various clients using PwC Risk based methodology.
•Managed the audit engagement end-to-end, which includes initiating planning activities, conducting evidence gathering and performing overall completion activities that include financial statement preparation.
•Coached and reviewed the work of junior team members.
•Prepared final reporting pack and other deliverables for the client.
Information Technology Risk Assurance

•Conducted assessment of IT control environment.
•Reviewed controls around ERP systems like Oracle and SAP.
•Performed controls testing for computer operations, program development, access to programs and data and IT applications
•Prepared IT general controls audit recommendation report and drafted the audit memo.

Du Mobile): Reviewed the internal controls of the company, which has total subscribers exceeding 4.5 million. As part of the project assisted Du to identify control gaps in business policies and suggested recommendations. Also helped the company to benchmark their capital investment process with other global telecom operators.

Managed the client portfolio of government owned asset management group, which owns and manages extensive residential and commercial asset portfolio of more than 25, 000 properties within Dubai Created the audit plan for the year 2013 and 2014 as job in charge. Conducted revenue, projects, finance, customer service and payroll review for process improvement and produced internal audit report.

Mergers & Acquisition, ASCL, 2010

Key Clients

•HSBC Bank: Advised on the business strategy and corporate governance policy of the leading private equity fund management Company majority of which is owned by HSBC bank. Interacted with the board members of HSBC investment firm (Havenvest private equity Ltd) to review board effectiveness and provide recommendations on their governance framework.

•Waha Capital: Worked as lead auditor responsible for internal control review for public listed investment company, which specializes in Principal Investments and Capital Markets with average net profit of 1.7billion per year. Responsible for completing controls testing and submitting audit reports to the management.
•Orient Insurance Company: Worked on the review of internal controls overs the claims process for commercial and personnel insurance products for a leading insurance company in the Middle East to enhance their claims process fairly and expeditiously.
•Emirates Airlines: Worked on financial statements audit for the world’s biggest international carrier with total revenue of US$ 26.3 billion. Responsible to analyze and submit report on cash flow statements, receivables management and aircraft lease agreements.