Tariq Alawwad

TWINTEC is a world leader specialist contractor offering a design, build and insured package for the construction of “jointless” SFRC industrial concrete floors.
TWINTEC MIDDLE EAST FZE (Dubai-UAE) is a shared service provider for the activities of Twintec Group in the Middle East region mainly subsidiary namely “Twintec Middle East Industrial Flooring LLC”.
Responsibilities includes but not limited to:
Assist the Group CFO for any financial, administrative, treasury, legal and tax (compliance) tasks in the Middle East region.

Worked in the Consumer and Industrial Products and Services (CIPS) department.

Responsibilities include:
• Preparing and reviewing of financial statements and footnote disclosures to ensure compliance with IFRS reporting requirements.
• Identifying, researching and resolving technical accounting and reporting issues based on authoritative literature.
• Supervising, coaching and developing team members, whilst managing audits to ensure the efficient completion within deadlines.
• Evaluating that the control and governance systems are functioning as they should, to enable the organization’s objectives and goals to be met.
• Reporting internal controls deficiencies identified directly to the audit committee and providing recommendations for improving the organization’s operations, in terms of efficient and effective performance.

Worked in the Group head office finance department which monitor the financial operation activities across the Group’s Companies.

Responsibilities include:
 Plan and perform special assignments to assist business/process owners in addressing identified concerns
 To gather all required financial data required by the direct line manager in order to support the translation of this data to full-fledge reports covering all requirements
 To undertake financial data analysis, reports, investigations, or assignments requested by the Vice-President Finance in order to counterpart with his demand
 Identify areas of concerns (unresolved audit issues, unaddressed risks, significant exceptions identified during the financial review) that need direct involvement of special projects team for timely resolution of such concerns
 Understand the controls / action plan put in place by the BU / process owners to mitigate / minimize the impact of such risks
 Detailed review of the financial statements (management accounts)
 Combine the Group budget in order to present the consolidation budget to the Vice-President Finance
 Routine tracking of audit issues resolution by the business/process owners
 Follow-up with the business/process owners for resolution of key audit issues
 High level analytical review of the financial statements (audited as well as management accounts)

Worked across multiple industries including Manufacturing, Retail, Logistic Transportation, Service, Construction, Real Estate Development, Metal Mining and Petrochemical for Joint Stock and LLC Companies.

Responsibilities include:
 Attending Audit Committee, Annual General Assembly and BOD meetings to report audit findings and significant matters
 Preparation of proposals, budgets for potential clients and projects
 Preparing the Management letter points for internal control deficiencies
 Engaged in planning for understanding, validating and assessing controls for each major area and analyzing company’s performance to plan the nature, timing, and extent of tests to be performed
 Obtaining sufficient competent evidential matter through inspection, observation, inquiries, and confirmations to afford a reasonable basis to form a reasonable opinion regarding the financial statement under audit based on International Auditing Standards “ISA”
 Assessing the accounting principles used (SOCPA & IFRS) and significant estimates made by the company’s management
 Performing financial and business analyses including ratio analysis and evaluating decision-making process
 Evaluating the overall financial statements
 Preparing the Auditor’s Report, clients’ financial statements and accompanied disclosures for (English and Arabic financial statements) in compliance with IFRS/ SOCPA, as applicable. In addition to other professional reports issued from assurance department in order to ensure proper presentation and disclosure
 Reporting the results to audit partner and / or audit manager
 Supervising team members, control their time, assess their performance and review their work, and managing multiple projects simultaneously
 Coordinate between client and PwC zakat/tax team to support them with the details needed in their calculation of zakat/tax provision and withholding tax to assess the zakat return
 Directing subordinates in the process of electronic invoicing and collection of AR

Following are selected top 5 clients I served during my employment with PwC:
1- Saudi Yanbu Petrochemical Company (YANPET), a joint venture between Saudi Basic Industries Company (SABIC) and ExxonMobil Corporation
2- Ma’aden Gold Base Metal Company (MGBMC), a subsidiary of Saudi Arabian Mining Company (MA’ADEN)
3- Savola Packaging System Limited, a subsidiary of Savola Group
4- Jabal Omar Development Company (JODC), a Saudi Joint Stock Company
5- Knowledge Economic City Company, a Saudi Joint Stock Company