Manager - Audit & Assurance
Crowe Horwath
Total des années d'expérience :17 years, 6 Mois
Designation Chronology:
- Apr 2014 - Present: Manager - Audit & Assurance
- Mar 2012 - Apr 2014: Audit Supervisor
- Feb 2010 - Mar 2012: Auditor
- Audit Planning, Supervision, Execution & Finalization
- Planning, supervising & executing multiple non-assurance engagements such as agreed upon procedures & compilation of financial
statements in compliance with applicable standards.
- Evaluating existing internal controls, identifying missing controls & deficiencies and presenting recommendations to enhance overall
effectiveness & efficiency of the internal control system through management weakness letters.
- Leveraging financial assessment tools (variance analysis / ratio analysis) to gauge profitability, liquidity & solvency position of clients along
with performance against competitors & industry.
- Recommending changes in policies & approaches linked with costs, revenues, accounting policies, disclosure policies & expenses after
conducting in-depth Industry Analysis.
- Identifying critical business risk matters inclusive of missing information, business processes lacking transparency & other audit related risks;
sharing these with clients & senior management of the Audit firm in order to limit the extent of damage.
- Enabling Audit Team members to gel in quickly and make valuable contributions in terms of insights & recommendations for clients; also
providing technical assistance as and when required and administering training to enhance their skill sets & productivity.
- Building and strengthening relationships through constant interaction; identifying opportunities to cross sell value added services based on
understanding of competitive position.
- Performing test of controls and substantive audit procedures on material transactions and account balances.
- Proactively identified, assessed, summarized and communicated internal control deficiencies and corrective actions required.
- Assisting in audit planning
- Provided support to the Audit in-charge across the areas of file documentation, straight referencing and cross referencing.
- Facilitated the Audit in-charge in audit program documentation, file building and cross referencing the audit program to work papers.
- Addressed concerns raised by clients to the level of their satisfaction and resolved their issues in an amicable manner.
- Drafting audit reports for review of manager and engagement partner.
- Complilation of financial statements as per IFRS and Local laws in various non-assurance assignments.
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