Audit Manager and Tax Expert
FAKIH AUDIT
Total years of experience :19 years, 0 Months
As an Expert Auditor and holding LCPA license, I worked as a freelancer for Audit, Taxation and financial Consultancy
Audit & Assurance:
• Engagement letter with clients and clients’ relationship
• Develop annual audit plan and perform audits with policies and procedures
• Oversees audit planning, field work, and audit reporting; preparing reports such as financial statements and disclosures, management letter for audit issues
• Review compliance with International Accounting Standards (IFRS) and provide Professional advice on client compliance status for improvement of issues detected in audit
• Assess financial risk exposure and internal controls by identifying areas of non-compliance, evaluate manual and automated financial process, and identify process weaknesses and inefficiencies and conduct the engagement plan, preparation, and execution
• Identification nature and extent of analytical procedures and substantive procedures, to perform test and select materiality level
• Performing risk management procedures in evaluating client and engagement and prepare related pre - engagement documents
• Analyze and resolve audit issues in a timely basis
• Review and prepare all taxes (income tax returns, payroll tax (R10, R5 and R7), VAT, Property tax declarations
• Computing NSSF Declarations on monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis
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▪ Communicate audit status to management on regular basis
▪ Assist in risk assessment and mitigation activities
▪ Perform audits with policies and procedures
▪ Discuss with management about audit observations, recommendations and actions to
be taken
▪ Engagement letter with clients
▪ Analyze and resolve audit issues in a timely basis
▪ Preparing Audit Reports, financial statements and recommendation
Audit performed:
▪ Court Audit Reports (Casino Du Liban, Eye and Ear Hospital, Court Audits, ....
Beirut- Mousaitbeh - Ramel Al-Zarif, Sarrouf St.
Audit & Assurance:
• Engagement letter with clients and clients’ relationship
• Develop annual audit plan and perform audits with policies and procedures
• Oversees audit planning, field work, and audit reporting; preparing reports such as
financial statements and disclosures, management letter for audit issues, and
communicate findings and recommendations with managing partner
• Delegated work to staff according to their experience and capabilities in conformance
with the planning documents and responsible for the daily supervision of audit staff,
allocation of work, development of audit staff including technical skills as well as meeting
the tight deadlines required by clients and the local tax authorities, in addition to the
completion of performance evaluations
• Review automated audit work papers prepared by the audit staff to ensure compliance
with the department's methodology and coordinate with team to review audit findings
• Review compliance with International Accounting Standards (IFRS) and provide
Professional advice on client compliance status for improvement of issues detected in
audit
• Assess financial risk exposure and internal controls by identifying areas of non-
compliance, evaluate manual and automated financial process, and identify process
weaknesses and inefficiencies and conduct the engagement plan, preparation and
execution
• Identification nature and extent of analytical procedures and substantive procedures, to
perform test and select materiality level
• Performing risk management procedures in evaluating client and engagement and
prepare related pre - engagement documents
• Analyze and resolve audit issues in a timely basis
• Discuss with management about audit observations, recommendations and actions to be
taken
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• Co-ordination with Professionals like lawyers, Tax, finalization of corporate Reporting and
Audit opinion
• Review and prepare all taxes (income tax returns, payroll tax (R10, R5 and R7), VAT,
Property tax declarations
• Computing NSSF Declarations on monthly, quarterly and yearly basis
Tasks performed:
1) Audit
• Audit for the governmental sector as Ogero, Rafic Al-Hariri Hospital...
• In charge of audit for private sector SMEs of a portfolio of 69 clients, responsible for the
coordination of their interim and final statuary audits, responding to all clients’ queries
and providing them with advice when necessary.
2) Accounting:
• Preparing financial statements, profit and loss statement in accordance with IFRS,
Financial analysis and other reports
• Maintaining accounting controls by the recommended policies and regulations
• Profitability and cost analysis
• End of month closing processes
• Budgeting and cost management
• Preparing and posting Journal vouchers and documenting entries
• Maintaining prepaid and accrual accounts
• Fixed assets depreciation
• All Bank Reconciliation
courses: Managerial Economics, Advanced Accounting and Financial Reporting, Advanced Financial Management, Feasibility Study for SMES, Advanced Human Resources Management, Advanced Managerial Accounting, Strategic Management
courses: Financial Accounting I, Financial Accounting II, Financial Accounting III, Financial Management, Cost Accounting I, Cost Accounting II, Contemporary Accounting System, Taxation System, Advanced Accounting and Financial Reporting, Advanced Managerial Accounting and Advanced Financial Management, Statistics, Human Recourses
