Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Director of Internal Audit Department
General Authority For Sport
Dubai
04.2023 - Current
Prepared an audit plan that covered H.E requirements for the intended coverage of GAS that focused on quick wins and the identification of high risk areas
Sat up As-is understanding with the Secretary General and all of the Senior management team
Worked closely with organizational leadership including the Secretary General, Members of the Senior Management team and the Minister to Identify areas of risks and provide recommendations
Managed daily Internal Audit operations while overseeing multiple locations to foster increased productivity and ensuring that both location's audit plan is being covered efficiently
Director of Internal Auditing
Ministry Of Education
Abu Dhabi
06.2022 - Current
Revamped & enhanced the audit charter, manuals and procedures to align with the latest updates from IIA Global Standards
Aligned the objective of the internal audit office with the strategic objectives of the Ministry
Introduced a new methodology for the audit report and the six pillars approach
Selected by the Minister to be a consultant in the Organization Development committee
Seconded by the Minister to assess the General Authority for Sport, governance, Senior Management & their challenges to achieve their objectives
Optimized the workload of the team for best utilization of the audit resources
Increased the awareness within the Ministry about the role of Internal Audit and its importance
Identified the audit universe in the Ministry and planned for the risk assessment activity to prepare for the audit strategy and the annual audit plan
Supervised individual audits with the Section Heads and ensure that they provide a comprehensive coverage and add value through relevant & impactful recommendations
Proactively inform senior management of significant risks or exposures related to internal controls, compliance, and/or governance requiring prompt attention.
Established a direct contract with the Minister and provided advice on a regular basis
Provided consultancy services to H.E team including Undersecretary, undersecretary Assistances and Advisors.
Senior Internal Auditor
Abu Dhabi Polymers Company Ltd (Borouge)
Abu Dhabi
11.2016 - 05.2022
Prepared the annual audit plan and discuss audits allocation to the team, in terms of man-days requirements, and obtain audit committee approval for the audit plan.
Communicate audit engagement letters to the concerned leaders of the function/ department to initiate and prepare the audit engagement with the audit team.
Lead the audit opening meetings, highlighting the team members and their roles on the audit to the concerned functions/ department.
Lead the “as is understanding meetings” with the auditees and assigned the major auditable areas to the team.
Highlight the list of required documents for the team to performed any given audit
Ensure that the team have gone through the policies and procedures and did their due diligence before any meeting takes place.
Go through the RCM performed by the team and review it for any additional areas for review.
Supervise the fieldwork activity and discuss possible gaps and finding with the team.
Support the team in case of any challenges in obtaining information needed to perform the audit.
Discuss the findings that were identified by the team internally before the exit meeting.
Lead and support and the team during the exit meeting and Liaise with department/function management with providing the management action plans
Review the audit report and ensure the quality and relevance of the audit points.
Lead and support the team in the closing meetings and ensure that all the points have been conveyed to the auditees, and facilitate a common ground for the management action plans to be implemented on reasonable timely basis
Prepare & attend the audit committee meeting and report the status of the audit plan, significant findings & and the audit function’s business plan for the upcoming periods.
Scholarship Officer
ADNOC
Abu Dhabi
05.2013 - 11.2016
Head hunted and recruited high flyers students into ADNOC scholarship.
Advised scholars on their academic choices.
Educated hundreds scholars about cultural shocks pre their departure abroad.
Managed student’s stipends, awards and deductions of 2000 students.
Administrated all of Higher Colleges of Technology student’s payments during their years of study.
Developed marketing campaign for Scholarship division.
Education
Masters - Audit Management & Consultancy
Birmingham City University
United Kingdom
09.2014 - 06.2016
Bachelor Of Applied Science - EBusiness Management
Higher Colleges of Technology
Al Ain
09.2011 - 12.2013
Skills
Fraud investigations
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Certification
Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
Accomplishments
Selected as a distinguished speaker at the IIA CAE conference 2022
Received the Quality Assessment "Generally Conforms" rating from UAE IIA
Affiliations
UAE IIA member, speaker. Member of the 2023 GAM conference committee
Work Availability
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Quote
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Jim Horning
Timeline
Director of Internal Audit Department
General Authority For Sport
04.2023 - Current
Director of Internal Auditing
Ministry Of Education
06.2022 - Current
Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
02-2018
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
07-2017
Senior Internal Auditor
Abu Dhabi Polymers Company Ltd (Borouge)
11.2016 - 05.2022
Masters - Audit Management & Consultancy
Birmingham City University
09.2014 - 06.2016
Scholarship Officer
ADNOC
05.2013 - 11.2016
Bachelor Of Applied Science - EBusiness Management
Higher Colleges of Technology
09.2011 - 12.2013
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