A Chartered Certified Accountant with 8+ years of working as an independent Internal Auditor. Proven successes in helping organization achieve and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, improve internal controls, and reduce financial and operational risk. Expert in internal auditing, risk assessment and risk management, financial analysis, IP management and capacity building, compliance with internal, donor and local legal rules. Specialize in fraud investigation and strengthening the organisational policies.
Internal Auditing: successfully managing the team of Internal Auditors all over Pakistan. Formulizing annual audit plan and conducting internal audits to ensure compliance with internal controls and donor guidelines. Sharing the Internal Audit Reports highlighting the control deficiencies and potential risks to the audit committee to enhance organizational efficiency.
Providing management with the risk mitigation plan and ensuring timely reminders along with follow up of audit recommendations by conducting follow up activities to ensure adequacy and compliance of corrective actions.
Provide input to Country areas of compliance risk while feeding into risk registers and follow-up on closure of issues. Ensuring that the Country Risk Register is updated on bi-annual basis.
Escalation of emerging risks to management on a timely basis
Monitoring the policies and internal control procedures on regular basis to identify any gaps and provide recommendations for the improvement.
Identify, access, management of financial, operational & governance risk ensuring that Country head & Head of Finance is aware and responded accordingly
Compliance:
Thoroughly review donor contracts, annexes, guidelines and rules/regulations and disseminate the line managers’ imminent actions required.
Working with the Grants Coordinator, ensure all managers in field offices understand ACTED and donor award management processes including maintaining a well-organized physical filing and electronic systems
Implement and maintain testing systems to ensure that all field offices are following Organization’s & back donor financial, procurement and administration policies and accepted accounting principles.
Coordinating with External auditors appointed by donor agencies and statutory auditors to ensure that the organization is compliant with the donor guidelines and compliance with local laws and regulations.
Successfully implementing the projects funded by USAID, ECHO, EU, IFAD, DFID, UNHABITAT, UNOCHA, UNICEF, CIDA etc.
External Audit Coordination:
Organize contracting of auditors/donor visits in coordination with project or grant team and supply chain department as per available budget and donor terms of reference
Review procurement, recruitment process/files and program file to ensure donor compliance
Maintain a follow-up on external Auditor’s recommendations while ensuring sharing and learning across area offices
Review and act on audit queries and discuss with field offices. Escalate high-risk issues and potential financial liabilities to Head Quarter and Management at Country Level
Partner and Donor Management: conducting the Due Diligence of potential Implementing Partners, development of risk mitigation plan for partners based on the risks highlighted during due diligence.
Ensuring that the capacity building plan for partners exists and trainings have been conducted by relevant departments in accordance with the capacity building plan.
Overseeing the expenses reported by Partners.
Representing ACTED in the Due Diligence conducted by donors and coordinating with all the departments internally to complete the due diligence.
Transparency and Investigations:
Country focal person for receiving transparency alerts and undertaking investigations of alleged fraud, financial corruption, misconduct, sexual exploitation and abuse and preparing investigation reports clearly highlighting the control weaknesses identified and lesson learned as part of investigation to avoid any such cases happening in future.
Maintain and follow-up on lesson learned as part of investigation process.
• Responsible for preparation of budgets and budget follow ups
• Follow up and review the expenses reported by Implementing Partners and ensure timely submission of financial reports.
• Consolidation of expenses reported from Implementing Partners in the financial reports.
• Ensure compliance with FBR regulations.
• Assist during the external audits conducted by donors or annual statutory audits
• Review of Implementing Partner’s funds request and maintaining IP follow-up
• Reconcile the bank statements
• Assisting in performing internal audits and reporting the findings to the audit manager. • Highlight and report potential risks related to procurement, assets and vehicles to Audit Manager and provide recommendation on how to mitigate the risk. • Provide necessary support during donor and statutory external audits. • Supporting audit team during ACTED due diligence conducted by the Donor. • Ensuring compliance with donor guidelines by pre-auditing the project financial expenses and to ensure that expenses allocated to the project are as per donor guidelines and ACTED financial policies and procedure • Liaison with the Base staff for the centralization of the documents and provide necessary guidance. • Sample checking the vouchers in order to ensure implementation of financial policies and procedures. • Responsible for updating the fraud register containing details of fraud and corruption inquiries, findings, resolutions and lessons learned
• Preparing budgets and budget follow-ups of the entity.
• Ensuring maintenance of proper set of books of accounts and records in accordance with the manner that facilitates quick retrieval of required information. Ensuring true and fair accountancy.
• Preparing bank reconciliation statement
• Ensuring all the expenses are recorded completely in the accounts
• Issuing advances to staff and ensuring timely reimbursement.
• Processing travel and mission claims of staff and vehicles payment.