Responsible for preparing and implementing a risk-based audit & consultancy plan to assess, report on, and make suggestions for improving the company’s key operational/ finance activities and internal controls in India, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Future growth Markets of PMI
Oversee risk Management including risk assessment, Management Action Plan to mitigate the risks
Lead Business advisories in coordination with relevant departments for control designs to manage risks associated with the existing and new business processes including project deployment
Work with local Management teams to implement and strengthen compliance culture across the region
Conduct quarterly Risk and Governance Council Meetings in collaboration with Information Security, Ethics & Compliance and Data Privacy Team.
- Expertly review financial information and highlighted business performance on a periodic basis to determine level of compliance with relevant statutes, rules, procedures, policies, and regulations.
- Ensure investment compliances on a regular basis along with verification of Accruals and expenses.
- Responsible for evaluating, developing, maintaining and updating Standard Operating procedures (SOPs) and ensuring that processes and controls are aligned with institutional accounting policies, regulatory compliance and accounting standards
- Establishing, Implementation and aligning of KYC and CDD practices in line with AML/CFT Act and Regulation and SECP directives.
- Carry out risk assessment of departmental functions along with newly developed products and provide recommendations to mitigate risks and strengthen controls.
- Developing and planning new products in line with Company’s Digitalization initiatives i.e. digitizing Account opening, Clients investment onboarding through KuickPay and Launching of new Mobile App.
- Planning, designing and implementing the financial structure of a new Private Equity Fund and REITs concerning the regulatory requirements along with financial forecasting for new investment opportunities.
- Member of IT Steering Committee to assess and improve IT Applications regarding upgradation, improvements and enhancing of IT security.
- Efficiently direct a motivated team of 12 members to streamline and supervise bank, receivables, payables, and Investments of funds under the management of HBL, Atlas Asset Management, Lakson Investments and ABL Asset Management Company Limited.
- Conduct thorough review and analysis of financial models used for acquisition of OMI Hospital and Application software based startup Bookme.pk and Knowledge Platform Limited.
- Ensure compliance with tax computation, weekly budget, and organization policy. Communicate with internal and external auditors, tax authorities and coordinating with clients to reconcile and verify account receivables/payables.
- Responsible for evaluating, developing, maintaining and updating internal controls and ensuring that processes and controls are aligned with institutional accounting policies, regulatory compliance and accounting standards
Key Highlights:
- Settled bank statement transactions in the accounting system to ensure accuracy and reliability of bank account balances and maintain balance sheets, reports, and profit or loss statements for monthly and yearly reporting.
- Expertly review financial information and highlighted business performance on a periodic basis to determine level of compliance with relevant statutes, rules, procedures, policies, and regulations.
- Proficiently supervise all financial matters, including weekly withholding tax, trustee/custodian, management, SECP, and auditors’ fee, sales load and other operational expenses.
- Examine annual and half yearly financial statements of 22 mutual funds and 4 pension funds, as well as supervised system integration between in-house ERP systems.
- Performed periodic compliance measures under NBFC regulations, voluntary pension schemes, and constitutive document of the relevant fund to assure compliance of day to day transactions.
- Performing reviews of internal processes and functions and accordingly recommend and implement internal audit control procedures.
- Produced outputs related to critical areas of the audit, including identifying risks, establishing objectives and scope of work, creating audit program, gathering observations and preparing audit reports, and performing the audit fieldwork.
Key Highlights:
- Ensured policy and regulatory compliance with key controls, integrity of records and application systems as well as pre-disbursement verification of credit documentation; detected operational, fraud and business losses.
- Direct a team of 3-member team to conduct compliance audits of CDC’s clients along with departmental audits, updated the internal audit manual, and recommended respective changes as per IIA and code of corporate governance.
- Carried out visits to evaluate organizations in accordance with CDC’s approved CSR criteria. Steered reviews to ensure compliance with the CDC Regulations and SECP directives.