- Conduct of assigned audit engagements successfully from beginning to end.
- Identification and communication of issues raised, offering recommended solutions relevant to business and risk.
- Supervision of junior auditors assigned to engagements providing guidance and overall review of deliverables.
- Checking that the financial statements are in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and SOCPA.
- Ensure adequate focus on personal professional growth relevant to taking on more challenging assignments, in line with standard audit career progression – proactively seeks relevant Education and training opportunities.
- Develop audit programs and testing procedures relevant to risk and test objectives.
- Prepare audit file through “Caseware Working Papers”.

Joined KPMG Pakistan as Audit Assistant in December 2012 and since then have worked in the capacity of Audit Assistant, Semi Senior, Senior Auditor. I was involved in the planning, performing and reviewing audits of various local and multinational clients including manufacturing, non-profit, education and service organisations.

Key areas of experience and responsibilities:
- Performing audits of various multinational and local companies. Has also been involved in statutory audits under local regulations in accordance with the Instructions of Group Auditors for KPMG Global Clients ensuring a sound risk management and effective internal control environment.
- Obtaining an understanding of client’s business objectives and strategies in the context of industry and environment in which the client operates in order to identify strategic business risks.
- Identifying financial statement risks and financial statement controls and testing appropriate controls.
- Planning and performing audit procedures.
- Extensive exposure of international as well as national accounting and auditing standards.
- Preparation of standalone and consolidated Financial Statements.
- Conduct of audit of financial statements, which included planning, organizing, and controlling the entire job, ensuring compliance of financial statements with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and other applicable local laws and regulations.
- Monitoring and evaluation of systems and underlying records of financial statements assertions.
- Assessment of client’s business and internal control risk.
- Understanding the client’s internal control systems with the objective of recommending improvements.
- Involvement in non-audit assignments under the framework design by relevant regulatory authorities.

In recognition of my long service at KPMG Taseer Hadi& Co. Chartered Accountants Pakistan, I was seconded to KPMG Bahrain for the period of three months.My responsibilities include planning, performing and reviewing audits of various clients in Bahrain.

Key areas of experience and responsibilities:

- Prepare and assist managers in planning, pre-audit analysis, development of audit programs and risk registers.
- Assessing risks and internal controls to identify areas of non-compliance, evaluating manual and automated financial processes.
- Identifying process weaknesses and inefficiencies in the view to improve and propose value-added recommendations.
- Checking that the financial statements are in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and Bahraini Law.
- Perform statutory audits of areas assigned and preparation of financial statements and related disclosures.
- Identify control and process weaknesses, documenting main control points and provided evidential support for report recommendations.
- Present and communicate to management audit progress and findings by providing information and conclusions of audit reviews in status meetings, highlight unresolved issues and prepare working papers.
- Maintain respectful relationships and effective communications with management and staff of areas under review.

Jamshoro Joint Venture Limited is Pakistan’s largest private-sector gas processor. Joined JJVL as Accountant in February 2011 and since then have worked in the capacity of Accountant, and Senior Accountant. I managed the accounts of the Company and was involved in key financial decisions.

Key areas of experience and responsibilities:
- Preparation and recording asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
- Maintaining and balancing subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolving discrepancies.
- Maintaining general ledger by transferring subsidiary accounts; preparing a trial balance; reconciling entries.
- Summarizing financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss, and other statements.
- Completing external audit by analyzing and scheduling general ledger accounts; providing information for auditors.
- Avoiding legal challenges by complying with legal requirements.