Experience

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  St Christopher's

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • Patient and Family Support Volunteer

    • Jan 2022 - Present
    • London, England, United Kingdom

    I volunteer in the following roles at one the leading end of life organisations in the world: Living Well at Home Team - helping patients living at home to achieve their physical rehabilitation goals.In Patient Unit Volunteer - providing practical and emotional support to patients staying at the hospice and their families and friendsPeer Learning Support Volunteer - using my training and communication skills and human experience to facilitate training sessions for members of the community who are carers or who have suffered loss.

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  Dilip Varma

  • Experienced audit and financial reporting regulator and accountancy trainer

    • May 2019 - Present

    Undertaking consultancy assignments and training projects. To date I have assisted Auditquality Consultants in the provision of consulting advice to a client, and provided consultancy and training services to the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board.

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  Financial Reporting Council

  • United Kingdom
  • Accounting
  • 400 - 500 Employee

  • Project Manager, Professional Oversight, Audit Division

    • Apr 2015 - May 2019

    Oversight of the regulation by the professional accountancy bodies of statutory audit though the FRC's role as the competent authority for the regulation of statutory audit. Extensive involvement in the FRC's work on implementation of the EU Audit Regulation and Directive in 2016.

  • Case Officer - Financial Reporting Review Panel/ Corprorate Reporting Review

    • Jan 2006 - Mar 2015

    Review of the financial statements and annual reports of public and large private companies for compliance with relevant legal requirements.

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  MDA Training

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Consultant>Senior Consultant>Principal Consultant

    • Sep 1994 - Dec 2005
    • London, United Kingdom

    Globally operating tailored financial training consultancy with a focus on innovative and practical training solutions for an international blue chip client base. I focused on financial analysis and credit training for globally operating investment and corporate banks, fund managers, rating agencies and corporates.

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  The Financial Training Company (now Kaplan)

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Senior Tutor

    • 1987 - Aug 1994
    • London, United Kingdom

    One of the largest private UK Accountancy tuition companies. I trained student chartered accountants through their professional examination courses. .

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  Grand Metropolitan Group plc

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Management Accountant Special Operations Division Berni & Host Group

    • 1986 - 1987
    • London, United Kingdom

    Management accounting and line reporting role in the new ventures division of of a leading hospitality group

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  Hamleys of London

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Chief Accountant

    • 1984 - 1986
    • London, United Kingdom

    Member of the senior executive team and responsible for the finance team and for line reporting to the parent company (Debenhams plc)

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  KPMG (Peat Marwick Mitchell London Office)

  • Audit Senior

    • Jul 1983 - Jun 1984

    Fully qualified audit senior with responsibility for a range of audit assignments

  • Student chartered accountant under training contract

    • Sep 1980 - Jun 1983

    Student chartered accountant in the London office of Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. I worked on a range of audit and insolvency assignments.