Experience

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  National Real Estate Company

  • Kuwait

  • Head of Internal Audit

    • Mar 2014 - Present
    • Kuwait

    Established Risk-Based internal audit function, providing insight in control over operations and performance optimization.Rendered insight and support to the Executive Management and the Board of Directors in developing and applying a sound Internal Control System.

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  Kuwait Small Projects Development Company

  • Kuwait

  • Risk Management Dept. Manager

    • Mar 2009 - Feb 2014
    • Kuwait

    The company's main activity is to promote creation of small projects through the Venture Capital financing method. Accordingly, the company is a partner in all the projects financed. As a Risk Management Dept. Manager, my scope of work encompasses performing review of the company's own financial risk and operations risk.In addition to the above I am responsible on designing corrective controls in all the projects financed through performing risk review of these projects and prescribing the corrective actions necessary.Quantitative and qualitative methods are used in performance of the review process, these methods encompass financial statement analysis, cost and financing schemes analysis, financial projection and forecasting, operations and internal control systems analysis, based on the result of which corrective actions are designed.

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  Al Aman Investment Company

  • Internal Audit and Risk Management Dept. Manager

    • Mar 2007 - Feb 2009

  • Executive Manager

    • Mar 2007 - Feb 2009

    My role in a newly starting company was to first create a Control Environment through establishing a Corporate Governance for the Company with all its components and requirements and help the BOD and all departments in applying these requirements.On the level of Risk Management my duty was to create a risk awareness and risk controlled environment that has an acceptable risk level, and creating a relevant Risk Management policy and related policies and procedures which enable the company to cope with the risks effectively and efficiently. Risk management activity was concerned mainly with establishing policies and procedures for the risky business units, such as portfolio management, funds management, direct investment departments

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  KPMG / Moore Stephens International

  • Manager

    • Jun 2004 - Feb 2007

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  KPMG / MSI

  • Manager

    • Apr 2004 - Feb 2007

    As a manager in KPMG and Moore Stephens International Kuwait I was responsible on managing the render of full range of internal audit services to clients, these services were rendered according to KPMG and MSI internal audit methodologies. This gave me extensive understanding of their Internal Audit methodologies and gave me an ample chance to be trained on applying these methodologies on the clients served from a manger perspective.Due to my extensive experience in the Islamic Operations, my main responsibility was to handle all the Islamic Investment Companies clients served by the firm, this resulted in vast exposure to numerous applications of the Islamic transactions and contracts.

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  Internal Auditor, Anti_Money Laundering Officer

  • Kuwait Finance House - Internal Auditor/Anti-Money Laundering Officer

    • Sep 1998 - Mar 2004

    Internal Auditing scope of work includes evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of the operations of the audited departments, which strengthened my business oriented analytical skills. My duties as an internal auditor skilled my experience in the fields of Internal Control Systems analysis and review, identification of weakness points, and design of mitigating controls, Compliance, Effectiveness and efficiency, Operations and Financial risk.Beginning July 2003, I moved to the Anti-Money Laundering & Terrorism Finance Combat Unit in KFH - my duties in this unit included the following in addition to the above mentioned duties, complying with the Central Bank of Kuwait instructions and the global best practice in the Anti-Money Laundering, and performing compliance reviews on the bank operations.Working in KFH established a profound understanding of the Islamic Banking, Investment & Commercial activities. KFH is a fully computerized environment, which gave me the chance to perform audits on fully computerized environments and review the controls among such systems and understand the implementation of the controls and structure of such systems in big scale transactions entities.

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  Ernst & Young - Kuwait

  • Auditor

    • Aug 1996 - Jun 1998

    During working in this reputable audit firm I acquired the essential skills required for auditing and understood the various auditing techniques and approaches of this firm.That in addition to the chance of exposure to variety of business types, ranging between Banks, Investment, Real Estate, Oil and Gas, Trading, and Manufacturing, that enabled me to comprehend the characteristics of accounting cycles and their unique accounting methods

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  Price Waterhouse - Cairo

  • Auditor

    • May 1995 - Aug 1996

    During working in these reputable audit firms I acquired the essential skills required for auditing and understood the various auditing techniques and approaches of those big firms.That in addition to the chance of exposure to variety of business types, ranging between Banks, Investment, Real Estate, Oil and Gas, Trading, and Manufacturing, that enabled me to comprehend the characteristics of accounting cycles and their unique accounting methods

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  Accountant

  • Egytrans Cairo - Accountant

    • Aug 1991 - Apr 1995

    Working in Egytrans as an accountant helped me acquire the basic understanding of the whole accounting cycle, the relationship between its elements then finally preparation of the financial statements at the end of the cycle.