Manager Assistant

Phone – Mobile +962-*********

E-mail: ********@*****.***

Ammar Taha Battah

Personal Information

Date of Birth: July 25th, 1970

Nationality: Jordanian.

Marital Status: Married.

Children: Two Daughters.

Education

1990-1994

Bachelor Degree of Business Administration- Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey.

Educational activities and other Certificates

Professional experience

Dec 2016 – Nov 2017

Dec 2014 - Nov 2016

2009 - 2014

2008 - 2009

1) (CIA) Uniform Certified internal Auditors Exam, one part remaining..

2) Member in the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)-USA

3) (CRMA) Currently preparing to take the Certified Risk

Management Assurance exam.

4) Attended CPA Baker Convisor review courses.

Pose 23 years experience in Auditing as following:

Head of Internal Audit for a holding company Rashed Al Rashed and Co. Consist of 35 subsidiaries specialized in contracting industry as well as retail of building materials and automobiles supplies in the eastern province of Saudi Arabi in Al Khbar city.

Director of Internal Audit for a Al Murjan Holding Company that has 6 subsidiaries of which each has its own business line - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as following – in addition to the Job Profile Pg.7- Pg.9 I took the lead in co-sourcing Risk Assessment and Risk Based Plan of three subsidiaries with Deloitte Co.:

1)Investments – Real Estate and Real Estate Development.

2)Car Rental – Vehicles Lease “Capital & Operational” with a fleet of 12,500 vehicles.

3)Retail Business - for a very well-known worldwide luxurious furniture brand.

4)Contracting - Assembling & maintaining water treatment, water desalination and sewage treatment units & filters.

5)Manufacturing - Production of liquid ink, chemical solvents and offset ink.

6)IT Solutions – Providing exclusive support for computer based health care system to hospitals ion both governmental and private sectors.

Head of Internal Audit & Risk Assessment Department for Alissa Holding Company, one of the biggest groups in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A holding company that controls five subsidiaries in the following industries:

1)Automotive “X General Motors”– Wholesaling and retailing as an exclusive distributor till year 2013 in KSA, this included spare parts and service workshops.

2)Automotive “Isuzu” – Wholesaling and retailing for famous Japanese Branded Vehicles as an exclusive distributor in KSA this included spare parts and service workshops.

3)Automotive “Autostar”- Wholesale and retail of other brands of vehicles

4)Alysser Financing Institution, ranking number 4 in terms of market share in Saudi Arabia.

5)BEST Rent a Car - Vehicles Lease with a fleet of 30,000 vehicles “Both Capital & Operating Leases”.

6)Alissa Holding Company is also subject for auditing.

Each of the above Companies has its own BOD and Audit Committee, for which the internal audit department is reporting to.

Internal Audit Section Head in Saudi Industrialization Projects Company – PEPSI COLA, Jeddah Saudi Arabia. Duties are following:

2002-2008

2001-2002

1995-2001

Evaluating policies and procedures of assigned engagements and provide the necessary recommendations when need to process owners.

Assist the concerned departments in designing their policies and procedures to ensure the existence and application of proper controls that mitigate risk and improve operations.

Classifying engagement projects as to degree of risk and significance and as to frequency of coverage and senior management inputs.

Planning the audit engagements “Risk Assessment, budgeting, resource allocations”

Ensuring engagements conformance with acceptable standards, plans, budgets, and schedules.

Scheduling projects and staff assigned so as to be responsive to management’s needs within the scope of the internal audit activity’s overall schedule.

Discuss review points with process owners and provide the Head of internal audit with the final draft of the audit reports for approval and issuance.

Was Hired by NBKS Holding Company, a very famous group of companies with 38 subsidiaries www.nbks.com in Doha, Qatar as a Senior Auditor, in 2002 was promoted to Audit Supervisor.

Engagements varied from financial, and compliance, to operational audit, where the activities of the group are:

Trading – Nasser Bin Khaled Group is Qatar's exclusive distributor in the following industries:

1. Automobiles –Five of the world's most respected, iconic brands: May Bach, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Harley Davidson, Kawasaki, and their related spare parts and workshops.

2. Fashion “clothing and accessories” of Quicksilver, Gusse, Francisco Smalto .

3. Medical and physiotherapy equipment.

4. Heavy equipment & machineries such as Case, Bomag, IR Montabert, Ausa, Astra, Hermans and Sweepster & John Ston Sweepers Motorcycles.

5. Agricultural equipment and services.

6. Michelin Tiers.

7. Bosch Household appliances.

Investments “equity, trading and available for sale” investments.

Manufacturing “Ready-mix concrete”

Contracting “buildings & Roads”, one of the biggest contracting companies in Qatar.

Consultation.

Tourism.

Fast food Restaurants.

Joint ventures.

Audit Supervisor- NBKS Holding Company, Doha Qatar.

Duties Include:

1)Ensure that the requested engagements add value to the organization and do not contradict with the internal audit activity charter.

2)Develop a comprehensive, practical audit program of engagement coverage for assigned areas.

3)Planning the audit engagement.

4)Evaluating internal control environment and spotlight weaknesses found on a sample test bases.

5)Evaluating accounting cycles and spotlighting weaknesses found during our sample based testing.

6)Supervising and reviewing the activities of staff assigned to the review of various organizational and functional activities.

7)Ensuring engagements conformance with acceptable standards, plans, budgets, and schedules.

8)Maintaining effective working relations with operating management.

9)Determining areas of risk and appraise their significance in relation to operational factors of cost, schedule, and quality.

10)Classifying engagement projects as to degree of risk and significance and as to frequency of coverage.

11)Scheduling projects and staff assigned so as to be responsive to management’s needs within the scope of the internal audit activity’s overall schedule.

12)Reviewing, editing, and approving engagement communications with senior-in-charge, to be discussed with appropriate management.

13)Presenting oral briefing to branch-level management as well as “in the absence of the Internal Audit Manager” BOD about the engagement findings.

Senior Auditor:

1)Conduct reviews of assigned organizational and functional activities.

2)Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of the management controls over those activities.

3)Determine whether organizational units are performing their planning, accounting, custodial, risk management, or control activities in compliance with management instructions, applicable statements of policy and procedures, and in a manner consistent with both organizational objectives and high standards of administrative practice.

4)Evaluate a system’s effectiveness through the application of knowledge of business systems, including financial, manufacturing, engineering, procurement, and other operations, and an understanding of engagement techniques.

5)Obtain, analyze, and appraise information as a basis for an informed, objective conclusion “opinion” on the adequacy and effectiveness of the system and the efficiency of performance of the activities being reviewed.

6)Plan and execute engagement in accordance with accepted standards, including the procedures to be used, audit programs, the statistical sampling methods, and the use of information technology.

7)Prepare the formal written communication.

8)Perform special reviews at the request of management.

9)Direct the activities of assistants and review their working papers.

Expert Audit Trainer with GTZ, Republic of Yemen- General Organization of Controlling & Auditing. Duties:

1)To train auditors how to plan the audit process.

2)To train auditors on selecting the audit samples.

3)To train auditors the process of how to prepare the working papers of audit files.

4)To train auditors in the field of how to execute audit process in the selected companies/ministries.

The field subject mentioned above refers to the engagements to be audited and includes:

Government ministries.

Public companies.

Joint venture companies.

Oil companies.

Banks.

Insurance companies.

Industrial enterprises.

Agriculture enterprises.

Deloitte Touche Thomatsu International (DTTI), Riyadh -Saudi Arabia.

Senior Auditor 1999-2001

Semi-Senior Auditor 1997-1998

Assistant Auditor Assistant Auditor 1995-1997

Languages

Arabic: (Mother Language) Fluently spoken and written

English: Fluently spoken and written

Personal Skills

Computer literate, Microsoft Office

A+ Audit Software System

AS2 Audit Software System

Teamate Audit Software System

ACL System

SAP User

Holding Driving license from (Jordan, Saudi Arabia, & Qatar)

In addition to the job profile mentioned, I took the leadership and project ownership for a co-sourced audit engagement with Deloitte "Risk Assessment and Internal Audit Risk Based Plan" for three major entities of the Group.

Area of Accountabilities

Head of Internal Audit Job Profile

1.Departmental Planning & Risk Assessment:

Develop an annual risk based plan for the group of companies in accordance with the Institute of Internal Auditors Standards

Assessing specific risks, internal control risks, and compliance risks, and provide senior management with proper recommendation to mitigate and manage them.

Evaluation of the effectiveness and contribute to the improvement of corporate governance, risk management and internal controls.

Identify key risk areas and reporting material weaknesses directly to Audit Committee and BOD.

Evaluation of potential fraud areas, and evaluate managements’ mitigation, detection, and correction activities in their regard.

Provide assurance that risks acceptability levels are within the group risk appetite.

Provide the Audit Committee with annual closing report that gives an overall evaluation of internal controls for each company.

Regularly reviews the Corporate Governance and provides recommendations that add value to the overall organization operations.

Meet with audit committees of all companies each quarter to update them with the progress of the audit plan, and if any for amendments to be approved.

Continuously assess internal controls and financial risks of business and operations of subsidiaries and provide advisories to top management on how to mitigate and manage them and to keep risk register updated.

Provide the CEO, BOD’s, and Audit Committee with a summary report of high-level risk issues on a monthly basis.

Conduct opening and closing meetings with process owners.

Delivers high quality, audit and advisory services that fulfil the departmental mandate, whilst managing client expectations.

Identifies and promotes modern audit practices, including use of on-line/ computer-assisted audit tools.

Establishes Key Performance Indicators, and captures relevant information, for measuring and reporting on the performance and organization impact of the Internal Audit function.

Ensure annual audit plans has contingency built in, to provide unexpected audits to clients as they may surface, and may conducts special assignments as determined by the Audit Committee.

Develops the department’s budget.

Approve audit programs and ensures they provide a means to achieve engagements objectives.

Conduct opening and closing meetings with process owners for final issuance of audit report.

Mentors and advices audit managers.

Determine planning materiality.

Perform final risk analytical procedures

Participate with audit committee in the selection process of the external auditors.

2.Audit planning Assignments

Plans consolidated quarterly audit calendar.

Implements audit calendar, assigns staff, reviews work programs, monitors audits in progress.

Reviews the quality, completeness and documentation of audit work, the validity of findings/conclusions and practicality of recommendations.

Reviews findings in draft audit reports after the audit supervisor/ manager has incorporated the comments/action plans of the client in the final audit report.

Consults with all levels of Management and builds consensus on critical policy, internal controls and process related matters in order to achieve desired improvements in business efficiency and risk mitigation.

Ensures that policies & procedures manuals are being reviewed by the respective audit supervisor/ manager and input is provided as to their adequacy.

3.Management Reports

Final audit reports submitted directly to the BOD & Audit Committee and attend the Audit Committee meetings.

Discussing “Reports for discussion” version with process owners to get their feedback and confirm the audit points prior to issuance of final audit report version.

Submits Internal Audit work plan on annual basis with quarterly updates incorporating any changes to the approved annual work plan.

Submits quarterly report on work achievements compared to the approved plan.

Submits quarterly report on implementation status of key critical risk areas and other major audit findings related to policies, internal controls, risks and process issues.

4.Achievement of Business Plan objectives:

Contributes to the achievement of Group’s objectives through compliance audits, risk assessment reviews and “advisory services as determined by BOD & Audit Committee, taking into consideration of not affecting the internal audit department’s independency”.

Ensure that business plan is achieved within the budgeted time and resources and provide a budget progress report to the Audit Committee.

Ensure the competency and capacity of the internal audit staff to achieve the department’s objectives.

5.Staff Management & Knowledge Transfer:

Manage and oversee team performance through performance planning, coaching and performance appraisals

Provide ongoing feedback to the team to ensure they develop the skills and competencies required for effective planning and individual professional and personal career growth.

Mentors and supervises staff providing on-the-job training in order to develop skills.

Deal with performance issues, discipline as necessary and address poor standards, ensuring department targets and customer satisfaction is not compromised.

Motivate and inspire the team by providing them with the information and tools they need to do their jobs well and meet customer expectations.

Manage the head count, recruiting and deploying resources as required, to ensure the department budget is balanced and the right mix of skills and strengths are being leveraged as effectively as possible.

Hold direct reports accountable for managing and developing their assignments to ensure the department’s goals are achieved and customers satisfied.

Develops and implements a continuing education program to maintain and improve audit staff skills.

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