Muhammad Abdullah Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Assisting senior leadership in planning engagements and identifying audit risks.• Analyzing and understanding clients' business and regulatory environment for the execution of risk-based audit strategies.• Efficiently managing engagements within budget constraints and building strong client relationships.• Effectively leading audit teams (comprising of 10-15 individuals), ensuring coaching and professional development of junior staff.• Decision making for timely resolution of the critical audit and accounting issues.• Execution of the audit strategy and timely communicating issues to senior leadership for resolution.• Coordinating with internal and external experts, including tax, legal, actuarial, valuers, and IT auditors for timely conclusion of the audit procedures on specialized areas.• Reviewing the work performed by audit team, ensuring documentary requirements and compliance with applicable standards.• Reviewing the financial statements and ensuring compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), GAAP, and other regulatory requirements.• Delivering high quality audits within strict deadlines, and as per the applicable standards.• Assessment of the internal controls for identification of design and operational deficiencies and providing recommendations for improvement.• Performing analytical procedures (including variance analysis) to ensure that the conclusions reached are appropriate as per the audit execution.• Leading and successfully executing various engagements to ensure compliance with local legal and regulatory requirements, including Shari’ah audits of banks, assurance on the Statement of Compliance with the Code of Corporate Governance, Statement of Free Float of Shares, and agreed-upon procedures engagements. • Preparing deliverables, including audit reports, communications to those charged with governance and the management regarding critical accounting and auditing issues.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Led a team of 80 individuals as a member of the Executive Council for successful conduction of Aspiring Professionals’ Summit (APS), an accounting-based event, and various other events.• Awarded Publication Award at LASA (LUMS Annual Society Awards) for useful contribution in the publication of LSPA's first ever accountancy and business based magazine• Supervised and worked closely with the departments to adapt all the events and processes for a virtual setting.• Coordinated with the university offices for budget related activities, procurement of supplies, etc. • Introduced new evaluation and feedback mechanisms for promotions, particularly for the new Executive Council

• Defined the scope and terms of actions of the project, as it was launched for the first time• Successfully planned and managed thoroughly (from social media management to logistics) to conduct a research-based panel talk comprising of accountancy and industry professionals• Led a team to research contemporary issues of accountancy, finance, business, and economics to prepare content for LSPA's magazine

I have acted as a Teaching Assistant (TA) for the following courses: • ACCT 100 | Principles of Financial Accounting (Fall 19) • ACCT 370 | Applied Taxation (Spring 20)• FINN 200 | Intermediate Finance (Fall 20)• ACCT 320 | Corporate Financial Reporting-2 (Spring 21)As a Teaching Assistant, I played the role as following:• Coordinated with the instructors in delivering the course content and managing class records (marks, attendance, etc.)• Delivered tutorials and held office hours regularly to rectify student’s problems in the course.• Acted as a liaison between the instructor and students for announcements, and other communications

Lahore, Pakistan

• Single-handedly performed stock counts at various warehouses of the client in Lahore and Faisalabad.• Performed various audit procedures to test controls in the area of cash and bank, receivables, and purchases – cumulatively worth more than PKR 200 million– within tight deadlines.• Communicated frequently with the client for the retrieval of important documents, such as, bank statements, GRNs, reconciliations, etc.

Associate Chartered Accountant (Aca)

Qualified CA with first-time passes in a record time of 1.5 years

Member

• Strategic Business Reporting (Global Prizewinner) • Strategic Business Leadership • Advanced Audit & Assurance • Advanced Financial.

B.Sc. (Hons) Accounting And Finance, 3.80 (Cgpa)

• Graduated with High Distinction Award for excellent academic performance throughout the program • Placed in Dean's Honor List.

Fsc, Pre-Engineering

Matric, Science