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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Responsible to lead the delivery of risk-based Internal Audit assignments, in accordance with the internal audit plan for Finance & Operational review and provide assurance to respective Business Function with value-added recommendations around efficiency, effectiveness or economy of operations and related control processes.Finalize the Annual Internal Audit Plan in consultation with Head of Audit and management. Responsible to work and develop plan for key risks face by Business Function and prioritizes audit to cover such risks.Manages the Internal Audit budget and delivers on the annual internal audit plan through both internal and outsourced /co-sourced resources as required based on project needs. Responsible for project management, time management and cost management for audit assignmentsResponsible to lead and govern the ad-hoc audits as required by Audit Committee or Business Functions and provides assistance and advice to management on an ongoing basis on matters of internal control relating to both future and current operations, and promotes the establishment of best practices.Support the team to obtain concurrence on observations, risk ratings and management action plans wherever required. Effectively communicate and report audit status and findings to senior management and the Audit Committee. Focus-on and promote Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to ensure permanent and systemic fixtures to issues identifiedContributes to the safeguarding of corporate assets and the interests of shareholders by ensuring that appropriate internal controls are in place and operating effectively. Assesses and accounts for the potential for fraud risk and identifies common types of fraud associated with the organization and internal audit engagement.

Lagos, Nigeria

Improve and implement a revenue assurance and fraud management strategy to prevent revenue leakages and fraud. Continually ensure the completeness and charging accuracy of all active products and services.Development of financial and non-financial measures of business performance for evaluation and control of projects and products. Assisting business units in their budgeting, planning process and pricing process.Develop financial reports for trending and results analysis. Providing financial advice and support to the business team to enable sound business decisions. Implementation of revenue assurance & fraud management tool and automated test event generator which reduced losses due to configuration of products and services.Development of reports to track cell site wise revenue, subscriber, revenue, MOU, Incentive payout and RPM trends and providing suggestions for revenue enhancement.

Gurgaon, India

Worked extensively with multiple telecom operators on various projects related to fraud risk management and risk consulting.Review of internal control procedure for various operational process & identifying weakness, assessment of risk, root cause analysis for process deficiency and giving suggestions to improve present system.

Hyderabad Area, India

Headed the revenue assurance (RA) and fraud Management (FMS) operation of GSM business of Telecom Company and was involved in successful setup and running of revenue assurance operation function . Designing, developing and implementing checks and controls to prevent the revenue leakage in systems as a ongoing activity in Telecom Company and its review on regular basis. Analyzing the New Product from financial and technical perspective and clearing the same for commercial launch.Built revenue assurance checks and controls around Prepaid , Postpaid ,VAS ,Roaming ,GPRS ,3G services , MNP and Mobile money .

Gurgaon, India

Product Wise, Destination Wise and Customer Segment Wise margin / Profitability analysis and giving input to the Marketing /Traffic Management Team for action. Allocation of Switch Interconnect cost (Fixed Plus Variable cost) to the various Business unit and products to find out Segment/Product wise profitability for various analysis and decision making. Transition of reporting processes and requirement from Europe to India and their successful execution / Value addition from India

Indore Area, India

User Acceptance Testing, Configuration validation for new features/services of Postpaid and prepaid Product and giving the clearances for the same.Identifying the probable sources of revenue leakages and Exercise Internal Controls on Critical Processes/Activities, which are prone to revenue loss and ensuring that this does not result in revenue loss and ensuring the adherence to the process and policies. Built revenue assurance checks and controls around Prepaid , Postpaid and VAS Revenue Enhancement Activities, Plugging of Revenue Leakages, Trend Analysis of Revenue Register and Reports to control ARPU of Products and monitoring waiver mechanism of Customer Accounting Team. Traffic Analysis of NLD/ILD through MOU and analyzing the reason for variation in Actual revenue as compared to the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) /last period revenue.

New Delhi Area, India

Review of internal control procedure for various operational systems& identifying weakness, Assessment of risk, Root cause analysis off audit finding and giving suggestions to improve present system. Review of accounting systems and books of accounts and other records with special emphasis on compliance with statutory requirements.Review of financial statements in contexts of truth and fairness and preparation of auditor’s reports.

Applied Data Science, Data Science

Activities and Societies: Data Science, Python programming

Certified Fraud Examiner (Cfe), Fraud Investigation

Chartered Accountant, Audit

B.Com(H), Accounting And Finance