Saad Waheed Email & Phone Number

Islamabad, Pk

Islāmābād, Pakistan

• Responsible for leading advisory assignments as the technical manager for the engagement.• Planned and delivered IT Audit services for External Financial Statement Audits for clients managed by KPMGIslamabad Office, focusing on June and December year-end audits.• Conducted IT Audit Quality Reviews for cross-location IT Audit engagements.• Managed IT Audit QPR, including finding defense and rectification.• Assessed the client’s technology environment supporting financial, operational systems, and related businessprocesses.• Possessed experience in external auditing, including the inspection and evaluation of controls over financial andIT operational processes.• Train resources on how to perform IT Audit.• Identified and assessed any risks to the system.• Made recommendations for improvement.• Identified any risks to the systems.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

• Assessed the Information Technology General Controls (ITGCs) of the system.• Responsible for leading the Advisory assignment “3rd Party Evaluation of SAP AMIS” for the Office of Auditor General of Pakistan.• Led a team of experts to assess the SAP AMIS system that was being used by the Office of Auditor General of Pakistan.• Identified and assessed any risks to the system.• Made recommendations for improvement.• Led a team of experts to assess the implementation of two IT systems: Oracle EBS and SAP B2B.• Assessed the effectiveness of the implementation process.• Identified any risks to the systems.• Responsible for leading the IT Audit Services department at KPMG Islamabad, Lahore, and Karachi in Workload Distribution.• Ensured that the IT Audit Services department was able to meet the needs of all of its clients.• Allocated resources effectively.• Ensured that the department was staffed with the right mix of skills and experience.Key Clients Served:• PMCL(Jazz)• PTML(Ufone)• PTCL• CMPak(Zong)• Transworld• PC and Marriot Hotels(Hashoo Group)• Serena Hotels(TPS)• Utility Stores Corporations• NADRA

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

IT Audit and Advisory:IT Professional with experience in performing IT Audits and Third-Party Risk Assessments to achieve Operating Effectiveness Testing and Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of the Information System. Within-depth knowledge of ITGCs and Business process controls design and implementation, Audit and Accountability, Compliance Testing, Risk Assessment, Security Maintenance, and Incident Response. Good attention to detail skills and comfortable in complex client control environments. Great at multitasking and flexibility with prioritization.Following is the work performed on these clients/engagements:• Working as an IT Auditor and IT Advisory and promoting the company's business according to the company’s requirements.• Checking loopholes for different clients to ensure their systems' security.• IT General Control reviews - Assessing and testing internal controls over clients' financial systems either as part of a systems implementation and/or as part of an external audit.• IT External Audit - Provide value-added and relevant analyses of an organization's internal control structure, performance, productivity, and efficiency,• Application control testing - In order to determine that the organization’s application controls are designed appropriately and operating effectively. • Reviewed control procedures for Interfaces between two/ three separate applications.• Reviewed accuracy, completeness, and integrity of Aging Reports (Inventory, Stocks, Provision, Loan Interest, etc.) • Inventory and Material Management (3-Way Check: PO, Invoice and GRN reconciliation, Inventory Aging) • Fixed Assets and Depreciation (Accuracy of Depreciation) • Revenue and Sales (Sales Order Generation, Sales Order Approvals, and Sales Order Processing Checks) • Reviewed D&I (Design & Implementation) and OE (Operational Effectiveness) testing procedures for assessing ITGCs surrounding business applications.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

• Communicating Network Outages to the higher management and act as a Shift Lead• Managing teams involved in Network Blocking & ensuring smooth execution • Fault/Incident management, FLM & escalation and follow-up of unresolved issues with BO teams until resolution.• Tracking and closure of planned activities on CORE NEs as per change management process.• Preparation of reports and presentation for daily/weekly management and customer review.• Ensuring proper shift handover to the next shift for unresolved issues.• Follow ups of all the activities that are being executed on SMS, Emails and verbal coordination with performers and raising issues to TP FOPs and ZTE management • Detailed KPI monitoring and performance analysis on daily and weekly basis. • Monitoring and reporting critical and fault alarms.• Data (Access & Packet Core) KPI reporting on daily/weekly/fortnightly and monthly basis• Incident Ownership & ensuring follow-up with BO teams until resolution.• Excluding the impact of all 3G Rollout/ Swap activities by calculating outage duration & ensuring its exclusion from FOPS KPI of TCH availability on daily basis.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan

• Ensuring maximum availability of BSS Network resources. • Figuring out factors affecting the network quality adversely and preparing recommendations in this regard. • Coordinating and resolving service affecting issues that are mutual among Core Network, Transmission and BSS entities which include fault analysis & follow up with field engineers till rectification of fault. • Ensure SLA compliance toward vendor as well as internal stakeholders. • Follow ups of all the activities that are being executed on SMS, Emails and verbal coordination with performers and raising issues to TP FOPs and ZTE management.• Devising SOPs for Nokia Swap Project Implementation of Incident Management and Change • Effective network surveillance and fault management of RAN entities i.e. RNC/BSC & Node B, BTS.• Managing various projects such as ZTE VEGA Swap Project, ZTE 3G Upgradation & Rectifier Project.• Process Alignment/Improvement.• Coordination with all the stake holders including Back Office, Field & Implementation Teams for resolution of any issue.

Islamabad

• Detailed KPI monitoring and performance analysis on daily and weekly basis.• Monitoring and reporting critical and fault alarms.• Generating Daily, weekly and quarterly optimization and operation Core Network Reports including APN Data Volume, Trouble Ticket report, Weekly Packet Switching Core Report.• Automation of number of reports in PS Core.• Data (Access & Packet Core) KPI reporting on daily/weekly/fortnightly and monthly basis.• Responsible for reporting of the major network KPIs to reflect network performance• Spares auditing and movement to sites• Health Check report of PS-node.