Ibrahim Malik

(Promoted from Audit Senior, Audit Associate and Audit Assistant)

• Applied a strong understanding of IFRS and UK GAAP reporting standards to audit the financial statements of 20+ clients, checking for accuracy and compliance with the standards.
• Performed substantive sampling and testing over financial statement line balances and assessed management's judgements and assumptions in preparing the accounts.
• Played a key role in improving the efficiency of a historically overrunning engagement by reducing the audit timeline by 50% in the first year and a further 15% in the following year while maintaining quality.
• Leveraged data analytics tools to analyse trends in financial balances and identify key areas of audit risk.
• Took a leading role throughout the audit process including in the planning stage, interim testing, year-end trial balance testing, statutory adjustment testing and tie-throughs of the financial statements.
• Acted as the main point of contact with client management, audit specialists and support teams and built strong client relationships in remote and on-site audit environments.
• Led audit engagement teams of up to 4 people, mentored junior team members on audit best practices and guided them through audit tasks.
• Conducted walkthroughs of business processes to assess control effectiveness and recommend improvements.
• Supported various teams with ad-hoc tasks including obtaining bank confirmations for bank balances and liaising with pension specialists.

• Utilised QuickBooks for efficient and accurate double-entry bookkeeping