IDRIS AHMED
Birmingham,West Midlands
Summary
Exceptional chartered accountant and auditor with extensive experience in carrying out external audits, control reviews and other assurance services for medium to large businesses in different sectors. Demonstrate high drive and resilience towards undertaking new challenges, problem-solving, and identification of efficient and effective approaches to complete tasks, coupled with a willingness to constantly develop myself and less experienced team members. Competently drives compliance with regulatory requirements, improves internal control, reduces financial and operational risk, and ensures financial reporting complies with relevant accounting and auditing standards. Maintains and builds healthy stakeholders and clients’ relationships. Currently works with PWC Birmingham as a Senior Associate II.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Senior Audit Associate II
Pricewaterhousecoopers (PWC)
01.2022 - 06.2025
- Led teams across various entities in performing audit of financial statements.
- Referred reporting audit engagements.
- Budget preparation and engagement project management.
- Reviewed IFRS financial statements.
- Performed independence checks, relationship checks as part of planning procedures for audit engagements.
- Set up interactive google trackers with relevant tasks to keep track of engagement progress.
- Lead engagement team meetings with several clients to resolve pending audit issues.
- Lead the planning, execution, and reporting on audit engagements.
- Analyzed clients’ financial statements and budget forecasts using excel tools such as pivot tables, VLOOKUP, ACL analytics and other tools such as PowerBI.
- Evaluated deferred tax, income, and non-income tax computations.
- Performed effective risk and control assessments.
- Performed substantive test procedures on account balances, financial transactions, and operations.
- Completed assigned task on time and submit reports to audit assistant manager/manager.
- Team lead on diverse audit engagements with job portfolio of clients with a combined revenue of over £2Billion ranging across different sectors.
- Review audit working papers, develop audit plans and programs and coach of staff.
- Coordinating resource allocation and audit team to achieve business objective.
- Proactively interact with key client’s management to gather information, resolve problems, and make recommendations for business and process improvements.
- Review and assess client’s impact assessment for new accounting standards.
- Analyze accounting processes and internal control framework to evaluate compliance with relevant financial reporting and regulatory framework.
- Perform effective risk and control assessment procedures by understanding the entity and its environment, determining materiality, performing preliminary analytical reviews.
- Lead meetings with key client contacts to gain an in-depth understanding of the operational and accounting processes of the company and documented these processes in narratives and flow charts.
- Apply IAS and IFRS reporting requirements to assess and conclude upon management’s assertion on the financial statement.
- Prepare/review financial statements and fund accountability statements.
- Performed analytical procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of financial results.
- Present audit findings and recommended ways to increase compliance and efficiency.
- Reports directly to the Audit Manager/Senior manager/Director/Partner.
- Portfolio base of 50% Consumer and Industrial Products, 15% Technology sector, 15% Real estate and property development, 20% Aerospace, and 10%.
Audit Senior
Deloitte & Touché
01.2021 - 06.2025
- Led teams across various entities in performing audit of financial statements.
- Prepared IFRS financial statements.
- Lead the planning, execution, and reporting on audit engagements.
- Analyzed clients’ financial statements and budget forecasts using excel tools such as pivot tables, vlookup, ACL analytics and other tools such as PowerBI.
- Evaluated deferred tax, income, and non-income tax computations.
- Performed effective risk and control assessments.
- Performed substantive test procedures on account balances, financial transactions, and operations.
- Completed assigned task on time and submit reports to audit assistant manager/manager.
- Team lead on diverse audit engagements with job portfolio of clients with a combined revenue of $300million ranging across different sectors.
- Review audit working papers, develop audit plans and programs and coach of staff.
- Coordinating resource allocation and audit team to achieve business objective.
- Proactively interact with key client’s management to gather information, resolve problems, and make recommendations for business and process improvements.
- Review and assess client’s impact assessment for new IFRS’s such as IFRS 16 and IFRS 15.
- Analyze accounting processes and internal control framework to evaluate compliance with relevant financial reporting and regulatory framework.
- Perform effective risk and control assessment procedures by understanding the entity and its environment, determining materiality, performing preliminary analytical reviews.
- Lead meetings with key client contacts to gain an in-depth understanding of the operational and accounting processes of the company and documented these processes in narratives and flow charts.
- Apply IAS and IFRS reporting requirements to assess and conclude upon management’s assertion on the financial statement.
- Prepare/review financial statements and fund accountability statements.
- Performed analytical procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of financial results.
- Present audit findings and recommended ways to increase compliance and efficiency.
- Reports directly to the Audit Manager/Director/Partner.
- Portfolio base of 75% Consumer and Industrial Products, 15% Non for Profit/Governmental, 10% Oil & Gas.
Associate 1 -2, Audit
Deloitte & Touché
01.2019 - 12.2020
- Performed effective risk and internal control assessments by completing walkthroughs of business processes, preparing process flow charts and testing design and implementation of controls.
- Performed substantive test procedures on account balances, financial transactions, and operations.
- Completed assigned task on time and submit reports to audit-in-charge/manager.
- Present audit findings and proffer ways to increase compliance and efficiency.
- Conducted inventory counts at clients’ locations to ensure physical inventory match with inventory per the accounting records.
Team Lead Financial transaction
First Bank of Nigeria Limited
01.2018 - 12.2019
- Leading a team of financial transaction officers do deliver on customers request as it relates to cash deposits, funds transfer and other financial related issues.
- Verifying and authorizing transfers for customers and 3rd party above a set threshold.
- Making funds transfers and cash postings into the automated teller machine database.
- Verifying vouchers of tellers through daily call overs.
- Generating account statements on customer’s request.
- Set up mobile applications for fund transfers and attend to customer complaints on financial transaction related matters.
- Perform other account maintenance activities.
Qualified Tax Associate
Ijewere & co Chartered Accountants
01.2017 - 12.2018
- Payroll Analysis and computation of PAYE tax payable.
- Filing of Tax Returns with the relevant tax authorities.
- Application for Tax Clearance Certificate with all relevant computations to accompany it.
- Representing clients in tax Audits and investigation exercise.
- Representing clients in tax Reconciliation Meetings.
- Trial balance analysis of interest expenses to compute withholding tax.
- Capturing of receipts and remittances from the client’s archive.
- Engaging in official correspondence with clients, the Board/ Service and their consultants.
Education
Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)
01.2015 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Ahmadu Bello University
01.2010 - 01.2015
Skills
- Financial Reporting (IFRS & UK GAAP)
- Audit Methodology (ISA and ISA UK)
- Financial statement reviews and quality checks
- Referred reporting audit engagements
- Risk assessment analytics and evaluation of internal controls
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Project management and coaching
- Exceptional communication and supervision
- Data analytics and research skills
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Audit Command Language (ACL)
- Halo for journals and other tools
Custom
Available on request
Timeline
Senior Audit Associate II
Pricewaterhousecoopers (PWC)
01.2022 - 06.2025
Audit Senior
Deloitte & Touché
01.2021 - 06.2025
Associate 1 -2, Audit
Deloitte & Touché
01.2019 - 12.2020
Team Lead Financial transaction
First Bank of Nigeria Limited
01.2018 - 12.2019
Qualified Tax Associate
Ijewere & co Chartered Accountants
01.2017 - 12.2018
Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)
01.2015 - 01.2018
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Ahmadu Bello University
01.2010 - 01.2015
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