Md. Afnan Bin Abdullah, ACA

Experience

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  ABC Radio FM 89.2

  May 2010 - Jun 2010

  Radio Trainee (Out Door Broadcaster)

  Key Responsibilities:• News reporting and presentation• Making field visit to collect data• Processing raw data• Forming voice report on Weather, Share Market Update, Retail Market Price of Consumer Products and other current national and international isues,• Planning and drafting various radio program and anchoring there as Radio Jockey (RJ)

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  Delloite

  Jun 2010 - Jun 2013

  Article Student

  • Conduct statutory audit in accordance with Bangladesh Standards on Auditing, Bangladesh Financial Reporting Standards, Applicable Corporate and Taxation Laws and Audit Practice Manual of ICAB;• Testing key Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) of GP as per group (Telenor) guidelines as a Management Consultant• Perform and lead various internal audit clients as per Terms of References and Standard Operating Procedures• Draft audit report, management letter and other report to assist engagement partner. Show less

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  Coca-Cola Egypt

  Jul 2010 - Nov 2010

  Incharge, Business Process Outsourcing Service (BPO)

  Keeping records of day to day transactions through Tally.ERP9, maintaining all ledger, petty cash, checking voucher and ensure compliance of all internal and external regulations.

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  Terre des hommes foundation

  Jul 2010 - Jun 2011

  Incharge, Statutory Audit of 'Mother and Child Health/ Nutrition' Project.

  Key Responsibilities: Conducted audit on Financial Statements of “Mother and Child Health/ Nutrition Project”, Project of Terre des hommes foundation in accordance with BSA and Audit Practice Manual of ICAB; Checked the compliance of Financial Statements with applicable BFRSs, Rules of NGO Affairs Bureau (NGOAB) and other local regulations . Check budget variances. Make all reports to submit NGOAB. Assisted engagement partner in drafting audit report and management letter. Show less

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  Grameenphone Ltd

  Dec 2010 - Feb 2011

  Management Consultant

   Testing key Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) of GP as per group (Telenor) guidelines to ensure that ICFRs are operating effectively as designed throughout the whole year.  Major Classes of Transactions (MCT) over which ICFRs of GP had been tested were: Revenue & Receivable, Purchase & Payable, Fixed Assets, Payroll and Pensions, Financial Close, Treasury Management and Taxation; Prepare guidelines of standard documentation process if it fails at the time of designing the internal control system; Prepare remediation action plan if control is rejected due to operational ineffectiveness and performance failure of control; After testing of internal controls, reporting through Internal Control Administration Systems (ICAS) maintained by Telenor, about the result of testing and make recommendations (if any) to the local Management for stringent of overall control environment. Show less

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  Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd.

  Dec 2011 - Mar 2013

  Audit In Charge, Statutory Audit

  Key Responsibilities:• Conducted audit on both individual and consolidated Financial Statements of Lafarge in accordance with BSA and Audit Practice Manual of ICAB;• Assist engagement partner in drafting audit report and management letter.

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  Save the Children International

  Nov 2012 - Apr 2013

  Audit In Charge, Statutory Audit of “Household Economic and Food Security of Extreme Poor (HES)”

  Key Responsibilities:• Conducted audit on Financial Statements of “Household Economic and Food Security of Extreme Poor (HES)”, Project of Save the Children funded by Shiree in accordance with BSA and Audit Practice Manual of ICAB; Checked the compliance of Financial Statements with applicable BFRSs, Rules of NGO Affairs Bureau and other local regulations . Assisted engagement partner in drafting audit report and management letter.

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  Mobil Jamuna Lubricants Bangladesh Limited (MJL BL)

  Feb 2013 - Feb 2013

  Audit In Charge, Corporate Governance Compliance Audit

  Conducted audit on status of compliance, as to corporate governance, with the conditions imposed by the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission’s (BSEC) Notification No. SEC/CMRRCD/2006-158/134/Admin/44 dated 07 August 2012 issued under section 2CC of the Securities and ExchangeOrdinance, 1969

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  United Finance Limited

  Jul 2013 - Apr 2016

  Principal Officer- Internal Audit

  Key Responsibilities:• Detect and investigate suspected fraudulent activities, including misappropriation of funds, embezzlement, bribery, and corruption.• Conduct forensic examinations of financial records, transactions, and documentation to identify irregularities or discrepancies.• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and best practices by investigating potential violations or breaches.• Assist in responding to regulatory inquiries, audits, or examinations by providing relevant documentation and evidence.• Assess the effectiveness of internal controls in preventing and detecting fraud, misconduct, or non-compliance.• Investigate allegations of employee misconduct, ethical breaches, conflicts of interest, or violations of organizational policies and procedures.• Make recommendations for corrective actions, control enhancements, or process improvements to mitigate the risk of recurrence. Show less

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  LankaBangla Finance Limited

  Apr 2016 - Feb 2022

  • Lead Business Finance Department to form annual budget with monthly breakup in division and department level identifying cost and revenue center. Measure monthly performance at division, department and branch level; analyze variance with budget breaking up in unit and rate variance along with analyzing the cause to explain to board in monthly Business Review Meeting (BRM).• Prepared separate and consolidated financial statements, faced internal and external audit, made the statements approved by the Board. Show less • Lead Business Finance Department to form annual budget with monthly breakup in division and department level identifying cost and revenue center. Measure monthly performance at division, department and branch level; analyze variance with budget breaking up in unit and rate variance along with analyzing the cause to explain to board in monthly Business Review Meeting (BRM).• Prepared separate and consolidated financial statements, faced internal and external audit, made the statements approved by the Board.• Assist to establish and implementation process of IFS ERP system.• Form a model of charging transfer price for fund mobilization among different division and branches to appraise unit performance rationally.• Established a complete system of non-current asset management for the company by forming Ms. Excel based non-current asset register with depreciation calculator. That can provide comprehensive and pivoted reports as to allocated and carrying value, expired and residual life of assets in individual with unique code and in accumulated basis. Coordinate to align that register with the non-current asset module of forthcoming ERP (IFS) of the company.• Privileged to be in a team to Received ‘SAFA Best Presented Annual Report Awards”, “ICAB National Award for Best Presented Annual Reports” more than once.• Contribute to the Finance team to win “MD’s Genius Award” and “Chairman Genius Award” in 2016, 2017 and 2018 respectively. Show less

  • Head of Business Finance Department & Manager

    Jan 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Assistant Manager Finance

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2020

  • Principal Officer- Finance and Accounts

    Apr 2016 - Jan 2018
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  BRAC

  Mar 2022 - Jan 2023

  Assistant General Manager

  • Worked as the focal person to form Annual Internal Audit Plan (AIAP) considering relevant risk factors, resources allocation, spots and process coverage for Risk Based and Process, Surprise, Inventory audit and advocacy services as to Micro Finance, Enterprise (Arong, Nursery, Dairy, Fisheries etc), Development and Support (HR, Procurement, Accounts, Maintenance, etc) to be presented before the Board and got approval accordingly,• Worked as focal person to prepare the final paper to be presented in Finance, Audit and Risk Committee (FARC) Meeting,• Oversight the executive reporting of internal audit department to Executive Director, Managing Director, Senior Directors of different Programs, Enterprises and Departments (PEDs) of BRAC,• Oversight the execution of finance and accounts, procurement, investment and enterprise audit as per plan,• Working as focal person for long term HR planning of more than 250 staffs for the department along with forming departmental budget,• Promote, support and guide to establish safeguarding culture within the team: Ensure and uphold safeguarding and gender equity and its compliance within the Organization. Show less

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  ASA International

  Jan 2023 - now

  Assistant Director

  • Overseeing, reporting, and providing guidance on critical control deficiencies in financial reporting and adherence to IFRS across the 12 entities and at the Group level. Reviewed the development and deployment of software aimed at streamlining financial reporting consolidation.• Reviewing and advising on the budgetary process, entity-wise KPI setting process, and variance analysis with rationalization.• Collaborated with the Head of Internal Audit in preparing reports for board meetings, specifically for Audit Review Committee Meetings.• Utilized data analytics tools of Microsoft (power query) to create a robust internal audit dashboard for monitoring and reporting the progress of internal audit activities along with analyzing progress in the control environment of the organization. Show less