Timnat Thomas, ACMA (UK), CGMA, APFA, AML-CFT

Experience

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  Radio1

  Nov 2011 - Jan 2012

  Program Assistant
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  Viqar A. Khan & Co. Chartered Accountants

  Oct 2014 - Jun 2015

  Assistant Consultant
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  Crowe Hussain Chaudhury & Co.

  Jul 2015 - Feb 2019

  I was a project lead for multiple ongoing assignments in the audit department related to non-governmental organizations (NGOs), engineering, power, health, food and education sector, where most of the work involved dealing with external communications with clients and ensuring transparent financial reporting. Supported the team in charge and supervisor in making sufficient arrangements for the team to carry out their duties efficiently. Among other things, the major tasks were liaising with the team members for implementing actions, applying the relevant audit procedures and managing documents and evidence, communicating with the clients and promoting collective learning among the junior team members. Assisted with the maintenance of the details relating to external audit clients. Organized and systemized documents related to the clients including updating databases and preparing working papers for review.

  • Senior Audit Associate

    Jan 2018 - Feb 2019

  • Audit Associate

    Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

  • Audit Assistant

    Jul 2015 - Dec 2016
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  The Mad Hatters

  Feb 2019 - Nov 2019

  Senior Accountant

  I was responsible for maintaining and updating the financial records and accounts, preparing financial statements and managing the tax records for the startup.

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  Samad Apparel

  Aug 2019 - Oct 2020

  Senior Assistant Manager Finance & Accounts

  *Assisted the Manager Finance in managing cash flow and supervising the financial transactions*Prepared the financial analysis, KPI, and cost reports as required*Processed and reviewed invoices, recording of Journal entries/documents and supervised preparation of relevant records records*Reviewed, investigated and corrected errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents, and reports*Was responsible for the preparation and presentation of Profit Loss accounts, Balance sheet, cash flow statement, statement of change in equity & notes to the accounts*Proactively participated in the ongoing development/establishment of accounting policies & procedures and operational strategies, including reviewing and implementing process & system changes.*Managed the development of static reports and dynamic dashboards that provide complete, reliable, accurate, and timely business information.*Collaborated with other department managers to support overall department goals and objective Show less

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  The Pakistan Credit Rating Agency [PACRA]

  Dec 2020 - Dec 2021

  Senior Financial Analyst

  Major tasks included:*Managing the credit rating of debt instruments ( Sukuks, TFCs, Commercial Papers, Structured Finance, Basel III Compliant Debt Instruments, Preference Shares) of all the clients of PACRA including corporate and financial institutions*Managing the credit rating of sector paper and packing *Presenting the presentation to the senior credit rating committee for assessing the rating as per the rating criteria*Preparing the minutes of meetings of each committee presentation, proofreading and maintaining the final draft*Corresponding and engaging with external stakeholders regarding the data and rating reports*Assisting in the development of and operation of financial models for in-depth scenario testing*Responsible for developing and updating the MIS of the debt instruments for the analysis of the senior management Show less

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  Revolut

  Dec 2021 - Mar 2022

  FinCrime Specialist

  Major tasks during the short project included:*Providing KYC/CDD analysis of individual customers based on the potential crimes identified by different governments, banks or authorities in Europe, America and Australia*Undertaking research, documents checks, and financial crime risk assessment via internal and external sources*Performing screening on customers and members*Detecting and reporting suspicious activity including the predicate offences of money laundering and terrorist financing to the Financial Monitoring Unit (FMU)*Ensuring all documents submitted for CDD are in line with internal policies*Identifying and analysing alerts generated by the monitoring system in order to identify potentially suspicious activity*Escalating any red flags and potential risks to the escalation team Show less

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  Human Rights Commission of Pakistan

  Mar 2022 - Nov 2024

  Senior Manager Internal Audit

  Major tasks include:*Overall management of the Internal Audit Function including developing and implementing the internal audit processes*Dealing with the program review and audit and ensuring compliance with the contracts with the international donors*Preparing risk-based short and long-term audit plans*Ensuring digital communications, event organisation, logistics and other coordination is being carried out smoothly*Preparing reports on the agreed format for the donors in consultation with the senior management*Developing and implementing an internal audit value measurement system*Determining that the programme implementation and monitoring units are delivering the planned and agreed outputs as per the annual financial planning and budgeting and donor contracts*Communicating the results of audits of HRCP via written reports and or presentations to the management, treasurer and the finance and audit committee members Show less

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  Urgent Action Fund, Asia & Pacific

  Oct 2024 - now

  Financial Reporting Facilitator