1. Amjad N. I. Abu Khamis, CPA, MA.
amjad.alabbasi@yahoo.com
+971-50- 2193590
1080 United Arab Emirates – Dubai
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GENERAL PERSONAL DATA
Date of Birth 02-April-1983
Place of Birth Jordan
Gender Male
Nationality Palestinian
Marital Status Married
Career Objectives:
To further expand my already well-established career in the auditing, assurance and
consultation sectors. I wish to utilize my auditing and management skills and experience to
achieve solid results for small, medium and large companies.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – SUMMARY
Total 10 years of experience in auditing and accounting profession, holding various roles and
responsibilities across different organizations and departments.
1. Assistant Manager – Internal Controls – August 2014 till Present, Dubai Islamic Bank
2. Sr. Internal Auditor – Operations and Financial–June 2008 till July 2014, Dubai Islamic Bank
3. Part-Time Lecturer – Auditing and Accounting Subjects
City University of Ajman – United Arab Emirates
Arab American University - Palestine
4. Accountant and Inventory Controller – June 2005 till June 2007
Jenin Company for Computers, Palestine
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
EDUCATION
Master Degree (Accounting) – 2007
The Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences, Amman, Jordan
Thesis:The use of smoothing income policy in the Jordanian listed firms in Amman stock
market.
Bachelor Degree in Accounting – 2005
An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
2. Amjad N. I. Abu Khamis, CPA, MA.
amjad.alabbasi@yahoo.com
+971-50- 2193590
1080 United Arab Emirates – Dubai
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COMPUTER SKILLS
Banking Applications
Professional user of banking application, i.e. Flex Cube, FinnOne, Team Mate, (audit
based application), Bwise (eGRC) etc.
Microsoft Office
High professional user for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook and other
Windows Applications
GENERAL SKILLS
StrongInterpersonal Skills;Initiativemakerandtaker;Innovative atwork;Ambitious. Inadditionto
otherqualitiessuchas:QualityBrainStorming;Thinkingwithothers;ThoughtsSharing;Objections
handling;Multi Tasking;andIntuitivelyManagingandretainingexcellentrelationshipswith
employees,superiors,peers,suppliers,orvendors.
LANGUAGES
Arabic(Native) &English(Fluent)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – DETAILED
Assistant Manager – Operational and Financial Internal Controller – Dubai Islamic Bank
From: August, 2014 Up to: Present
Key Achievements:
Participating in the development of internal control framework for the bank.
Developing and implementing a strategy to establish a value adding internal controls
department.
Participating in deploying eGRC (Enterprise: Governance, Risk and Compliance) Bwise
application.
Responsibilities
Supervise andrunregularreviewsoverthe designandeffectiveness of internal control system
at the bank.
Conducting Risk Assessments over the new and existing products and processes.
Identifying control gaps and opportunities for improvement.
Preparing timely internal control review reports for middle and executive management.
3. Amjad N. I. Abu Khamis, CPA, MA.
amjad.alabbasi@yahoo.com
+971-50- 2193590
1080 United Arab Emirates – Dubai
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Assess, evaluate, and promote liaison to policies and procedure manuals.
Providing advice on internal control and participates in enhancing internal control standards
and practices within the group.
Participatinginnewprojects,automationandsystemenhancements across the bank to ensure
proper control activities are considered and implemented.
Monitoringthe implementationof Internal controls and audit recommendations and report to
the board audit committee MIS on the program.
Senior Internal Auditor – Operations and Financial Audit– Dubai Islamic Bank
From: June 2008 Up to: July 2014
Responsibilities
Surveysfunctionsandactivitiesinassignedareastodetermine the nature of operationsandthe
adequacy of the system of control to achieve the objectives of the audit assignment.
Makes oral and writtenpresentationstomanagementduringandatthe conclusionof the audit,
discussing observations and recommending corrective action to improve operations.
Providing input for the revision of audit programs/review approach to achieve specific
objectives in more effective/efficient manner.
Participatesinthe review of userrelatedprocedures/policies for improvement to ensure they
provide for adequate and efficient internal controls.
Reportinternal control gaps identifiedandnegotiate actionplanswithmanagement to address
the problems.
FollowupandMonitor the statusof auditobservationsto assure the accurate implementation
of audit recommendations.
Appraises the adequacy of the corrective action taken to improve the conditions.
Assists in the implementation of the department Quality Assurance Program, with regard to
Operational andFinancial Audit,toensure thatthe department is functioning at a high level of
efficiency and effectiveness.
Otherspecial tasksas permanagementrequests,e.g.investigation, following up with external
auditor’s management letter observations across the bank, etc.
Keepsinformedaboutimprovementsand current developments in banking environment, and
in internal auditing & risk management standards, procedures, and techniques to assure
providing high level and up to date audit services to clients.
Accountant – Jenin Company for Computers, Jenin, Palestine
o Inventorycontrollerforthe companystoresandparticipatinginsalessection.