Muhammad's CV
Muhammad Anas Kaleemullah
Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
Profile summary
Strategic Certified Internal Auditor with 8+ years shaping internal audit, risk management, and regulatory compliance outcomes across the UAE and international markets. Known for building internal audit functions end-to-end, conducting complex fraud investigations, and designing robust governance frameworks aligned with IIA standards. Committed to delivering rigorous assurance and strengthening internal controls to protect organizational value.
Career highlights
Internal Audit Function Building: Built the internal audit function end-to-end and supervised a three-person compliance and documentation team supporting monitoring programmes.
Fraud and Misconduct Investigations: Led fraud and misconduct investigations to sustained findings with executive-endorsed remediation including cash-sale suppression and inventory use.
Regulatory Compliance and Frameworks: Authored company-wide whistle-blowing frameworks and compliance policies adopted across organizations during internal audit engagements.
Tax and Regulatory Compliance Execution: Executed FATCA and OECD Common Reporting Standard compliance for a major UAE bank based in Abu Dhabi.
Key skills
Professional experience
Reports directly to the Owner and Managing Director while guiding a three-person compliance team across multiple food and beverage outlets. Directs the internal audit function end-to-end, covering governance, risk management, and operational controls across central production, roastery, and retail locations.
- Architected the internal audit function from inception, establishing the charter, methodology, risk-based annual plan, investigation protocol, and reporting standards.
- Executed audit engagements across six cycles including accounts payable, procurement, inventory, roastery, central production, and outlet operations.
- Authored 50+ controlled governance documents and designed a remote outlet compliance monitoring programme featuring a 27-sub-category standards register under documented independence safeguards.
- Deployed AI-enabled audit tooling, risk-assessment agents, and an audit command centre integrated with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to support automated assurance-briefing pipelines.
Directed internal audit and advisory operations for group entities spanning the UAE, China, India, and additional international locations, delivering risk assessments to executive leadership and board members.
- Executed 14 audit engagements across 12 group entities in commodity trading, shipping, and corporate functions, issuing reports directly to the board and management.
- Audited payment execution, bank reconciliation across five business units, inter-business unit accounting, and cargo release to surface delegated authority breaches.
- Built the corporate fixed asset register to item level with general ledger tie-out and physical tagging across UAE and overseas offices.
Directed risk assessments and process reviews spanning Forrun Logistics, the e-commerce pharmacy, and group functions. Analyzed petty cash reports across country hubs to brief directors on operational findings.
- Achieved 99% compliance with network-wide weighing-machine standards at Forrun through targeted process reviews.
- Supported ISACA CMMI V2.0 Maturity Level 2 and ISO 18295-1:2017 compliance by enhancing the Supplier Agreement Management policy.
- Received a Certificate of Achievement for contributions toward clearing the CMMI implementation audit.
Directed risk-based internal audit walkthroughs and control testing while collaborating directly with the Chief Audit Executive on specialized investigations. Established core corporate governance frameworks, including whistle-blowing policies and conflict of interest codes adopted across the entire organization. Prepared documentation for board presentations and director-level disciplinary proceedings.
- Executed control testing and walkthroughs under annual risk-based audit plans, identifying procedural gaps for remediation.
- Conducted a fraud investigation under the guidance of the Chief Audit Executive and recommended monitoring controls to deter recurrence.
- Authored the whistle-blowing framework, Incident Reporting Framework, and the Conflict of Interest and Code of Conduct policies.
- Supervised deployment of an in-house inventory management system and optimized financial close, including general-ledger reconciliations.
- Executed internal audit engagements for a media and IT company following a transition requested during active fieldwork.
- Completed outsourced internal audit procedures for a greige fabric manufacturer after concluding petroleum transportation sector reviews.
- Executed FATCA and OECD Common Reporting Standard frameworks for a major UAE banking institution during the Abu Dhabi engagement.
- Delivered 14+ audit engagements across 12+ group entities in commodity trading, shipping, and corporate functions.
- Executed group-wide process audits over payment execution, bank reconciliation, inter-BU accounting, and cargo release.
- Performed walkthroughs and control testing under annual risk-based audit plans; led a fraud investigation under the guidance of the Chief Audit Executive and recommended enhanced monitoring to deter recurrence.
- Authored the whistle-blowing framework and policy and the Conflict of Interest and Code of Conduct policies, adopted company-wide; prepared documents for director-level disciplinary hearings and board presentations as assigned. Chiniot General Hospital Karachi, Pakistan
- Executed FATCA and OECD Common Reporting Standard compliance frameworks for a major bank in Abu Dhabi.
- Managed accounts receivable operations for a multinational consumer health company and an FMCG group in Karachi.
Education
- MoHESR Recognised
Certifications
Languages
English · Professional
Urdu · Native