Abdullah Anees

Results-driven, analytical Senior Internal Auditor with over 6 years of progressive experience spearheading complex financial, operational, and compliance audits within high-stakes pharmaceutical and heavy manufacturing environments. Expert in constructing robust internal control frameworks aligned with COSO standards, successfully mitigating systemic corporate risk, and uncovering critical avenues for cost savings. Uniquely trusted to report directly to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), routinely translating complex analytical data into decisive C-suite strategic insights.

Highly proficient across robust enterprise architectures including Odoo ERP, SAP/SARP solutions, and Anaza Technology. Actively pursuing the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) designation to offer world-class, globally standardized risk governance to a forward-thinking conglomerate or entity in Qatar.

Senior Internal Auditor at Pulse Pharmaceuticals (2023-11 – Present)

• Executive Board Advisory: Maintain a direct reporting line to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO); compile meticulous corporate audit reports, executive summaries, and ad-hoc risk analyses to govern high-level corporate decision-making.
• End-to-End Audit Execution: Plan and execute continuous financial, operational, compliance, procurement, and asset management audits covering all core corporate and factory plant operations.
• Supply Chain Risk Management: Audit cross-border purchase orders and global logistics workflows to monitor imported material arrivals, systematically isolating and mitigating supply chain bottlenecks.
• Operational Efficiency Engineering: Quantify critical shop-floor manufacturing KPIs including asset output rates, resource utilization percentages, and strict material conversion yields against institutional targets.
• Regulatory & Quality Compliance: Review formal Quality Control (QC) records and audit factory floor sampling protocols to ensure absolute compliance with pharmaceutical regulatory authorities and internal corporate SOPs.
• Financial Control & Ledger Integrity: Conduct stringent audits across Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR), reviewing vendor contract disbursements, customer statement aging, credit ceilings, and collections efficiency.
• Landed Cost & Margin Protection: Execute granular reconstructions of imported landed costs (including ocean freight, custom duty structures, and localized tariffs) and perform variance evaluations against standard costing metrics.
• OPEX Control & Payroll Audit: Oversee operational expenditure (OPEX) run-rates and orchestrate comprehensive corporate payroll compliance audits, safeguarding systemic accuracy across complex allowance, taxation, and attendance variables.
• ERP Optimization: Leverage Odoo ERP system to pull operational data, track materials lifecycle from intake to delivery, and generate automated audit evidence trails.

Internal Auditor at UNICOL Limited (Sugar Division) (2023-05 – 2023-11)

• Evaluated manufacturing division workflows, leading cross-functional reviews of procurement systems, raw inventory controls, and vendor pre-qualification matrixes.
• Audited plant payroll ledgers, complex attendance clocking systems, and local corporate taxation liabilities while standardizing monthly bank reconciliation procedures.
• Identified critical industrial wastage points within stock processing controls and delivered structural cost-saving frameworks successfully adopted by senior plant management.

Internal Auditor at Popular Sugar Mills Limited (2020-09 – 2023-05)

• Directed routine statutory compliance audits over corporate accounting ledgers, physical asset frameworks, vault cash counts, and multi-tier operational payrolls.
• Executed complete cycle counts of physical inventory, matching physical floor quantities with ledger balances to proactively detect and resolve accounting discrepancies.
• Formulated and deployed rigorous financial risk oversight frameworks that measurably streamlined operational efficiency metrics by 15% across audited departments.

Accountant / Auditor at J.B Enterprises (2019-07 – 2020-07)

• Administered primary bookkeeping journals, managed general ledgers, orchestrated rigorous bank reconciliations, processed monthly internal payrolls, and facilitated the compilation of final financial reports.

Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) – The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), USA

Master of Commerce in Commerce – Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad (2021 – 2023)

Bachelor of Commerce in Commerce – Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad (2018 – 2020)

Bachelor of Pharmacy in Pharmacy