Narayanan Subbaraman

I bring about 20 years of diverse experience in Internal Audit, Information Systems Audit, Finance and Accounting • Established a separate Internal Audit Department in Al Mirfa Power Company and developed Audit Governance Charter, Internal Audit Charter and Internal Audit Manuals. • Performed risk assessment and developed risk register. • Developed annual internal audit plan based on risk assessment and presented to the Internal Audit Director. • Executed Internal Audits including Information Systems Audits in accordance with annual audit plan to ensure effective risk management practices are in place and are in compliance to regulations and policies. As part of internal audit ensured sufficient and appropriate allocation of resources and developed internal audit programs based on risk assessments. • Actively managed, reviewed and supervised internal audit activities to ensure they were completed on time and achieved its objectives. Such audits covered a wide range of critical processes over customer services (new electricity and water connections, metering, billing, accounts receivable management, customer care services), asset management (electricity and water assets), maintenance and operations of electricity & water generation, transmission and distribution process, development, acquisition and implementation of projects, HR, finance and accounting, project management activities and processes, inventory management, cash and receivable management. • Communicated the results of audit engagement by drafting internal audit reports / follow up reports with engagement objectives and scope as well as audit observations, applicable conclusions, recommendations, and coordinated with process owners in respect of formulating action plans. • Drafted quarterly Internal Audit progress reports on auditable areas assigned detailing actual progress with planned activities and briefed the Internal Audit Director on the progress of internal audit assignments. • Actively performed, managed, reviewed and supervised Information Systems Audits covering critical IT processes over IT Governance, Identity and Access Management, Data Base Applications, Business Application Software (Maximo, Oracle FS, Customer Care and Billing), IT Systems Development and Acquisition, Physical and logical controls, Application Systems Change and Patch Management, Server Management, Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery and Backup functions. Sectors: Energy, Power and Utility, Electricity and Water sectors