AMAL SAAB, B.SC., CPA
Amal Saab is a Senior Auditor of UTC International (“UTCINTL”). Amal has many years of versatile international experience in the best practices of top ranking global corporates and financial institutions. She is widely recognized for her technical expertise in international accounting standards, quality of the audit process, and professional ethics, among others. Throughout her professional career, Amal has conducted statutory compliance audits and quality audit services of banks, financial services institutions, insurance companies, contractors for mega projects, large hospitals, five-star hotels, manufacturers, retail chains, and not for profit organizations.
Amal currently controls a large portfolio of UTCINTL audits [statutory and internal] of companies and business entities. She manages a team of highly skilled professional staff who attend to the day-to-day operation of the audit process. She has developed strong relationships with clients across a range of industries
Amal’s work experience covered the following principal activities:
• Providing comprehensive and practical programs for statutory audits;
• Determining areas of audit risk and appraise their significance in relation to operational factors of cost, time schedules, and service product quality;
• Providing formal plans for recruiting, selecting, training, evaluating, and supervising of audit staff;
• Classifying audit projects on basis of degree of risk and significance and as to frequency of internal audit coverage;
• Reviewing work papers and editing audit reports with the respective audit staff for the assigned audit engagement[s], discussing the outstanding points with appropriate divisional management before finalization of audit report[s];
• Presenting oral briefings to Clients’ management;
• Supervising outsourced internal auditing work which includes performing review of internal audit methodology and plans, regulatory procedures compliance reviews, financial operations audit, and accounts management.
• Reviewing the client entity’s functional activities and evaluating the effectiveness of the internal control procedures;
• Conducting fraud investigation assignments as per generally accepted standards of auditing;
• Supervising the implementation and commissioning for beneficial use of computerized management information systems.