Latifa Ahmed

- Managed financial transactions and record keeping. - Maintained employee data and time management for compliance. - Handled ad-hoc administrative tasks.

- Developed a legal entity tree to assist the dividend planning and to support the steering of the inter company dividend funds for optimal decision making by the team. - Contributed to legal entity integration project work including updating country legal entity target structures and related legal entity structure development steps. - Supported in updating the debt/equity dashboard with analysis capabilities along critical KPIs.

- Prepared monthly Inventory development report highlighting the changes in Inventory as compared to the operating plan and sales turnover. - Analyzed the value chain of the materials which resulted in evaluation and correction of supply steps between Legal entities of Merck Group. - Performed valuation of Merck's minority share in Azelis Deutschland Kosmetik GmbH. - Assisted in standard price calculations ascertaining the impact of next year’s expected price increase on Inventory.

- Executed post-audit data quality review in Internal Audit’s reporting application ‘Teammate Plus’. - Circulated monthly internal reports highlighting the progress of audit plan and resolution status of Audit findings. - Reviewing and timely distributing of audit dashboards to parent company Allianz. - Other tasks: Review of Audit Reports, preparing data analyses and presentations for quarterly audit committees, generating and analyzing system generated reports, updating of the internal audit plan matrix.

- Performed planning and execution of risk-based operational and compliance audits of operational and management units. - Evaluated adequacy of internal controls and operational integrity of the operational & management units. - Analyzed financial data, coordinated with statutory auditors and ensured compliance with IFRS and regulations. - Assessed bank data from banking software ‘MISYS’ on MS Excel and presented on PowerPoint. - Close liaison for recommendations and timely rectifications with Management.

- Reported findings of policies & procedures deviations in operational & management units. - Prepared Monthly Management letters for onward reporting to Audit Committee. - Tracked the resolution status of the audit observations and other assignments. - Audited branch operations of HBL’s units in Kenya (2009), Mauritius (2013) and Sri Lanka (2015) as a team member.