Charmaine Ooi, FCCA

• Effectively managed and led multiple audit engagements, including strategic planning, budgeting, monitoring, staffing and coaching.
• Supervised and effectively planned audit activities across operational, personnel utilization and excessive billing areas.
• Developed strong professional client relations and is proactive in deepening those relationships.
• Demonstrated high audit quality initiatives with a focus on professional scepticism. Focused on complex, high risk and sensitive technical issues and collaborating with technical department or relevant specialist, as and when relevant.
• Evaluated employees' performance and assigned tasks based upon strength, experience and training. Developed, coached, mentored, and shared expertise with team members, providing stretch assignments to advance team members' capability.
• Understand and analyzed clients' business, industry, financial performance and accounting system to identify significant risks of fraud or error, potential audit focus area and business opportunities.
• Identified management control deficiencies and provided value added suggestions for remediation.
• Interviewed management, explained audit scope and plan and conducted exit interviews of audit findings.

• Had the opportunity to be part of KPMG Audit's biggest transformation - KPMG Clara workflow, a global initiative and a key focus area in KPMG Global Audit Quality Transformation program aim to refresh KPMG audit methodology and workflow as well as completely re-imagined way of performing our audits.
• Being on a 24-months secondment from October 2021 to September 2023 to KPMG Clara workflow Central Team - Deployment Team which roles include facilitating learning and workshops, developing guidance, project managing elements of the deployment and supporting engagement teams throughout KPMG offices across Australia, Fiji and PNG.
• This secondment allows for audit client engagement portfolio to be maintained with the remainder of the time spend working in the Central Team to support the deployment of KPMG Clara workflow.

Refer to job description in Senior Audit Manager role which is also relevant for Audit Manager - client engagement.

• Performed analytical procedures and analyses on companies' overall financial performances, in order to understand client's business in identifying potential audit focus area and business opportunity.
• Tested client's internal control over financial reporting for effectiveness and providing findings on identified deficiencies or areas for improvement in client's business processes.
• Reviewed client's financial statements and ensured it was prepared in accordance with statutory requirements.
• Effectively planned and executed audit procedures, ability to analyze financial statement or audit related issues and determine appropriate solutions in a prompt manner.
• Effectively managed clients' expectation and maintaining a good working relationship throughout different phases of audit engagements.
• Effectively manage the role as an overall auditor in-charge of engagement teams by providing clear instructions and appropriate guidance to team members as well as maintaining a good working relationship with team members to ensure audit assignments and project deliverable are achieved on a timely manner and with sustainable quality.
• Collaborated with accounting manager to comply with governing bodies and limit regulatory risks.
• Participated in billing and collections operations to facilitate client payment of overdue invoices.
• Collected and reported monthly expense variances and explanations.