Khurram Abbas

Detail-oriented and self-driven Certified Accountant (ICAP) with over 20 years of hands-on experience in quantitative/statistical analysis, budgeting, accounting, and forecasting. Worked to develop and implement strategies to increase revenue from 125K$ in 2005 to 1.5M $ by June 2016. Was awarded the Outstanding Performance and High Achiever Award by Grant Thornton in 2007 and 2012.

• Procurement Post Reviews, World Bank Pakistan, 07/01/10
• Supervisor Health and Safety Awareness, Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development, 12/01/22
• Industrial Safety Trainers, Health, and Safety Representative Basic Training, 09/01/20
• Industrial Safety Trainers, Workplace Inspections, 09/01/20
• Investigative interview Skills Level-1, Wicklander & Zulawski USA, 08/01/23
• Fall Protection Equipment Inspection and working at heights, Triple M, 08/01/23

Public expenditure tracking survey for Public Sector Universities of Pakistan by World Bank, https://hec.gov.pk/english/universities/projects/TESP/Documents/Report%20on%20Public%20Expenditure%20Tracking%20Survery%20of%20Higher%20Education%20in%20Pak.pdf

• European Union Community Development Program, Lead Monitoring & Evaluation Expert/ Project Coordinator, 04/01/18, 12/31/19, Conducted on-site monitoring visits and off-site desk reviews for 1500 small community-based organizations for their governance, record-keeping and financial management effectiveness. Audit of funds, budget utilization reporting & surrender of un-utilized budgets as per EU framework agreement with Government of Pakistan-Economic Affairs Division and Provincial Government.
• Assessment Framework for Public Financial Management System, Procurement Expert, 06/01/12, 09/30/12, Development of an Assessment Framework of Public Sector Procurement function under the realm of Effective Public Financial Management Systems of which Procurement is one of the key elements.
• World Bank and Higher Education Commission (HEC), Team Leader and Project Coordinator, 06/01/15, 06/30/16, Due diligence review of 15 public sector university systems to determine the adequacy of fund flow, financial reporting capabilities, cost per student calculation, and governance overview. Application of balance scorecard model, pre-approved checklists, case studies, system walkthroughs, development of data flow diagrams (DFDs) enabling, comparative analysis, to substantiate suggested reforms presented to World Bank and Higher Education Commission (HEC).
• Due Diligence Reviews of Public and Private Sector Entities for USAID, Financial Review, 01/01/09, 12/31/10, Financial Review, focusing on diagnostics and key risk identification in the most common departments of an organization i.e., Procurement, Finance, HR, Internal Audit, IT and governance. Assessment of control environment and controls testing including walkthroughs, and case studies applied on key functional areas within each of the departments reviewed. Developed risk mitigation matrix for effective compliance by the target entities with identification of responsible stakeholders and priority of response.
• Procurement audits/frameworks, Capacity Building for World Bank, Sub-national level assessment, 01/01/10, 12/31/15, Sub-national level assessment of procurement in Education and Health Sector for Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-World Bank. Conducted procurement audit FY 2010 (200 projects) and FY 2013 (300 projects) for World Bank (WB) Funded projects with classification into (Low, Medium and High Risk). Training of Trainers program (TOT) of 200 implementing partners of World Bank on World Bank Procurement Guidelines with key emphasis on assessment indicators of Fraud & Corruption and support to be extended to external auditors and reviewers.