Mr. Karim is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB). He is a professional member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) qualified as a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He is a partner of this firm since 2008. He is also a licensed VAT consultant of NBR. He did both his graduation and post-graduation in Finance from University of Dhaka (DU). As a professional accountant, he has wide experiences in conducting statutory audit, internal audit, special audit, business consultancy, taxation and financial review works in country and abroad. His regular professional activities include:
- Assurance Services: Statutory auditing, Internal auditing , Special Audit, Procurement Audit, Financial review and Integrated fiduciary review to Public Sector Corporations/ companies/ utilities, Banks, NGOs, Donors and Regulatory authorities.
- Management Consultancy: Valuation work, Development and designing of SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), Due diligence review, Company formation, Back office supports services in the form of BPO (Business Process Outsourcing). Organizational Systems Review to Assess the capacity of NGO partners, Strategy document preparation for cost sharing/ cost recovery etc.
- Capacity assessment/review: Organization capacity review on behalf of different donors like world Bank, CORDAID, SDC, UNDP, Oxfam etc.
- Taxation Advisory: Both Income Tax and VAT.
- Information system: Design & implementation of ERP system and it's different modules like job management, payroll, accounting, inventories, PF, GF etc., information system audit, advise on information system procurement.
His notable special experiences are following:
- Worked as Head of Internal Audit of MGH Group, one of the largest business houses in Bangladesh having overseas offices in different countries, where he conducted internal audit in all companies under the group including overseas offices and reported to the top management, suggested appropriate policies to the management, designed and established internal control system within the group, and developed necessary standard policies for different departments.
- He worked in two leading professional accounting firms in Bangladesh for over a period of 20 years and has gathered wide experience in conducting statutory audit of some local, international, multinational companies and donor agencies and all related activities for the audit.
- Performed various training programs for the corporate and NGOs on internal audit, financial reporting, accounting, Inventory Management, Budgetary control etc. He has done many audit and consultancy assignments in the development sector. He acted as facilitator in the ‘Financial Management Capacity Development Training’ to the Lead and Associate NGOs implementing GFATM funded project managed by Save the Children USA” and in the “‘Training on Financial Management to the Partner NGOs of Cordaid in Bangladesh” very recently.
- He worked as a consultant with the Office of Internal Audit (OIA) team of UNICEF New York Headquarter under a Special Service Agreement (SSA) and worked as a consultant of Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) for review of procurement functions of a project of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) funded by JBIC in association to Ashhi Ltd. (Japan).
- He has successfully conducted different professional assignments in Hong Kong, Oman, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka.