Rokon is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB). He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Certified Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), UK. A partner of this firm since 2008, Rokon is a postgraduate in Accounting.
As public accountant Rokon has been active in audit and advisory services across a sizable number of local and multinational clients. He too provides taxation services to a good number of selective clients. His regular professional activities include:
- Audit and Assurance: Statutory auditing, Internal auditing, Financial review and various agreed upon reviews
- Business Advisory: Due diligence review, Valuation work, Company formation, Back office supports services in the form of BPO (Business Process Outsourcing), System designing and deployment, Development and designing of SoPs (Standard Operating Procedures).
- Taxation Advisory: Both Income Tax and VAT.
Apart from regular working experiences as audit and accounting professional, a brief of his special experiences may be found in the following short notes:
- Engaged as member to the Technical and Research Committee of ICAB for over two decades dealing with adoption, interpretation and implementation of IFRS, ISA and IESBA Codes of Ethics.
- Worked for global multinational companies including GSK, Procter and Gamble etc. holding prestigious positions ranging from Internal Audit Manager to the Chief Financial Officer.
- Dealt with implementation of major ERP in the leading corporates as Project Manager and Steering Committee Chair.
- Performed various training programs for the corporate executives and accountants on IFRS, Inventory Management, Budgetary control etc. Also offered training programs on Finance for Non-Finance executives in various corporates.
- Engaged as a regular trainer in the Certificate Course on IFRS organised by the ICAB.
- Published various articles on professional matters in The Bangladesh Accountant and Local Dailies.
- Attended live TV programs on various channels as speaker on matters important to the current trade and commerce.
- Extensively traveled on various activities across the continents.