Rebecca Borges
Consultant
- rborges@ardentadvisory.com
- Abu Dhabi
Profile
Rebecca Borges is a qualified Chartered Accountant with 5 years of professional experience specializing in providing Risk Advisory services including Enterprise Risk Management, Internal Audit, Policies & Procedures.
Prior to joining Ardent, Rebecca worked with a leading infrastructure company in India as an Internal Auditor through which she gained valuable skills and knowledge in the field of Audit and Risk Management.
Experience
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Risk Based Internal Audit:
- Rebecca has worked with clients in India and conducted internal audits of 2 leading International Airports, Cargo business and the hospitality industry. She has handled various assignments which include Internal Financial Controls Review, review of related party transactions, various process audits such as Procure to Pay (including Pre-Audits for Procurements), record to report review, taxation audit and Financial Statements Closure process.
- For the Internal Audit engagements, Rebecca has developed customized audit plans, audit programs and risk control matrices based on client businesses and engagement requirements. As part of audit execution, she has carried out risk analysis, gap analysis and remediation planning for identified gaps and deficiencies. She has also provided critical value adding recommendations that have improved the clients’ processes and controls.
- She has developed and evaluated design and operating effectiveness of internal controls at process and entity level. She has identified and reported various deficiencies in the internal control’s framework, non-adherence to the SOP, control deficiencies, and has provided mitigating recommendations for achievement of organization control objectives.
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External Audits:
- Rebecca has handled various statutory audit assignments across a spectrum of industries including Manufacturing, Advertising, Retail and Consumer, Pharmaceutical etc. with included analysis of Draft Financial Statements including notes to accounts in accordance with IFRS. She has conducted the recurring bank audit of a leading Nationalized bank in India which included Verification of adherence to asset classification norms by Reserve Bank of India, Ensuring compliances with proper documentation of loan sanctioning documents, Verification of the closing cash at bank & Preparation of Long Form Audit Report (LFAR)