Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Abdullah carries over 25 years of experience of working with KPMG in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan & Oman. Prior to KPMG, he worked for 5 years in Arthur Andersen in their offices in United Arab Emirates and Pakistan. He is responsible to lead in the Middle East, the Board Leadership Centre, develop & raise profile of KPMG in the family businesses & provide wide range of audit and advisory services (including due diligence, IPO readiness, governance, risk-based strategies & transformation, compliance, continuous auditing & monitoring, & people & change advisory). Abdullah is a subject matter expert for clients in financial services, energy & natural resources, infrastructure & transport, & consumer & industrial markets sectors. In his role as a senior engagement and relationship lead, Abdullah advises & supports boards of directors / audit committees & C-level executives of large listed entities on group structures, purpose & strategy, governance & oversight, risk management, transformation, performance improvement opportunities arising from acquisitions & post-acquisition impacts, complex accounting, auditing & regulatory matters. As a leader & accredited family business advisor, Abdullah also works with large family owned conglomerates advising the owners / board of directors to facilitate processes that allows them to co-create effective plans in respect of IPO, succession planning, organization design, governance structures, authority matrices, setting up & defining roles & responsibilities of various board level committees. He has also been regularly consulted on challenges relating to talent management, internal audit, risk management & compliance functions. Abdullah has lead number of due diligence and valuation engagements in relation to Sukuks, EMTNs, private equity placements, IPO & privatization transactions in financial services, energy & aviation sectors. In addition, Abdullah has been a Lead Reviewer for over 15 years in KPMG’s Quality Performance Reviews in Europe & Asia. For the last 10 years, he has also been a Lead Assessor in KPMG’s Leadership Development Centre for Directors in Europe & Asia. He has worked with the KPMG’s CEO and Executive Committee for 2 years, helping among other things, strategic business & operating plans, review of budgets & actual performance, internal quality, employer of choice & client satisfaction initiatives. As a leader in KPMG, Abdullah spends significant time in coaching & developing Saudi emerging talent to enhance their knowledge & capability & create a pipeline of emerging leaders for the Firm.