Dia Sahebdee, FCCA

Leadership & Ownership: Lead a high-performing team responsible for financial operations, reporting, and compliance across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring alignment with business strategy and regulatory standards. Process Enhancement: Identify operational gaps and implement scalable processes and systems to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate closely with executives, shareholders, and regulators to provide actionable financial insights and maintain trust. Technical Mastery: Manage complex financial reporting, multi-jurisdictional compliance, and the implementation of solutions tailored to evolving industry needs. Strategic Oversight: Anticipate and adapt to market, regulatory, and shareholder demands, delivering innovative financial solutions and ensuring business agility during periods of uncertainty.

- Preparation of the study of the general environment of the companies being audited, creation of the engagement under an in-house built application, study of fraud and controls present within the organisation, identification of the risks early in the audit process. - Involved in discussion with senior management on areas requiring improvement in the client’s internal control system and reviews the Management Letter highlighting on the weaknesses identified and improvements to be made. - Reviewing annual financial statements to identify risks and ensuring compliance with appropriate accounting framework. Reviewed a number of new UK GAAP conversions for UK asset managers which moved to FRS 102 or IFRS. Experience in US GAAP, IFRS and UK GAAP accounts. - Experience in the valuation of complicated instruments including CLOs, Swaps, options and unquoted private equities and hedging instruments. - Reviewed financial models for private equity clients and assisting our valuation team with their assessment with the significant assumptions used in the models. - Providing technical accounting support on complex transactions, challenging senior management interpretation and working with them to reach a conclusion mainly on the application of new IFRS standards that affect the financial services practice. - Experience in SOC reports including type 1 and type 2 reports, understanding the client environment, designing and executing control tests. - Experience in reviewing the reasonableness of AML procedures - Project management; overseeing and managing multi national teams ensuring all deadlines are met with high quality work, maintaining complex reporting to senior stakeholders, prepare budgets and ensure constant monitoring. - Coaching and training team members for their own development and also ensuring that exceptional service are delivered. - Involved in training to audit assistants to introduce and help them gain an understanding about the audit methodology.

Functional task •Interpretation of the SOC reports under ISAE 3402 and Controls Report to leverage the audit work, anticipation and identification of the risks and recommendations to the client for the areas requiring improvements; •Preparation of the study of the general environment of the companies being audited, creation of the engagement under an in-house built application, study of fraud and controls present within the organisation, identification of the risks early in the audit process; •Coaching and supervision of the teams; •Responsible for developing the overall audit approach including qualitative and quantitative analysis and evaluation of industry and business risks and reviewing the audit working paper file. •Reviews financial statements and footnote disclosures in conformity with International Financial Reporting Standards (IAS/ IFRS). •Part of quality team within EY and helping colleagues to improve quality both in terms of IFRS and audit methodology. Client  Heads discussion with senior management on areas requiring improvement in the client’s internal control system and reviews the Management Letter highlighting on the weaknesses identified and improvements to be made  Participates in client meetings and cascades information down to the engagement team in one-on-one and small group discussions Operational responsibilities  Prepares budgets and monitors work in progress to ensure budget compliance on audit assignments  Coordinates audit team booking and activities to meet objectives within time constraints People responsibilities  Provides on-the-job training, coaching notes and constructive feedback to audit staff helping them to achieve their full potential  Fosters team spirit through regular formal and informal meetings and team discussion  Counsels audit staff on performance reviews towards meeting Learning and Development objectives

Duties in Mauritius: Client responsibilities Functional task •Interpretation of the SOC reports under ISAE 3402 and Controls Report to leverage the audit work, anticipation and identification of the risks and recommendations to the client for the areas requiring improvements; •Preparation of the study of the general environment of the companies being audited, creation of the engagement under an in-house built application, study of fraud and controls present within the organisation, identification of the risks early in the audit process; •Coaching and supervision of the teams; •Responsible for developing the overall audit approach including qualitative and quantitative analysis and evaluation of industry and business risks and reviewing the audit working paper file. •Reviews financial statements and footnote disclosures in conformity with International Financial Reporting Standards (IAS/ IFRS). •Liaises with technical team (EY South Africa) for financial statements pre-issuance reviews and other IFRS/ISA related consultations Client  Heads discussion with senior management on areas requiring improvement in the client’s internal control system and reviews the Management Letter highlighting on the weaknesses identified and improvements to be made  Participates in client meetings and cascades information down to the engagement team in one-on-one and small group discussions Operational responsibilities  Prepares budgets and monitors work in progress to ensure budget compliance on audit assignments  Coordinates audit team booking and activities to meet objectives within time constraints People responsibilities  Provides on-the-job training, coaching notes and constructive feedback to audit staff helping them to achieve their full potential  Fosters team spirit through regular formal and informal meetings and team discussion  Counsels audit staff on performance reviews towards meeting Learning and Development objectives