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Kwame is a Partner with KPMG Ghana’s Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Services unit. With over 20 years of experience, Kwame has a wealth of experience related to corporate governance, business process reviews, operational & financial audit and risk management gained from serving clients in both the private and publicsector. Kwame assists our clients to understand the risk that their businesses face and how these need to be controlled through the implementation of Governance, Risk Management, Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management frameworks.

Experience relevant to the engagement

Kwame has served as an engagement partner on a number of related projects including the following:

• Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Testing for Golden Star Resources Limited – Kwame provided overall leadership on this engagement. The objective of the engagement was to provide a loan staff to Golden Star Resources Limited to support the assessment and reporting of key internal controls around operational and financial reporting.

• Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting for a reputable financial institution – Kwame served as the engagement partner and guided the team to perform an adequate assessment of Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting looking at scope areas such as the treasury management cycle, fixed assets and expense management cycle, prepayment cycle, amongst others.

• Outsourced Internal Audit for miLife – As the engagement partner, Kwame used his extensive knowledge of business processes to guide the team in gaining an understanding of the processes, risks, and controls, as well as providing reasonable confidence in the effectiveness of internal controls governing the miLife’s business process.

• Outsourced Internal Audit Service for NIMED – In his role as the engagement partner, Kwame oversaw the general direction of the project and made sure that the deliverables met quality requirements.​ The objective of this engagement was to conduct an internal audit of NIMED in accordance with the SEC’s requirements in Section 15 of the Conduct of Business Guidelines 2020

• Internal Audit Co-sourcing for Voltic Ghana Limited (Coca-Cola) – Kwame served as the engagement partner. The focus of this engagement was to assist CCBA on an ongoing basis in evaluating and testing the design and operating effectiveness of its internal accounting and operational controls using the Coca-Cola company Central Audit Division(“CAD”) Internal Audit methodology, systems, and tools.

• Internal Audit Co-sourcing for GCB Bank – Kwame served as the engagement partner. This engagement involved a quality assurance review of GCB Bank’s Internal Audit (IA) function as well as detecting gaps in controls through process audits.

• Establishing an Internal Audit Function for Kasapreko Company Limited – Kwame served as the engagement partner. This engagement involved the performance of a risk assessment and execution of a technical audit for an agreed process as part of establishing the Internal Audit function.

• Internal Control and Governance Review for a reputable financial institution – Kwame served as an engagement manager for the review of the Internal Controls Framework of Universal Merchant Bank.

• G2G Risk Assessment on Ghana Health Service (GHS) for USAID – Kwame served as the engagement partner. The ultimate purpose of this engagement was to identify major financial and operational risks at GHS and to develop and implement risk mitigation methods in order to help secure and effectively manage USAID funds.

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