James is a Chartered Accountant and a Partner in Deloitte’s Middle East Assurance team. He leads Deloitte’s Controls Assurance team in the Middle East, helping businesses enhance the value, accuracy, timeliness, and reliability of financial reporting.
He specializes in internal financial controls and leads a range of services to our clients including Controls Implementations, Internal Control over Financial Reporting attest services, and financial reporting process improvement projects. James also leads ESG Assurance services across the Middle East, including Assurance Readiness, Limited Assurance over ESG KPIs and use of proceeds from Green Bonds.
His expertise includes the COSO Framework, ICFR and ISAE 3000 reporting, finance policies and procedures, Sarbanes Oxley, financial reporting under IFRS and US GAAP, control self-assessment, finance function development and training and development of finance teams.
James previously worked for over ten years in Deloitte’s UK practice, within the Audit & Assurance, Transaction Services and Finance Transformation teams. He has been accredited under Deloitte’s framework to lead internal control services for SEC registered companies for 12 years
