Muhammad Arif Saeed

Mr. Muhammad Arif Saeed is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP), Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) from The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) from the IIA (U.S.). He also holds a master’s degree in Islamic Finance from INCEIF, Malaysia (A Global University of Islamic Finance). Apart from these, he holds two certifications from The Auditing and Accounting Organization of Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) i.e. Certified Sharia Adviser and Auditor (CSAA) and Certified Islamic Professional Accountant (CIPA). 

Since 2007 he is working as Managing Partner at Afghanistan's operations of RSM International’s member firm Avais Hyder Liaquat Nauman, Chartered Accountant and Partner in the Peshawar (Pakistan) office of the same firm. He has more than twenty (20) years of extensive experience in the field of Statutory Audits, Internal Audit, Accounting Services, Afghan Tax Services, Business Planning, and Islamic finance. 

He has managed and supervised a diverse list of different of assignments for international funding agencies (like USAID, UN, EU, World Bank, ADB etc.), NGOs, government of Afghanistan, public sector, and private sector. He is a well know trainer in Afghanistan and has trained more than 200 people on IFRS, Internal Audit, Islamic banking, and finance. He has been delivering teaching classes to ACCA students in Afghanistan.

His areas of expertise are:

• IFRS.
• External audit.
• Internal Audit, using & International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA-US). 
• Islamic Banking and Finance.
• Afghan Tax Laws. And
• Islamic finance.