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🔍 Certified IS Auditor and Certified in Cybersecurity with a keen eye for IT security, IT Risk & Controls, SOC, ITGC, ITAC, compliance, and risk management. I specialize in evaluating IT systems, ensuring regulatory compliance, and strengthening cybersecurity controls (covering logical accesses, change management and IT operations) to protect businesses from threats and vulnerabilities. What I Offer: ✅IT & Internal Audit engagement (ISO 27001, NIST, COBIT, SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS) ✅Risk Assessment & Control Evaluations ✅ Cybersecurity Assessments & Compliance Checks ✅ IT Governance & Internal Control Reviews ✅ Security Policy Development & Implementation ✅ IT General Control Testing, IT Application Control Testing ✅ Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning Why Work With Me? ✔ 5+ years of experience in IT auditing, SOC Assessment. Internal Audit, Cybersecurity, and Compliance ✔ Expertise in regulatory frameworks & industry best practices ✔ Strong communication skills—clear, actionable reporting ✔ Commitment to helping businesses secure their IT environment 💡 Let’s work together to strengthen your IT security, Business controls, ensure compliance, and mitigate risks effectively. Contact me today to discuss your project!

Experienced professional with extensive expertise of Big4 (Deloitte and PwC) in accounting, assurance, and governance, risk, and compliance. Worked across diverse regions, including Saudi Arabia, UAE, China, and Pakistan, with a strong focus on telecom and technology sectors. Successfully collaborated with leading organizations such as STC, e&, Mobily, and China Mobile, providing tailored solutions that drive operational excellence and compliance. 1. Extensive experience of IFRS/US GAAP implementation, finance digital/ AI transformation, climate finance and bookkeeping services. 2. Demonstrated success in internal audits across finance, commercial operations, and network operations, focusing on compliance, operational efficiency, and policy and process standardisation. 3. Adept at conducting Internal Control Reviews (ICR), quality audits, annual risk assessments, and financial reporting audits to ensure accuracy and reliability. 4. Skilled in designing and improving policies and processes as part of management consulting engagements, delivering enhanced controls and risk mitigation strategies.

Automated systems flag obvious risks, but the real threats and costliest false positives hide in the edge cases. With over two years of hands-on experience in the FinCrime operations of a global fintech giant, I specialize in frontline screening, risk assurance, and compliance process optimization. I do not simply process complex alerts; I audit the workflows behind them to ensure your defense systems are impenetrable, perfectly aligned with global regulations, and operationally efficient. Core Areas of Expertise: Financial Crime Compliance: Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions & PEP Screening, and Adverse Media investigations. Due Diligence & Onboarding: Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), and meticulous KYC/KYB document verification (authenticating IDs and spotting forged/synthetic submissions). Risk & Fraud Operations: Fraud Investigation, Transaction Monitoring, Behavioral Analysis, and end-to-end Case Management. Quality Assurance & Auditing: Risk Assessment, reviewing analyst investigations, identifying procedural gaps, and driving SOP updates to improve team accuracy. The Technical Edge: I leverage advanced data analysis (Google Sheets, pivot tables, complex data structures) and AI-assisted scripting to automate reporting workflows, track compliance KPIs, and significantly reduce processing times. Recognized for strong analytical thinking, uncompromising attention to detail, sound judgment, and a commitment to maintaining the highest standards of compliance.

Upwork Top Rated · 100% Job Success · CISM Certified · 10 Years Experience I help SaaS and cloud-native companies reach audit-ready status for SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and GDPR — on schedule, without disrupting your product roadmap or slowing down your sales cycle. I have led compliance programmes across the full lifecycle — from initial gap assessment and policy design through to auditor coordination and surveillance audit preparation. My engagements cover every department that auditors touch: IT, HR, Legal, Finance, DevOps, and Procurement — so nothing falls through the cracks and you walk into audit day confident. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT I DELIVER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▸ SOC 2 Type I & II Readiness Full gap assessment, control mapping, policy library, and auditor coordination — from kickoff to clean audit report. ▸ ISO 27001 Certification & Surveillance Support ISMS design and implementation, Statement of Applicability, risk register, internal audit programme, and evidence preparation for certification and surveillance audits. ▸ GDPR Compliance Data mapping, Records of Processing Activities (RoPA), DPIAs, privacy notices, Data Processing Agreements, and breach notification procedures. ▸ AI Governance & ISO 42001 Emerging framework — policy design and readiness assessments for organisations integrating AI into their products and workflows. ▸ Security Policy Library 30+ audit-ready policies written in plain language — policies your engineers will actually read and follow, not 40-page documents that sit on a shelf. ▸ Vendor & Third-Party Risk Management Supplier security assessments, due diligence questionnaires, contract security clauses, and ongoing monitoring frameworks. ▸ Audit Coordination & Evidence Management I act as your single point of contact with external auditors — managing evidence requests, Information Request Lists (IRLs), and auditor communications so your team can stay focused on the product. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FRAMEWORKS & STANDARDS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOC 2 · ISO 27001:2022 · GDPR · PCI DSS · NIST CSF · ISO 42001 · HIPAA · CIS Controls ISO 9001 · ISO 20000-1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY CLIENTS CHOOSE ME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ I understand your stack before you explain it I work exclusively with SaaS and cloud-native teams on AWS, GCP, and Azure. I speak the language of your engineers, not just your auditors. ✔ I write policies people actually follow Every policy I deliver is proportionate, readable, and built around your actual workflows — not copied from a template library. ✔ I cover the full scope — not just one layer Most consultants focus on IT controls. I work across HR, Legal, Finance, DevOps, and Procurement — the departments auditors always reach into and that always catch companies off guard. ✔ I have coordinated with major audit firms I have prepared evidence packages and managed IRL submissions for surveillance and certification audits coordinated with firms including - so I know exactly what auditors look for and what they push back on. ✔ I deliver structure, not just advice Every engagement produces working artefacts: trackers, dashboards, policy documents, risk registers, and roadmaps — not slide decks with recommendations you have to figure out how to implement. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO I WORK WITH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I work primarily with SaaS companies preparing for their first SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit, and with established companies managing surveillance audits or expanding their compliance scope into GDPR or AI governance. Typical client profile: → 20–300 employees → Cloud-native infrastructure (AWS / GCP / Azure) → Small or no internal security team → Facing an enterprise customer security review or upcoming audit → Compliance is blocking a deal or a funding round

"We need to become compliant... but where do we even start?" This is one of the most common conversations I have with business leaders. For many organizations, cybersecurity compliance is viewed as a necessary burden rather than a business enabler. There are regulations to satisfy. Customers asking for certifications. Enterprise clients demanding security questionnaires. Audits approaching. Teams unsure where to begin. And management wondering... "Will all of this actually add value to the business?" The answer is yes—if compliance is implemented correctly. A well-designed Compliance Management Program is far more than a collection of policies or an audit checklist. It helps organizations: ✅ Meet regulatory obligations with confidence. ✅ Win customer trust and unlock new business opportunities. ✅ Reduce cybersecurity and privacy risks. ✅ Establish repeatable governance processes. ✅ Prepare for audits without the last-minute panic. Whether your organization needs to comply with ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO 42001, GDPR, HIPAA, PDPL, NIST, SAMA, CTDISR, or requires an integrated compliance program that combines multiple frameworks, the objective should always be the same: Build compliance once. Reuse it across multiple regulatory and business requirements. That is exactly where I help. I work alongside organizations from the very beginning—not simply as an auditor, but as a trusted compliance partner. I help organizations: • Assess their current maturity and identify compliance gaps. • Design a practical, business-aligned Compliance Management Program. • Develop policies, procedures, governance structures, and technical controls. • Conduct risk assessments and internal audits. • Prepare for certification and regulatory assessments. • Build meaningful KPIs and compliance metrics for executive reporting. • Create cost-effective solutions by integrating multiple frameworks instead of treating every regulation as a separate project. Most importantly... I don't just deliver documents and leave. One of the biggest reasons compliance programs fail is because employees are never properly onboarded. A successful compliance program depends on people. That's why I personally work with teams to: ✔ Explain why each control exists. ✔ Conduct practical awareness sessions and hands-on workshops. ✔ Train process owners and control owners. ✔ Help employees understand their responsibilities. ✔ Ensure the organization can independently sustain the program after my engagement ends. My objective is simple: When I offboard, your organization should not become dependent on me—it should become confident enough to manage compliance on its own. Over the past 9+ years, I've had the privilege of supporting organizations across government, healthcare, financial services, telecom, SaaS, and technology sectors on national and international engagements. Some of the work I'm proud to have contributed to includes: • Enabling an application to achieve compliance required for approval by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). • Supporting organizations in achieving ISO 27001, SOC 2, PDPL, and other regulatory compliance objectives. • Developing cybersecurity governance and policy frameworks for organizations in Saudi Arabia. • Assisting a client in obtaining product licensing through compliance with Qatar PDPL. • Preparing AI governance playbooks aligned with the EU AI Act. • Conducting internal audits, compliance assessments, and remediation programs across government and private-sector organizations. Certifications • Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) • ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Auditor • ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Auditor • Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) – ISC² • ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Associate • ISO/IEC 20000 IT Service Management Associate I genuinely believe that compliance should never slow down business—it should enable growth, strengthen customer confidence, and improve organizational resilience. If your organization is planning its first compliance initiative, struggling with multiple regulatory obligations, or looking for a practical and cost-effective compliance partner, let's connect. I'd be happy to help turn compliance into a business advantage. 🌍 Standards & Frameworks I Work With: ISO 27001 | ISO 42001 | ISO 22301 | ISO 27011 | ISO 15408 (Common Criteria) | SOC 2 | NIST 800-53 | NIST CSF | CIS Controls | PCI DSS | HIPAA | GDPR | SAMA | CTDISR | PDPL-UAE| PDPL-Qatar| PDPL- KSA 🔑 Keywords: Internal Audit | Cybersecurity GRC | Risk Assessment | Gap Analysis | ISO 27001 | SOC 2 | Compliance | NIST CSF | GDPR | HIPAA | AI Compliance | Policy Development | Audit Reporting | Remediation Planning | Cost-effective Security Solutions | ISO 42001 | CTDISR | CIS Controls | AI Risk Management| SAMA| PDPL| CTDISR| Risk Management| Audit Documentation| Policy Review and Update| Research| CIPP/E

Top Rated Freelancer on Upwork for more than 3 years specializing in PCI DSS, SOC2 certifications, vCISO, penetration testing and vulnerability assessment services. Got 5+ long term clients after building their Information Security Governance program from the scratch and getting them certified against SOC2 Type 2 and PCI DSS certifications. A high ratio of client retention by delivering top notch penetration test and vulnerability assessments reports. Seasoned professional with 10 years of experience in Information Security Governance, operations, Risk & Compliance. I provide PCI DSS and SOC2 audit certification services, conduct penetration tests and implementation and management of SIEM solutions.