Imran Dhalla

A seasoned audit professional, Imran commenced his audit journey with Crowe in Tanzania and having moved to the UAE in 2018, he carries nearly 15 years of diverse audit experience. Imran currently co-leads the external audit team at the DIFC office that primarily executes audits for a diverse range of clients with key focus on financial services. While his current expertise is focused on the financial services sector, Imran has managed and continues to manage the delivery of statutory audits for global clients across diverse sectors that includes financial services mainly entailing insurance and reinsurance, banking, asset management, funds, and other sectors including but not limited to manufacturing, hospitality, service provision and real estate. He adopts a holistic approach of managing audits by leading and motivating various audit teams in the effective planning, delivery and finalisation of statutory audits to meet time critical deadlines.

He implements a client-centric approach which gives high importance to service delivery while at the same time, giving due importance to technical competence. He also leads the Audit Software technology team for the Firm and from time to time, engages his expertise in the provision of consultancy services including forensic engagements. From his experience in Tanzania, Imran is also well versed with various taxes from both, compliance and audit perspectives and from his experience in the DIFC, he also specializes in regulatory reporting in terms of compliance with Prudential Reporting, Safe Custody, Client Money and Insurance Money provisions of the DFSA and FSRA.