KINGSTON, Jamaica – KPMG in Caricom has appointed three new audit companions to additional strengthen its audit follow for purchasers in private and non-private sectors throughout the area.
Management Appointments
The management appointments which took impact earlier this month embody Audit Companions, Uday Bhalara who joins KPMG in Jamaica bringing over 18 years of expertise, Damion Reid, additionally from KPMG in Jamaica, bringing over 18 years of expertise, and Chay Gomez, resident in Trinidad & Tobago, with over 13 years of expertise. All three new companions have sturdy worldwide expertise and are dedicated to shopper service supply.
Jamaica – Uday Bhalara
Companion, Audit
Resident: Jamaica
Uday Bhalara has labored with numerous multi-national purchasers all over the world and makes a speciality of monetary sector audits, with a key give attention to banks. Uday’s portfolio additionally contains listed corporations, public sector entities, manufacturing, vitality and pure assets, and client industrial markets. Having beforehand served on the Audit Group at KPMG in India and as a Companion at one other worldwide audit agency in Uganda, he has developed a monitor report in high quality and audit transformation. In his new function, he’ll work with purchasers to make sure that audits are executed persistently, in keeping with the necessities and intent of relevant skilled requirements, inside a robust system of high quality management.
Jamaica – Damion Reid
Companion, Audit
Resident: Jamaica
Damion Reid, who began his audit profession at KPMG’s Montego Bay workplace with development via Kingston and Hamilton, Bermuda, may have a specialised give attention to the Insurance coverage, Travel, Leisure & Tourism, and Company sectors. His twin presence in Kingston and Montego Bay positions him to cater to purchasers’ numerous wants in these places and the broader Caricom, addressing distinctive regulatory calls for prevalent in these industries.
Trinidad and Tobago – Chay Gomez
Companion, Audit
Resident: Trinidad and Tobago
Chay Gomez brings world publicity and native insights having labored with KPMG in Trinidad and Tobago and the UK (UK). Within the UK, Chay had intensive expertise in information analytics, studying and improvement, and delivering excessive worth to his diversified portfolio of purchasers. As an Audit Companion, Chay will give attention to enhancing audit effectivity to fulfill purchasers’ wants, whereas driving his ardour for growing younger expertise throughout Caricom.
Barbados – Ravi Sankar
Along with the above new accomplice appointments, KPMG additionally introduced that Ravi Sankar, Advisory Companion, specializing in Cybersecurity and Expertise Consulting, who was beforehand based mostly at its Kingston workplace, will now be connected to the Hastings, Barbados workplace. Ravi’s presence on this key location will improve KPMG’s capabilities and responsiveness to purchasers’ evolving wants, notably within the realm of cybersecurity and information safety.
The Companion appointments have been complemented by a number of Director promotions throughout KPMG in Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad & Tobago, additional strengthening the agency’s management throughout the area.
“As KPMG in Caricom continues to rework itself throughout the area, these strategic appointments underscore our dedication to bolstering management, enhancing audit high quality, delivering strategic advisory companies, and providing modern options to our purchasers, all while setting up our future leaders to give attention to shopper service” shared R. Tarun Handa, Senior Companion at KPMG in Caricom. “We warmly welcome our new Companions to the senior management staff and prolong our congratulations to our newly promoted Administrators,” he added.
