Salman Bin Khalid

Salman has 18+ years of experience with Big 4 firms in Audit, Assurance and Accounting Advisory, five of which he has spent in KPMG Kuwait’s Audit function. In his tenure at KPMG Kuwait, he has provided Audit and Assurance services to leading financial service organizations and driven crucial initiatives such as the firm’s Audit Internship Program as well as its System of Quality Management (SoQM) process. He has played a pivotal part in KPMG Kuwait’s Audit and Assurance services to key financial services organizations across oil and gas, telecommunications, e-commerce, automotive, infrastructure, family business and private enterprises, among other industries.

Experience

Over the years, Salman has been engaged in providing audit and assurance services to leading financial service organizations in Kuwait. His experience extends to other sectors such as oil and gas, telecommunications, e-commerce solutions, automotive, infrastructure, family business and private enterprises.

He also has experience in providing technical IFRS advisory to banking clients, as well as other sectors on topics such as classification and measurement of financial instruments, control assessment of complex structures, common control transactions, mergers and acquisitions, fair value measurements, functional currency and others.

Salman has also led projects on IFRS Gap assessment where he assisted the clients to layout and understand the gaps in the compliance-based accounting framework to full IFRS reporting framework.

He has also been previously engaged in the implementation of new standards such as IFRS 9, IFRS 15, IFRS 16 and IFRS 17 and to advise the clients on the required changes driven by these standards, including the impact on corporate governance, strategy, business and financial reporting.