Abdul Hafiz Qazizada

Mr. Hafiz Qazizada is an accomplished expert in Financial advisory, project development, budget forecasting, Auditing& Assurance, and governance with more than8 years of experience.

Mr. Hafiz Qazizada, originally from Afghanistan and holds hiss bachelor’s degree in Commerce in 2019 Associated Certified Chartered Accountant (ACCA) Finalist and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Finalist.

His work has included, financial consulting, local governance, local government capacity building, service delivery improvements and policy reforms for national and international Organizations. Hafiz has extensive experience in support of United Nation, USAID, ADB,WB and other donors funded projects. He also served as Senior Auditor and provided support to projects working with Ministries of Agriculture at both the national and sub-national levels to review credit ,tax policies, compliance with applicable framework, Compliance with Laws and regulation. He also supported work with Grant Thornton Afghanistan aimed at developing the international Accounting standards & international Financial reporting standards to the local and international organization, He also worked with Boston Consultancy Group in Maharashtra–India as Financial Analyst to improve the financial aspect of the company and the clients by providing the financial consulting, governance, compliance with international applicable framework.

He has effective verbal and written communication, multi-tasking, organizational, and prioritization skills with an ability to effectively represent projects and their interests to a diverse range of stakeholders, including government officials, civil society organizations, donors, other international organizations, the media, and the community. He has also have demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow and enforce procedures, meet deadlines. Presently Mr. Hafiz Qazizada is working as Senior Audit Supervisor for Grant Thornton Afghanistan who develops proposal writing for donors, Auditing national and international Organization with applicability of ISAs, Assessing & reviewing financial statements of the companies to give them the audit opinions.

Abdul Hafiz' mentor is Marina Antoniou.

Note: Abdul Hafiz graduated from the mentoring programme in 2020 and he was 28 at the time.