Auckland, New Zealand: The Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions (PASAI) will welcome a technical auditing and accounting professional with more than 15 years of auditing, training, and consulting experience, Sagar Adhau, to its Auckland-based Secretariat team.
From 9 January 2023 Mr Adhau will be PASAI’s Director Programmes, focusing on having member audit offices in the Pacific deliver high-quality audits on a timely basis.
Sagar Adhau
Mr Adhau is currently working as a Technical Auditing and Accounting Manager with the Office of the Auditor-General, New Zealand.
In this role he provides advice on auditing, accounting and reporting queries, monitors the independence of auditors and prepares and reviews non-standard audit reports.
He also provides technical support and develops guidance and policies for internal and external stakeholders working on auditing, accounting, climate change and financial reporting matters.
Mr Adhau has previously worked in assurance service with Deloitte (India) and PwC (Dubai) and as technical consultant with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. He has also worked as a freelance trainer with the International Security and Development Center, Get Through Guides, Kaplan Professional (Dubai) and other training providers.
He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
PASAI Chief Executive, Esther Lameko-Poutoa, looks forward to having Mr Adhau join the Secretariat staff.
“Sagar’s breadth of international auditing and training experience make him ideally suited to helping our members improve the quality of their public sector audits to recognised standards,” she said.
PASAI acknowledges the support of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
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Contact information:
Esther Lameko-Poutoa, Chief Executive PASAI, Auckland, New Zealand
E: secretariat@pasai.org P: +64 9 304 1275
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