Partners

 

Bernard Tapera
Partner
Assurance
Grant Thornton, UAE

Bernard Tapera

Bernard joined the UAE firm recently from Grant Thornton UK, where he has spent the last 3 years. Prior to that Bernard spent 12 years with Deloitte & Touche in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the UK. He is a member of the Zimbabwe institute of chartered accountants. He has experience in auditing, specializing in financial, manufacturing, and service sectors. Other areas of expertise include US audit and financial reporting, UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) compliance reviews, and PPP/PFI reviews and accounting evaluation.

Bernard completed his articles with Deloitte & Touche in Zimbabwe and rose through the ranks to Senior Manager in 2000 after qualifying as a Chartered Accountant. He joined Deloitte & Touche LLP in the UK in 2001 and has held various senior audit roles with the firm and later Grant Thornton. During this period Bernard spent 18 months seconded to the Financial Services Practice of Deloitte UK, providing audit services and FSA compliance reviews. 

 

Raza Meghji
Partner
Assurance
Grant Thornton, UAE

Raza Meghji

Raza holds a BA (hons) Accounting and Financial Management degree from the University of Sheffield, UK and is a qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, UK. 

Raza has extensive experience in the audit of diverse industries including IT, service and manufacturing, focusing on large, multi-national, private and public companies.  He has very strong technical ability, with proficiency in both UK GAAP and IFRS, and regularly gets involved in special projects including GAAP conversion exercises, transaction services, including IPOs and due diligence assignments.  Raza was also seconded on a large forensic assignment during his time in the UK, gaining experience in areas such as fraud and auditor negligence litigation.

 

Mohamed Zakaria Sadek
Partner
Assurance
Grant Thornton, UAE

Mohamed Zakaria Sadek

Zakaria holds a B Com (Hons) Accounting Degree from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.  He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants In England (Wales) and is a member of the United Arab Emirates Accountants & Auditors Association. 

 He began his career at Grant Thornton in the Johannesburg branch.  After completing his traineeship at the firm he went on to becoming a manager within the external audit division.  After spending sometime as a manager, he was promoted to partner level.

Zakaria has extensive audit experience within the retail, manufacturing, mining and insurance sectors. He was involved in various large assignments both at the private and publicly listed level.  His strong technical background allows him to get involved in various assignments such as the conversion from local GAAP to IFRS as well as due diligence assignments.

            

Mandeep Singh
Director
Strategic Consulting
Grant Thornton, UAE

Mandeep Singh

Mandeep holds a Bachelors Honors Degree in Mathematics from Panjab University, India and has completed his MBA with specialization in Organization Behavior and Organization Development.

Mandeep has over 11 years of experience across consulting and line functions. He has assisted clients across a range of business and HR issues like business plan, organizational development initiatives like career development, competency assessment, culture studies, leadership development etc. He is also one of the foremost experts in the field of Employee Engagement having completed over 400 assignments in around 21 countries.   

In his past experience, he has lead Talent Management at Bharti Airtel (India's leading telecom service provider) and the Employee Listening vertical at Hewitt. He has also managed international markets during his stint at Hewitt Associates. 

Mandeep previously was in Grant Thornton's India office where he was responsible for a variety of high profile consulting assignments.