MOHAMMAD AHSAN HABIB CHOWDHURY FCA

Managing Partner

Mohammed Ahsan Habib Chowdhury, FCA is the Managing Partner of Ahsan Atik & Co., Chartered Accountants. He is also Chairman of BuildOn Advisory Services Ltd. Mr. Chowdhury has an illustrious corporate career spanning 25 (Twenty-five) years with reputed MNC’s in home and abroad which included Coats Bangladesh Ltd, Perfetti Van Melle Bangladesh Ltd, Unilever Bangladesh Limited (UBL) and Unilever Asia Private Ltd (Singapore).

Mr. Chowdhury received advance audit training on risk-based audits from UK and was specially trained on SoX audit techniques in home and abroad during his corporate stint in Unilever. During his audits in various international Unilever companies in Asia and Africa as corporate audit manager, Mr. Chowdhury had covered broad spectrums of business covering Finance, Supply chain including safety & quality, Taxation and Governance. He has vast knowledge and practical experience in designing and implementing Internal controls, risk-based audits program, corporate governance and SoX controls. Mr. Chowdhury has gathered comprehensive technical knowledge and practical experience in VAT, Income Tax and custom bond in his long corporate career. He has sound hands-on experience in Labor law, IR, LTA and remuneration management from his successful corporate careers.

Mr. Chowdhury is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh and M. Com (Finance) from University of Chittagong.

Prior to founding Ahsan Atik & Co., Mr. Chowdhury served Coats Plc, a leading UK based MNC as Finance Director for more than 6 years. Before joining Coats, he was CFO & Head of Legal & Corporate Affairs for Perfetti Van Melle, another European MNC in food industries. Mr. Chowdhury worked for Unilever in Bangladesh and Singapore for long 15 years in different capacities like Finance controller, Finance Manager, Corporate audit manager and Corporate Risk controller etc.