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About JRB

Welcome to JRB Chartered Accountants, a leading professional Chartered Accountant Firm in Dubai, UAE providing Audit, Accounting, Tax, Risk Advisory, Business Consulting, Technology consulting and Corporate services. We specialize in assisting SMEs and corporate clients with cost-effective, high-quality services and solutions. We create value by investing in highly qualified and motivated people and working closely with leading industry partners to provide our clients a one stop shop for all their business support.

We believe in leveraging innovation to improve the way our client’s function and grow. That is why, at JRB, we combine the specialized skills that we have gained across business functions in over 20 industries with our hands-on experience. We are one of the top audit firms in Dubai, UAE registered with free zones, government authorities including MOE, DED, RERA, DMCC, DAFZA SAIFZONE, Hamriyah Free Zone and others.

We adopt to best in-class international standards, tools, and methodologies to ensure the service provided is of the highest technical, professional, and ethical standards for the benefit of our clients.

Our Vision

We aim to be the partner of choice for Audit, Accounting, Tax, Risk Advisory, Technology and Corporate Services for businesses across the globe.

Our Mission

We strive to deliver innovative solutions that not only boost productivity and efficiency for our customers but also help them create sustainable value for their stakeholders.

Our Presence

Our purpose and culture

Having a focused approach in each of our markets also means we can grow and evolve our purpose in a meaningful, relevant and impactful way. Purpose has been fundamental to the growth of our brand, as well as being a key factor in attracting and retaining talent.

It is clear to us, however, that we need to evolve our purpose so that it resonates with our people in a more meaningful and consistent way. Our people joined JRB because they have a strong social conscience. we want to grow our sense of social responsibility but to do it in a way that is relevant to what our people do on a day-to- day basis. We will do that by ensuring purpose is rooted in a commercial context, by focusing on our clients and the challenges and opportunities we can help them with.

Our Partner

Our Expertise

Financial Institutions
Manufacturing
Technology
Retail & Trading
Real Estate & Construction
Travel & Hospitality
Healthcare
Insurance
Family Groups
Not for profit
Precious Metals

Our Team

Leadership team

Salman Rafique
FCCA, UAECA, BSc

Partner & Co-Founder

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Rashmi Jain
FCA, DISA, M.Com

Partner & Co-Founder

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Uday Bhasin
FCA, CF, BA (Econ)

Associate Partner

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Salman Rafique

Salman brings 17 years of experience to JRB working with both private and public companies in the UAE. Salman gained his experience while working for clients from large family-groups and diverse range of organizations in industries, including insurance, banks, real estate & RERA, construction, hospitality, manufacturing, trading, technology, and healthcare. Salman has extensive experience in the field of audit & assurance, compliance, advisory, reporting & International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), obtained as a result of working and managing a wide portfolio of public and private clients. His broad expanse of international and local experience allows him to bring a unique perspective to the clients he services whilst enabling them to grow.

Previously, he has held senior management positions with leading global accounting & consulting firms. He is a Fellow member of Institute of Chartered Certified Accountants and a Certified Compliance and AML officer.

Rashmi Jain

During her career spanning over almost 2 decades, Rashmi has gained extensive exposure with a prime focus on strategic guidance and critical thinking. Her expertise lies in accounting, auditing, taxation, risk management, advisory and allied service lines such as due diligence, fraud, and dispute investigations. During her career she has had intensive exposure to accounting and audit of these sectors. Rashmi has worked on an array of sectors such as hospitality and leisure industries, manufacturing, shipping, consumer and retail (ecommerce, F&B, consumer durables et cetera), healthcare and not-for-profit organizations.

Prior to joining JRB, Rashmi has worked for a decade in the UAE and was associated with firms which were ranked amongst the Top-10 globally. She also led the VAT Impact assessments for Clients belonging to various industries in the UAE. In India, she ran her own independent practice wherein taxation was at the very core. She has vast experience in areas of Direct Taxes and was representing Clients in India at the first appellate stage and also before Tax Tribunals.

Uday Bhasin

Uday specializes in advising corporates and families on strategic matters as well as restructuring and bridging capital flows between Middle East, Asia, Europe and Africa. Uday has been privilaged to lead a number of landmark transaction across these regions.

Prior to his current role, Uday was a Chief Investment and Finance Officer at Sharjah Holding where he managed investments in excess of AED 1.5bn.

Uday joined Sharjah Holding from Dubai Group, the diversified financial services company focussed on banking, investments and insurance. Dubai Group is a private investment company with majority and significant minority positions in business that operate in both Developed and Emerging Markets. The multi-billion dollar portfolio consisted of over 100 listed and unlisted assets. Uday was responsible for the management of a billion dollar portfolio of subsidiary banking assets, the restructuring and the formulation of a strategic response to the financial crisis. Uday Bhasin was instrumental in the restructuring of the proposal to the creditor banks of Dubai Group which consisted over 20 banks and was a total debt value of US$ 10bn.

Before joining Dubai Group, Uday spent ten years working in the UK, Africa, India and UAE for PricewaterhouseCoopers(PwC), one of the world's largest providers of assurance, tax and business consulting services. Uday advised on several landmark transactions including the GBP5bn acquasition of ABSA by Barclay's Bank.

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