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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateCandidate's Name , CPAStreet Address Laurel Lane Cell: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEKinnelon, NJ Street Address EMAIL AVAILABLERISK MANAGEMENT & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SENIOR MANAGERBusiness Advisor with Senior Management & Audit CommitteesFinance: Risk Management Internal Audit Sarbanes Oxley Street Address
Operations: Project Management & Reengineering IT Integrated Audits/Data Mining/ACL Fraud ReviewsManagement: Hiring Consultant Team Building Career DevelopmentMulti-dimensional leader with global experience in internal audit roles, working as an outsourced provider as well as directly for internal audit departments. Effectively partner with CFO to develop risk management programs in concert with business plans. Tracked remediation of exceptions and on a quarterly basis evaluated evidence of compliance to ensure items have been addressed. Extensive manufacturing, distribution & sales-driven industry experience. Highlights include:Manage Internal Audit programs for multiple public-company clients. Conduct global business risk assessments resulting in risk management action plans and internal audit coverage plans for operational, finance, IT, fraud and compliance risks.Coordinate global internal & external audit activities and Sarbanes Oxley testing for clients to maximize efficiency. With each exception that you write you create a plan for each item to be fixed and you discuss these plans with management to ensure you are on the same page.Successfully managed multiple clients to first-year Sarbanes Oxley compliance and increased efficiency in subsequent years.Utilize career development life cycle approach to hire, train, promote, as well as utilize contractors and borrowed staff to maximize efficiency.Proven problem solver with ability to work across organizational silos to establish the relationships necessary to get things done.Catalent Somerset NJ10/17 6/18Perform SOX 404 for an international company. Review SOX framework and update the framework. Perform walk thru and make SOX selections and create test workpapers.CBIZ Harrisburg, PA7/17 10/17IT ConsultantPerform a customer service audit that included a web portal and a tax module for the creation of 1099 & 1098 forms. Created narratives, test plans and tested key controls for both areas.Alexander Wang NY, NY4/17 7/17Sr. ConsultantCreated a SOX 404 program that included process narratives, key controls, test plans with expected steps and documentation. Covered 5 business processes, including Payroll, Accounts Payable, Financial Close, Fixed Assets and Revenue.Experis Parsippany, NJ11-16 4-17 & 7/17Sr. ConsultantPerform internal auditing, SOX 404 Financial and IT auditing and special projects for an audit consulting firm. The special project is to value Work in Progress for a recent acquisition in the pharmaceutical industry, New Jersey in Iowa and North Carolina. Draft audit findings, and have exit meetings. Create a sox control process for a luxury retailer and process narratives for the entire company.09/16 10/16 Dodgeville, WISOX 404 AuditorPerform SOX testing for a retail clothing corporation Lands End for Financial and IT controls. Review test scripts and evaluate and process test selections. Review SSAE16 reports and evaluate results and user control considerations.05/16 7/16 Roseland, NJRemediation CoordinatorCoordinating findings remediation for a Fortune 500 payroll services provider ADP. Create Archer reports in order to evaluate high risk IT findings and interact with the finding owners. Create the business role so that others may follow the same methodology. Develop and drive the completion of audit finding remediation plans to achieve baseline compliance for identified deficiencies and control weaknesses. Facilitate the completion of remediation efforts with IT, Business and vendor stakeholders. Ensure that proposed remediation plans are in compliance with SDLC.Evaluate remediation plans and determine if they are adequate to fix the risks that are exposed. If inadequate, interact with the finding owners and key stakeholders in order to guide adequate remediation.Tata Consultancy Services (Outsourced offshore provider of IT services)5/14 5/16IT Compliance ManagerPerform quarterly IT SOX 404 Audits and SSAE16 audits for an outsourced IT provider for a publishing company John Wiley in Somerset NJ. Perform annual scoping, creating test procedures, expected evidence and establishing remediation plans. Map IT resources to IT SOX requirements. Periodically update control framework by comparing controls to company policy and COBIT to ensure that risks are monitored and tested. Perform general and application control reviews for computer information systems. Perform information control reviews of access controls, system development standards, operating procedures, system security configuration, programming controls, communication controls, backup and disaster recovery, and system maintenance. Prepare audit finding reports and working papers to ensure adequate documentation exists to support completed audits and conclusions. Follow up on audit findings to ensure management and control owners have taken corrective actions. Used COSO and COBIT to enhance the program and initiated PCI considerations.Ensure that policy and procedures are adequate and update based on requirements. Review IT internal control processes and determine if in compliance with IT Security objectives and company policies. Meet with finding owners in order to address remediation requirements. Perform semi-annually access reviews to ensure that provisioning is approved by management and is aligned with job descriptions. Evaluate and drive IT remediation efforts and determine if they are adequate to address issues and provide for best practices. For SSAE16 evaluated ITGCs and provided to external auditors. Interacted with external auditors to minimize findings and combine them in order to achieve 98% compliance rating.Consulting3/09 05/14Internal Audit Manager/ConsultantPerform risk assessments, audit program creation, plan audits, execute audits, prepare drafts, resolve remediation and issue final reports. Work on audit assignments in various businesses; supply chain, unclaimed property, HR and payroll, month-end close, revenue and disbursements. Analysis of exceptions and provide guidance for remediation efforts. Perform operational, and compliance IT audits as assigned. Follow up on Financial and IT audit findings in order to ensure that remediation took place according to audit recommendations and management responses. Evaluate contracts to ensure that terms and service level agreements are met. Perform pre-application reviews and ensure that project plans are adequate, and have appropriate controls and that issues are resolved. Write policy and procedures for upgrading the control environment. Write desk procedures for employees involved in the monthly closing process. The companies include high tech manufacturing, financial services and specialty retail. SOX 404 have included both financial and ITGC controls. Monitor application enhancement for process improvement. Retail clients include Lands End, Coach and Manufacturing Veeco and Pitney Bowes and Financial Services American Express. Pharma client Novartis. Media Pearson Education.CBIZ RAS / Harborview (National Accounting & Professional Services Firm Big 8)3/02 9/08Senior Audit ManagerPerform risk assessments, audit program creation, plan audits, execute audits, prepare drafts, resolve remediation and issue final reports. Created and gave a presentation on a CPE training class in the area of COSO based risk assessments. Plan and oversee the implementation of annual internal audit plans for a staff of nine. Use SOX as a launch pad for COSO risk and controlbased audit programs in order to ensure that audit objectives are efficient & are successfully addressed, and customized as appropriate. Evaluate SAS 70 reports in order to evaluate UCC and determine the risks posed by exceptions in the reports. Participate in IT data center and disaster recovery audits. Establish SOX framework & dashboard to continually monitor compliance and remediation efforts. Developed linked excel spreadsheets to simplify the testing and updating of SOX 404 testing. Perform project management of SOX 404 teams. Monitor enhancement of applications for process improvement recommendations, as well as lead remediation efforts with key stakeholders and provide guidance. Conduct evaluation of risks and mapping to COSO and COBIT to ensure that risks are addressed. Write policy and procedures for companies in order to assist in SOX requirements.International Specialty Products/GAF Wayne, NJ 1997 2002Audit ManagerManage the annual audit planning stages for IS and Financial audits including annual business unit risk assessments. Train and develop staff in COSO methodology and the integrated audit approach, including hiring and the annual review decision process. Perform IT data center & disaster recovery audits. Develop audit programs which embed IS downloads into operational reviewsPerformed Due Diligence acquisition reviews, based upon inventory and A/P database analysis, obtained a $550K price decrease from an escrow account.Using ACL reviewed for duplicate payments and saved over $700k I created a plan to have IT create reports to search for duplicate payments. I described the fields that I used and manipulated and then we tested the new reports.Union Camp Wayne, NJ 1996 1997Audit SupervisorPerform IS and Integrated Operational Reviews. Involved in the audit planning, risk analysis compilation for IS and Financial audits. Train staff in using data downloads in order to perform audits that use entire databases to evaluate operations. Involved in several special projects:Reviewed an inventory that indicated that safety stock was not a component of inventory settings, this caused increased costs of $700K at one plant, while 20 plants had the same issue.Performed a pre-implementation review of the Company wide A/P and Purchasing Module and resolved an issue during go-live training that stalled the progress of 20+ employees for 2 days.Loctite Corporation Hartford, CT 1993 1996Audit SupervisorPerform IS and Integrated Sophisticated Operational Reviews. Perform reviews that included supply chain and the evaluation of ABC costing systems. Created customer/product/order profitability reviews which were accepted by the Board of Directors as a quarterly requirement. Performed IT data center & disaster recovery auditsPerformed reviews to establish the ability to predict future scrap reporting for finished goods.Developed reports to determine the adequacy of credit limits and the evaluation of A/R.Federal Paperboard Montvale, NJ 1989 1993Senior Auditor/IS AuditorPerform IS and Integrated Operational Audits. Perform extensive pre-implementation and application reviews. Ensured adequate controls were designed into all in house applications, identified an application weakness that could have easily allowed inventory to leave the plants.Technology: Archer, ACL, VISIO, SAP, Oracle, Lawson, BPCS, AS400 and homegrown applications.Education and Certificates: Seton Hall University M.B.A. FinanceWilliam Paterson College B.A. Accounting CPA & CISA (inactive status) |
