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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateCandidate's Name , CPA, MBAStreet Address Cosgrove WayDumfries, VA Street Address
(C): PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE(C): PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEEMAIL AVAILABLE/eampate@yahoo.comGeorge Mason University, Fairfax, VABS AccountingAmerican University, Washington, DCMBAASSOCIATIONS:Certified Public Accountant, State of California,Member of American Institute of Certified Public AccountantsMember of ISACAPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCESUMMARY OF EXPERIENCEHas twenty-seven (27) year experience, knowledge, and insight in financial management, accounting, and auditing and other attestation services such as process improvement, finance transformation, internal control implementation and evaluation, enterprise risk management, grant management, cost analysis and financial statement analysis and compilation. In all the services stated above, I applied various laws, regulations, guidance, and standards to perform the engagement. That include Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS), Government Auditing Standard Board (GASB), American Institute of Certified Public Accountant (AICPA) standards, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Contract Audit Agency Manual (DCAA), Office of Management and Budget Circulars (OMB), National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) and various Federal, State and Local government requirements.Following Selected Organizations Provides in Detail My Experience for Past Seventeen (17) YearsGKA, PC CPA & Consulting Senior Audit Manager July 2015 to PresentDistrict of Columbia Department (Dept) of Housing and Community Development/ Housing Production Trust Fund (HPTF); DC Universal Service Trust Fund (DCUSTF); and Wyoming Universal Service Fund (WUSF) Financial Statement Audits Developed and executed audit plan; documented current internal control system; identified and assessed inherent, control and fraud risks; evaluated the design of internal control system for adequacy; verified and validated evidence to confirm internal control operating effectiveness; performed detail examination of evidence supporting account balances and performed analytical procedures to validate if transactions were complete, accurate, consistent and reasonable; and prepared and issued an independent auditors report, that include communication of any internal control deficiencies and material misstatement of account balances, and provided recommendation to resolve control deficiencies, waste and abuse of resources, and process improvement.US Dept of Transportation/Federal Transit Administration (FTA) FTAs Client Incurred Cost Submission Audit, Financial Management Review and Pre-award Survey; DC Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) Incurred Cost Proposal; and DC Water and Sewer- Waters Client Incurred Cost Submission Audit- Developed and executed audit plan; documented current internal control system; identified and assessed inherent, control and fraud risks; evaluated the design of internal control system for adequacy; verified and validated evidence to confirm internal control operating effectiveness; performed detail examination of direct cost, fringe benefit, and indirect cost Pool for allowability, allocability, completeness and reasonableness. And analyzed indirect cost rate for reasonableness. Also, prepared and issued an independent auditors report, that included communication of any internal control deficiencies, recovery of any question cost and provided recommendation for process improvement.DC Dept of Healthcare Finance Medicaid Recipient Cost Recovery Audit and Medicaid Cost Report Performance Audit - Developed and executed audit plan, performed detail review and analysis of medical codes associated with service and claims; and reviewed and analyzed health cost report (Claims Payment); validated if the Medicaid practitioners and recipients applied correct, accurate and consistent codes and claimed accurate and reasonable cost (Payment); and issued an independent auditors report that include communication of any recovery question cost.DC Dept of Motor Vehicle (DMV) - International Registration Plan, (IRP) and DC Office State Superintendent of Education Compliance Audit - Developed and executed audit plan; For DMV IRP Compliance Audit - evaluated design of internal control system for adequacy; validated evidence to confirm internal control operating effectiveness; performed detail examination of actual distance travelled by Carriers registered in the IRP program. For Enrolment Compliance Audit - Performed physical head count of students registered in the DC public school system for Mayors office fiscal budgeting, and verified and validated student records for completeness, accuracy, consistency, and existence. And issued an independent auditors compliance reports for both audits. That included communication of noncompliance and the associated fines or penalties for the IRP program. And tuition and fees for students that are not DC residence but registered in the DC public school system.DC Office Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Evaluation of Enterprise Risk Management Conducted walkthroughs and interviews with subject matter experts at enterprise level to identify risk, and governance and applications used to support the risk management. Also, reviewed policies and procedures manuals to identify internal control objectives and activities put in place by management to mitigate enterprise risk; assessed the level of enterprise risk. and issued an attestation report, that included communication of control inadequacies, best practices and process for improvement.Army General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) Information System Audit Readiness and DC Office Chief Financial Officer/Office of Tax Revenue/Real Property Tax Assessment (RPTA) Information System (IT) Audit - Developed and executed audit plan, documented IT general and application control system and security and privacy controls; identified and assessed information system risks; evaluated the design of IT general, application, security and privacy control System; performed vulnerability and penetration testing of network security environment for operating effectiveness; performed detail verification and validation of evidence supporting application controls for operating effectiveness; and issued an independent auditors report that included communication of deficiencies and recommendation for process improvement.DC Office of Chief Financial Officer - Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFR) Audit Conducted walkthrough of accounting cycles (business process) and interviews with subject matter experts to document my understanding of internal control system; Reviewed internal control system to identify and assess inherent, control and fraud risks; evaluated the design of internal control system for adequacy; verified and validated evidence supporting the internal control system to confirm if the internal control system is operating effectively; and performed detail examination of evidence supporting account balances to confirm if they are complete, accurate, consistent and reasonable; and performed various analytical procedures for reasonableness.GMG Management Consulting - Senior Manager January 2013 to July 2015US Dept of Agriculture/Forest Service (USF); Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and US Agency for Internation Development (USAID) Grant Management Performance and Compliance Audit - Performed grant management performance and compliance audit on behalf of the agencies stated above. Audited recipients of grants such as state and local government agencies, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations. Developed and executed audit plan; documented internal control systems, identified inherent, control and fraud risks; evaluated the design of internal control system for adequacy; verified and validated evidence to confirm internal control operating effectiveness; performed detail examination of account balances and analyzed direct cost, indirect cost, cost sharing and provisional rates or negotiated indirect cost rate for allowability, allocability and reasonableness; and issued an independent auditors report include any control deficiencies, recovery of question cost, inefficiencies and waste of grant resources.Dept of State - Afghanistans Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) - Public Financial Management Risk Assessment (PFMRA) Developed and executed project management plan, conducted walkthrough of financial management and interview subject matter experts to documented internal control system; reviewed policies and procedure manuals to identify and assess inherent, control and fraud risks; evaluated the design of internal control system for adequacy; and verified and validated evidence to confirm internal control operating effectiveness; and issued an attestation report, that included communication of level of risk at the functional level, inadequate or gap in internal control system to mitigate risks, and recommendation for process improvement.Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) Property, Plant & Equipment Management Audit Readiness - Developed and executed project management plan, conducted walkthrough and interview with subject matter expert to document internal control system; reviewed policies and procedure manuals to identify and assess inherent, control and fraud risks; evaluated the design of Internal Control System for accuracy; verified and validated evidence to confirm internal control operating effectiveness; and issued an attestation report include internal control deficiencies, process improvement and best practices.Department of Health and Human Services - Public Support Center Internal Control implementation- Documented internal control system, identified and assessed inherent, control and fraud risks; evaluated the design of internal control system for accuracy; verified and validated evidence to confirm internal control operating effectiveness; and developed and executed corrective action plan to investigate and correct internal control deficiencies.OFORI & ASSOCIATES, PC - Program/Project Manager March 2007 to January 2013Dept of Homeland Security / National Protection and Program Directorate (NPPD) - Audit Readiness Reviewed audit remediation plan to gain understand of the nature, type and scope of deficiencies and account balance misstatements; developed and executed project plan and approach to implement remediation plan; performed root causes analysis to drill down to the component, research and investigate control deficiencies and account balance misstatement; identified and assessed inherent, control and fraud risk; developed and implemented internal control objectives and activities to mitigate Inherent, Control and fraud risks; verified and validated evidence to confirm the existence and operating effectiveness of internal control; and issued an attestation report that include risk matrix, inventory of internal controls, best practices and tracking device (tool) to monitor and track continuous process improvement, and knowledge and document management tool.Dept of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) / Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) Implementation of Housing Assistance Program to Hurricane Katrina & IKE Victims - Developed and executed project management plan and approach; developed and implemented housing assistance policies and procedures as a guidance to facilitate Public Housing Agency to execute the program; developed and implemented a MS Access tool to track, monitor, audit, and report statistical data on housing assistance to US Congress. And performed detailed examination of evidence supporting the Public Housing Agency records to ensure they complied with program requirements, and avoid fraud, waste, and abuse.Government Accountability Office (GAO) - Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) Information System Audit - Developed and executed audit plan, documented IT general, application, security and privacy controls, identified and assessed information system security risk; evaluated the design of IT general, application, security and privacy controls; performed vulnerability and penetration testing of network security environment; and verified and validated evidence to confirm the operating effectiveness of application controls; verified and validated evidence to confirm compliance with NIST IT security requirements; and issued an independent auditors IT audit report that included compromise or vulnerability in network security environment, and deficiencies in application control system.Dept of HUD/Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Dept of Veteran Affairs (VA)- Implementation of Internal Control - Developed and executed project management plan, documented internal control system, identified and assessed inherent, control and fraud risks; evaluated the design of internal control system for adequacy; verified and validated evidence to confirm the internal control operating effectiveness; issued an attestation report, that included communicated internal control deficiencies, risk and control matrix (MS Access) to track, monitor and report internal control, developed and executed corrective action plan, performed root cause analysis to drill down to components, investigate, research and correct deficiencies and re-assess risks, and continuous improvement, lesson learn and best practices.Prudential Insurance Company and Fannie Mae - SOX 302 and 404 Compliances Verified and validated evidence supporting various accounting transactions for existence, occurrence, completeness, and reasonableness.Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and Ginnie Mae - Financial Statement Reviews For FTA - Reviewed and analyzed evidence supporting financial statements of various state and local government transit agencies that received Federal Transit Grants from FTA to ensure compliance with Federal grant requirements. For Ginnie Mae Reviewed and analyzed financial statement of various mortgage bankers (lenders) that issue Ginnie Maes mortgage back securities to validate if they have adequate cash flow to pay down short-term debt, assets funded by equity and debt ratios, and complied with HUD Mortgage Loan Issuance Requirements.Detail experience for the following organizations would be provided upon request:Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) - Control Manager August 2004 to March 2007BearingPoint Inc - Senior Consultant March 2004 to August 2004IBM Global Consulting Services- Senior Consultant October 2002 to March 2004PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting LLP - Consultant August 1999 to October 2002 Gardiner, Kamya & Associates, P.C - Senior Audit Associate July 1997 to August 1999COMPUTER SKILLSMS Excel, MS Word, MS Access, MS Power-point, Lindo, SPSS, Expert Choice, MS Project, MS Visio, IDEA, Oracle Suite, DELTEK and QuickBooks |
