As an Internal Audit Manager at Equiniti, I lead critical audits across our North American operations, ensuring robust risk management and operational excellence. My role involves overseeing both domestic and international audit teams, managing multiple audits simultaneously, and driving key departmental initiatives.Key Responsibilities and Achievements:Audit Leadership: Spearheaded audits over vital areas such as proxy services, cybersecurity, capital raising events, and enterprise risk management.Team Oversight: Supervised and mentored both domestic and international audit team members, enhancing efficiency and communication across teams.Process Improvements: Implemented process efficiencies that streamlined communication with auditees and provided better visibility into audit statuses, resulting in more effective audit management.Audit Outcomes: Led audits that resulted in the implementation of additional cybersecurity controls across the enterprise, improved data quality for various business units, and established both internal and external SLAs.Quality Assurance and Compliance: Managed the self-assessment component of our Quality Assurance and Improvement Program (QAIP), ensuring alignment with our audit methodology.Business Continuity Planning: Ensured that the internal audit departmental BCP plan aligns with corporate initiatives and IT best practices, overseeing the entire planning and review process.

Conducted internal audits of Freddie Mac's operations ensuring the control framework is operating properly to foster Freddie Mac's mission of bringing liquidity, stability, and affordability to the US housing market. As a member of the capital markets & finance team within the internal audit department, delivered audits over finance-centric corporate entities such as Derivative and Hedge Accounting, Securitization, and Loan Loss Reserving for a portfolio of over $3 Trillion in assets.

Led internal audits across a broad range of processes to provide assurance around effective operation of the control framework, mitigate risk, and deliver consultative advice on how to improve operational effectiveness in accordance with organizational goals. Spearheaded organizational Model Audit Rule (industry equivalent to SOX) testing for key financial controls.

Served clients in the financial services and national defense space conducting cybersecurity, IT audit, and operational audit work. Also participated in firm development activities that involved improving company culture, analyzing data, and expanding business operations.

Managed the Amazon Brand Ambassador program on 4 campuses, overseeing and evaluating the marketing efforts they conducted. This involved spearheading company sponsored events that attracted the college demographic to promote Amazon.

Created deliverables related to an anti-money laundering investigation for a major federal client through conducting in-depth research.

Launched interactive campaigns to promote the Ubisoft brand and products on the University of Maryland campus through a variety of methods including tabling, chalking, and social media outreach.

Worked in a variety of different areas to build financial skills including financial analysis, identification and assessment of risks and controls, business process re-design, project management, and preparation of internal and external financial reports.

Engaged students on University of Maryland campus to raise awareness for the Windows brand and other Microsoft products in order to meet goal of conducting 45 hands-on, peer-to-peer trials each week of the program and documenting these trials through an online survey.

Planned and executed high-ROI sponsorship opportunities on campus in order to effectively promote the ASUS brand to University of Maryland students, while attending monthly online team meetings to discuss challenges and opportunities

Responsible for driving awareness, engagement, and excitement for Spotify within the University of Maryland community through strategic partnerships, sponsored events, and word-of-mouth

Set up various events, communicated with attendees, and served food to private clients in an extremely fast-paced environment in order to ensure excellent customer relations.

Served as a business analyst for a cross-functional team in order to deliver a mobile wealth management platform for financial advisors and address client concerns in order to adhere to the highest quality standards

Instructed groups of various skill levels on the fundamentals of snowboarding while collaborating with a team of fellow instructors to execute the most effective lesson plan