Beverly Pendowski Email & Phone Number

Elk Grove Village, Il, Us

In the Chicago office, Beverly has managed and performed Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance financial and IT testing over areas including:Revenue/ Receivables, Inventory, Purchasing/Payables, Payroll, Financial Reporting, Treasury, Capital Assets, Access Controls, Change Management, Computer Operations and Entity Level controls. She has managed and performed Internal Audits over areas including: Year-end Financial Schedule Review, Employee Acquisition and Termination Practices, Change Management, Royalties, Accounts Payable, Cash Receipts, Wire Transfer, Building Management, Inventory Cycle Count, and Political Action Committee Donations and Contributions, IT Application and ITGC reviews. In the Honolulu office, her primary responsibility was Internal Audit co-sourcing for a local bank, performing audits of the bank’s ACH Operations, Item Processing, Metavante Support, Cash Management Products, Residential, Consumer and Commercial Lending, Customer Service and Fair Lending Compliance. Beverly reviewed functionality on their Metavante, MortgageServ and Unifi systems, and performed User Access reviews.

As an Audit Consultant, Beverly managed and performed ITGC audit contract work for a big 4 accounting firm in both Chicago and Honolulu. Her responsibilities included identification of key controls and gaps, designing test plans, testing key controls, and report writing. She also supervised, trained and reviewed the workpapers of other consultants/junior audit team members. She also performed bookkeeping for a privately-held realtor and managed the operations and bookkeeping of her church's daycare center.

Beverly sub-contracted ITGC audit work to SRS as part of Pendowski Consulting. Please see Pendowski Consulting.

As a Bank Operations Policy Senior Manager for Discover Bank’s Deposit Products, Beverly wrote policies, procedures and training materials; monitored the customer call center; and ensured compliance with federal/state bank regulations. She also wrote policies for banking and credit card support operations such as ACH and check clearing, and managed projects addressing business/regulatory requirements, such as ACH return automation, ACH pay-by-phone, Patriot Act and SCRA.

As a Y2K Coordinator, Beverly managed Y2K compliance activities for the Cardmember Services Division (CSD). Communicated directives from headquarters Y2K management to 10 Y2K coordinators at 5 operations centers by conducting weekly conference calls and visiting centers. Collaboratively worked to ensure all operations processes and their software/hardware were prioritized by criticality, documented, replaced if necessary, and successfully tested. Met quarterly with CSD Senior and Executive Vice Presidents to provide status updates and progress reports of Y2K preparedness. At the 1999 to 2000 year change, manned the headquarters Y2K Command Center as Communications Liaison. Received a President’s Plate for successful accomplishment of Y2K efforts.