Brett Hare, Cpa Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Brussels, Belgium

Team Leadership │ Board Advisor │ Quality Assurance │ International Standards │ Strategic PlanningOversaw and developed the financial and compliance audit function, which represented nearly 90% of NATO’s independent, external audit organization’s human resource utilization. Led and managed team of 19 international auditors auditing 60 NATO or NATO-related entities with multi-billion euro total annual expenditures located in 15 different countries, including Afghanistan. Reported to the Board. Reviewed audit work for quality assurance and compliance with International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions (ISSAIs) and financial statements for compliance with International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS), based on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).Executive Level PartnershipsPartnered with the Board in the development and management of IBAN’s Strategic Plan and Annual Work Plan.Operational EfficiencyStrengthened IBAN’s overall effectiveness and efficiency, as an agent for improvement and accountability, successfully initiating and managing significant improvements through new risk-based financial audit manual, working methods, focused management, and electronic audit files, using TeamMate audit software.Team BuildingCreated six new performance auditor positions from within existing resources, emerging from increased efficiencies in financial and compliance audits.Process ImprovementDesigned improvements to ensure more thorough business/governance understanding, enterprise risk management and internal control assessments.Governance and Risk ManagementIssued approximately 40 financial and compliance audit opinions each year, resulting in an average of 10 (25%) modified opinions and recommendations to strengthen NATO’s governance, risk management and internal controls.Cross-functional AuditsGained broad experience auditing NATO’s diverse and complex activities.

Brussels, Belgium

Operational Planning │ Global Leadership │ Report Generation │ Communications │ AdvisorFollowing significant security clearance process, returned to Brussels as a NATO auditor, performing financial, compliance and infrastructure audits, on location, across NATO in 10 different countries. Planned and supervised day-to-day audit activities, wrote audit reports with detailed observations and recommendations, and presented results to the Board Members and senior NATO, military and government officials. Audits performed in both Oracle and SAP environments.Internal Control AuditsDiscovered and reported material internal control weaknesses at NATO’s military commands.Senior ManagementSuccessfully competed for Agency Senior Auditor position, a Director level position, after less than three years at IBAN.

Minneapolis, Mn/Brussels, Belgium

Audit Manager, Minneapolis, MN, 2002 – 2003Audit Senior, Brussels, Belgium, 2000 – 2002Recruited out of college as a staff auditor and progressed rapidly to senior auditor and culminating in audit management position. Returned to US office, following two years within the Global Development Program in Brussels for one of the “Big Four” accounting organizations. Gained extensive experience and expertise in US GAAP accounting and auditing across multiple industries and countries, leading audits of private and publicly traded companies of all sizes, and advising on SEC and merger related filings.Joint VenturesAs Audit Manager in the US, provided accounting advice to a development stage joint venture of two large US multinationals as they transitioned into commercial production.Global Team LeadershipAs Audit Senior in Brussels, supervised international teams on audits of European subsidiaries of US multinationals, including Procter & Gamble, General Motors Acceptance Corporation and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), participated in Belgian/French GAAP to US GAAP reconciliation projects, and successfully addressed complex and risky audit areas, including litigation, environmental, and restructuring reserves and financial derivatives.