Brian R. Morrow, Cpa Email & Phone Number

United States

Internal Audit Manager for Financial Controls, Finance, and Credit.

• 2/18 – 12/22 Rushmore Loan Management Services, LLCAssistant Vice President, Internal Audit. Direct report to the Chief Auditor with $64 billion loan servicing company. Direct audit team of three to plan and perform.
• Perform planning, review risk assessments, develop audit programs, and direct team on performance of audit projects, including process walkthroughs, detail testing, and development of issues and recommendations.
• Follow up on previously identified issues and communicate with client management regarding corrective actions taken.
• Assess financial impacts of servicing activities such as corporate and escrow advances, and review servicing disbursements for potentially fraudulent transactions utilizing Benford Analysis.
• Assist with annual audit planning and periodic audit committee reporting.
• Perform assessment of Quality Assurance and Improvement Plan (QAIP) conformance with The Institute of Internal Auditing standards.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Deliver high quality, value-added assurance to clients with respect to SOX, risk management, and internal controls. Use COSO. Provide consulting services to clients in financial services, retail, and manufacturing.
• Evaluate key internal accounting controls by preparing and analyzing flowcharts and process narratives, Risk Controls Matrices (RCMs) and test for compliance with RCMs. Clients with international exposure/subsidiaries..
• Maintain client focus to understand client needs to drive client satisfaction.
• Clients with up to $1B in revenue and assets.

Provide project and temporary engagements for Robert Half / Protiviti, Resources Global, and Cohen Financial Services, in financial services, regulatory compliance, accounting procedures, and internal controls implementation. Engagements include clients in public accounting, internal audit (including annual testing for Big 4 external auditors and SOX.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Providing project and temporary engagements for clients in financial services.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Leader of Bank Account Control Unit. Directed the claim process to recapture unclaimed property totaling $4.8 million with over $750k in receipts to date.

• $37 billion bank holding company and $100 billion servicing and Top 10 origination mortgage banking subsidiary. Direct report to the Chief Auditor. Perform annual risk assessments and develop risk-based audit plans for.
• Direct audits of areas listed above, including planning, fieldwork, reporting, and follow up.
• Direct required audits in accordance with Uniform Servicing Attest Procedures (USAP), Reg AB, and HUD requirements.
• Assess accounting and ICFR controls and direct testing of applicable SOX controls, evaluate overall compliance.
• Prepare reports for executive management and contribute to audit committee reporting as appropriate.
• Implement Auto Audit (audit management system). Database tools for data mining and analytics.