Organizes and directs a weekly worship service with a team of approximately 45 musicians and audio visual technicians. Avalon Church of Christ is a non-denominational congregation with over 350 members in the Hampton Roads area.Accomplishments• Have successfully planned and lead over 400 worship services over the past eight years.• Developed a thriving network of volunteer musicians and techs that assist with service implementation each week.• Each week, develop a plan for the layout of the service, communicate to church leadership and to key volunteers, lead rehearsals, and implement the service plan during Sunday service.• Providing services for a congregation of over 350 members each week.

Provides financial improvement and audit support to assist a DoD client with achieving and sustaining audit readiness. Performs a wide variety of data gathering and analysis to identify issues and trends impeding client audit goals and objectives. Applies audit, accounting, and financial expertise in the development and implementation of corrective actions to transform the client's business environment, improving the timeliness and quality of financial information. Responsible for the development of high quality work products and client deliverables while ensuring timely completion within specified due dates. Supports project planning, task coordination, and status reporting to the project lead and interacts and communicates with client leadership.

Provides financial improvement and audit support to assist a DoD client with achieving and sustaining audit readiness. Performs a wide variety of data gathering and analysis to identify issues and trends impeding client audit goals and objectives. Applies audit, accounting, and financial expertise in the development and implementation of corrective actions to transform the client's business environment, improving the timeliness and quality of financial information. Responsible for the development of high quality work products and client deliverables while ensuring timely completion within specified due dates. Supports project planning, task coordination, and status reporting to the project lead and interacts and communicates with client leadership.- Assisted in development of Department of Navy Manager’s Internal Control Program deliverables for US Fleet Forces Command- Assisted with development of SharePoint based Internal Control Program and testing platform for client testing needs- Maintains a database of Process maps, Data Dictionaries, and SOP manuals for Department of Navy business processes in the SharePoint environment for client reference- Subject matter expert for the Military Pay, Military Permanent Change of Station, and Funds Balance with Treasury business segments- Performed team project management functions to include training execution and tracking, and compilation and submission of weekly status reports to COR for team contract.

Responsible for identifying and containing compliance risk, monitoring, reporting and certification, fostering a compliance culture, and optimizing relations with regulators. Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations and company policies across all areas of organizational responsibility.Accomplishments:- Assisted in corporate risk assessment process for domestic operations by creating a heat map of regulatory risk, based on company defined risk ratings, to the organization in order to drive testing plans.- Designed and implemented a compliance issues database and reporting structure for all issues located during compliance testing across all levels of the organization.- Based on the US model, developed and implemented a risk assessment for the company's UK business encompassing 9 different pieces of regulation under the FCA.- Implemented new testing procedures for ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Performed test work under UDAAP, FCRA, Service Provider Oversight, and OCC regulations.- Identified material enhancements to the company’s quality control process, incentive compensation program, complaint management software, proprietary collection system, and external law firm audit process.

Responsible for management of business process improvements and new functional initiatives across multiple business units and work groups. Created and maintained project plans to meet changing needs and requirements for each initiative and facilitated cross departmental meetings and status updates for each project.Accomplishments:- Managed 18 separate bank audits successfully with no material findings or issues. Banks represented include Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Target, TD Bank, Citibank, US Bank, Chase Bank, GE Capital, and Capital One, among others.- Developed a repository of company documentation that can be used in a repeatable format to respond to various audit activity from banks and regulators.- Instrumental in streamlining the seller audit process. Ability to respond in a timely manner improved by a significant margin in terms of accuracy, speed, and depth of response.- Assisted in developing Intralinks software platform for company usage that allows banks to review selected company documentation offsite and electronically onsite via iPad technology.- Provided key assistance to Compliance Department in providing support for initial CFPB examination procedures testing and compliance policy development. Assisted in development of over 20 separate corporate compliance policy documents.

Ensured compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by auditing company records and processes. Performed SOX audits for all key control areas using designed work papers and within directed timeframes.Accomplishments- Responsible for completing 100% of the SOX audit work for each calendar year for PRA Group. Key control areas of testing included Information Systems, Capital Management, Equity Administration, Human Resources, Revenues and Receivables, Financial Reporting, and Purchases and Payables.- Completed all audit activity on-time, within directed timeframes each year.- Audit work was consistently accurate and never encountered any findings or location of failures by external accounting firm KPMG.- Assisted external audit firm with any needs they had while onsite during quarterly and annual audits. Developed excellent working relationship with external audit firm KPMG.- Audited travel expenses for company directors, board members, and executives each year.- Gained a solid foundation of knowledge in GAAP, IT process controls, data security audits, and operational fraud management.- Demonstrated a strong knowledge of audit standards, audit process and procedure, testing control effectiveness, and ability to identify key risks.