Adarsh Hegde Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Spring, Texas Area

• Oversee all aspects of the IT compliance program, including audit and issues tracking, legal compliance, customer/vendor compliance, SOX compliance, and other regulatory compliance support.• Led risk management efforts, overseeing identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks across multiple business functions. • Developed and implemented comprehensive GRC frameworks per COBIT and NIST guidelines, ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulatory requirements.• Manage a team of compliance professionals (50+) responsible for conducting audits, assessing risks, and implementing controls to mitigate compliance-related issues.• Lead and monitor to successfully close material weaknesses and significant deficiencies in IT General Controls (ITGCs).• Lead the IT Policy management group to ensure appropriate IT Organizational policies are created and maintained in alignment with industry standards.• Coordinate internal and external audits, ensuring timely responses to audit findings and the implementation of corrective actions.• Provide guidance and support to business units on compliance matters, including customer and vendor contract negotiations, data privacy, and information security.• Collaborated with legal counsel to interpret and apply relevant laws and regulations to business operations.• Received "CIO Award", "GRC Implementor Award" and "Wow Award" by HP's management.

Houston, Texas Area

Global Lead for IT Compliance and Risk team for HP’s CIO Management.Responsible for managing IT compliance and risk areas. Acting as a Finance Leadership Board (FLB) delegate for Internal Audit division to help scope, manage and follow up audits scheduled globally by HP Internal Auditors (Project based out of USA). Project involves- Working closely with Finance and IT stakeholders for audits scheduled- Discussions of audits and issues with senior management- Preparing Risk assessments for each in scope applications and processes- Scoping of the audits and assigning resources as required from each domains- Mentoring Subject Matter Experts to prepare for audit and explain the process of audit- Closely working with internal auditors to making sure audit runs smoothly- Follow up on any audit issues and making sure leadership commitment for remediation- Drive remediation plans and make sure issue is resolved

Bangalore, India

• Part of Controls and Compliance team conducting Financial and IT audits worldwide• Part of Internal audit projects for EMEA Controllership - Assessment of the risk and impact of the issues identified on reviews and production of the report to management. Review of internal control framework under Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX 404) and providing recommendation on how to rectify the weakness, if any.• Lead for Quarterly Balance Sheet Review for HP worldwide from USA• Handled restructuring provisioning and audit for HP global from USA• Assess Financial and IT processes; identify and remediate deficiencies • Prepare and evaluate SOX 404 documents for Financial and IT processes; Audit of IT applications of HP worldwide• Lead Audit team of Global Account Reconciliation for Americas region: review of more than 45,000 accounts• Lead for inventory counts conducted on a quarterly basis involving travel to USA, Czech Republic, Germany, France and China• Conduct training on IFRS for the team to comply with global standards• Received “Recognition Award” for successful launch of team website on HP’s intranet

M/s Price Waterhouse is a 125 years Renowned Chartered Accountant Firm in India specializing in various kinds of Audits, Direct Tax Matters, Central Excise, Customs & EXIM Policy, Company Law Matters, Appeals and cases etc. and having Clientele of High Repute.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Aca, Finance

Activities and Societies: Worked with Price Waterhouse CoopersChartered Accountant

Aicwa, Costing And Audit

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Business/Commerce, General, University 5Th Rank

Management Accountant

Cisa, Information System Audits