Craig Pollard Email & Phone Number

New York, US

Owings Mills, Maryland, US

• Performed Internal Audit services for a first time through SOX engagement
• Assessed and tested process and IT controls for a large-scale data analytics organization
• Prepared and reviewed vendor risk assessments for a client’s risk management function
• Prepared SOD analysis and testing for SOX relevant financial systems
• Planned and managed a large portion of a significant IT SOX engagement
• Wrote IT Policies for a newly publicly traded client

• Led and developed a team of 30+ functional implementation consultants
• Instrumental in growing the Supply Management practice by 40% in 2 ½ years
• Developed enablement processes to facilitate the rapid development of new consultants
• Increased team utilization by over 10% year over year
• Improved staffing process to dramatically reduce write offs and increase client satisfaction
• Interviewed, hired and onboarded new employees with <5% turnover

• Built supply management configuration for a complex healthcare system
• Built repeatable process to load and validate client data from v9 to CSF
• Extracted, transformed and loaded data from v9 format to v11 (CSF)
• Wrote custom test scripts and performed testing to ensure accurate transaction processing
• Managed end-user security

• Managed and executed a variety of GRC / Continuous Controls Monitoring implementations including security monitoring, segregation of duties, transaction monitoring, configuration monitoring, fraud detection and user.
• Certified as an Infor Project Manager
• Trained hundreds of users on how to successfully implement, deploy and operationalize the full line of Infor GRC products for Lawson, SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft
• Performed numerous product deployment assessments for existing clients benchmarking their processes against leading practices
• Managed and executed controls design / testing efforts for customers preparing to go live on SAP
• Wrote complex rules to test compliance with security, configuration and process controls

• Sourced leads, sold and executed SAP security and controls design projects
• Served as the PMO Internal Controls Lead for an SAP implementation reporting directly to the CFO
• Designed and tested SAP security and configuration controls through rigorous data analysis

Worldwide, OO

• Performed SOX, SOC, and HIPAA compliance assessments for numerous Fortune 1000 clients
• Scoped and managed a wide variety of consulting and information technology audit projects
• Performed network, OS and application security testing against a wide variety of technologies
• Instructed numerous internal and client facing training sessions including Auditing SAP, SAP Security Concepts, Sarbanes Oxley controls testing and engagement management
• Performed automated controls testing through data analytics tools
• Played a large role in recruiting, hiring and developing a team growing from 2 consultants to 30 in a three-year span with less than a 5% turnover ratio

San Francisco, CA, US

• Conducted IT and business process controls testing to support the audits of numerous global firms
• Performed extensive data analytics projects to detect fraud and processing errors
• Conducted training on data analytic tools / techniques

Master Of Science - Ms, Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree