Internal Audit Manager
CurrentLed multiple teams in the planning, testing, and reporting of audits on financial, operational, and compliance processes, simultaneously in a geographically diverse landscape including Tulsa, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Houston, Calgary, as well as Dublin, Ireland; London, England and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.Executed risk based audits reports in accordance with COSO Internal Control - Integrated Framework. Delivered high quality internal audit reports and effectively communicated findings and their impact on the company to all levels of management. Evaluated company risk, developed an audit universe, prioritized risk areas and began development of rotational audit plans for an IFRS registrant focused in upstream exploration and production, trading and retail power and gas. Performed enterprise-wide risk assessments and provided guidance in the establishment of effective monitoring.Participated in special projects to provide transparency between the company’s risk management process and the validation of the company’s internal controls by mapping the organization process-level controls to enterprise level risks.Served as the North American internal audit repository application’s systems administrator and primary new employee methodology training facilitator.Acted as a coach/mentor to new and less experienced staff by providing direction and feedback on how to plan their audits and what key stakeholders to engage, how to set-up their testing templates, how to follow-up on testing errors and identify an exception; how to perform a root cause analysis and capture the real issue, and how to document in a report and effectively communicate a finding to Management.
