As an Internal Audit Manager at PwC I am responsible for overseeing the budgeting, planning, execution, reporting results to senior management and communication with client process owners at multiple clients including Fortune 500 organizations. Additionally, my responsibilities include career coaching and development of multiple individuals.

While a senior associate at PwC I focused in the hospitality and real estate sectors and led audit teams of three to ten to complete Sarbanes-Oxley and internal audit testing at multiple clients. This included testing at corporate locations and over 40 individual locations. During this time I progressively took on more responsibility over our audit teams that concluded with primary responsibility over the planning, execution, results reporting results and communication with client process owners for multiple aspects of the internal audit plan.Some of my accomplishments during this time include:- Worked with a team to create a hospitality data mining program to analyze general ledger data at over 100 hotel locations- Developed a template, used for multiple clients, to analyze actual hotel P/L data versus forecast and budget, which reduced control testing time by 10% per hotel visit- Updated, improved and led a hospitality industry specific and internal audit training for 20-25 staff and client personnel

While an Associate at PwC I led and participated in SOX and internal audit testing across multiple industries and clients, worked with client management, and provided recommendations for improvement. At multiple clients I worked with process owners to document key financial processes in detailed memos.Some of my accomplishments during this time include:- Created a comprehensive location balance sheet assessment utilized at multiple locations to provide comfort over the financial statements; multiple clients subsequently added parts to their annual compliance program- Worked with a team to create an annual finance and internal audit training for fifteen staff

Worked as a part of a five person management team overseeing all aspects of accounting for the hotel. My responsibilities specifically included overseeing the accounts payable, cash, revenue and tax exempt processes and associates working in those areas. Additionally I was responsible for aspects of the month-end close, including balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, P/L analysis and tax filings.While at Marriott I:· Designed and implemented a new tracking system that reduced invoice discrepancies for a major vendor from 20% to zero· Designed a process to reduce Marriott Rewards reimbursement discrepancies by 50%