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London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Risk and Controls lead for technology transformation program and migration to Cloud. Delivered risk focused strategic approach for migrating all NWM applications from the legacy data centres to Google Cloud Platform.

London, United Kingdom

Technology audit leader with 20 years experience working for Tier1 banks. Led both Application and Infrastructure Technology audit teams in EMEA and LatAm and covered wide range of banking technologies (Retail, Corporate and Investment Banking, Global Markets, Wealth and Enterprise Control Functions). Instrumental in driving core technology audit strategy and key IT change initiatives strategy. Managing senior stakeholder relationships including senior bank executives, external audit and regulators. Responsible for staff in multiple locations. Delivering Automation training, tools and strategies for all audit teams in the region.

London, United Kingdom

In EMEA, responsible for audit coverage of Technology Infrastructure (Data Centers, Command Centers, Networks, Distributed Servers, Databases, Information Security, Business Continuity), Global Information Security and support groups including Finance, Legal and Compliance, Business Continuity and Recovery. Created a three year audit plan aligned to business functions taking into account previous audit results, issues and regulatory requirements. Influenced change to align regional Information Security structure to global. Fostered credible working relationships with local technology and control partners.Responsible for LatAm technology audit coverage – both core infrastructure including Data Centers, Networks, Distributed Servers, Databases, Information Security, Business Continuity and business technology across Global Markets, Corporate Banking and Global Wealth. Developed a coverage model based on technology infrastructure and critical applications concentration in those countries, and also included regulatory requirements and expectations. Presented the audit results to Country COOs and CTOs.Worked with external audit to review controls published in SAS70/SSIE16 reports. Had quarterly catch up meetings with PwC to exchange information and answer any questions regarding audit coverage and results.Prepared audit responses to Cyber Risk questionnaire requested by UK regulators. Presented analysis of direct and indirect impacted audits, their scope and results. Also presented analysis of open issues and issue trending between February and June 2014 with no observations raised by the regulator.

London, United Kingdom

Joined as Senior Audit Consultant and promoted to Audit Manager within six months. Managed a regional team of 10 covering mainly applications audits across Corporate Banking, Global Markets, Global Wealth and Support Functions (Risk, Legal, Compliance, AML, BCP, HR, and Finance).Managed remediation of legacy issues including MRAs and MRIAs on international payment system GBS and validation of pricing models used in Global Markets.During the regional OCC technology exam, presented regional technology coverage model including coverage of business critical applications with no follow up questions or observations raised.Other duties included staff recruitment and training (had a largest open IT audit requisition in City in 2010), managing relationships with key technology executives and liaising with external auditors.

Montenegro

CEO for UK incorporated locally operated Property Development Company.Relocated to Montenegro to run the company.Successful delivery of medium size holiday apartments development project.Key responsibilities included capital raising, land sourcing and acquisition, liasing with city officials regarding issues relating to planning and building regulations, building contract negotiation, off-plan marketing and sales, and management of local tax liabilities.

Managing a team of eight IT auditors across two locationsResponsible for planning and delivering all IT audits in EMEAThe role covered both infrastructure and applications audits across Global Markets, Global Wealth, Corporate Banking and Card ServicesAlso responsible for delivering SOX testing for regional infrastructure and applications in scopeMember of EMEA Technology Council CommitteeOther duties include staff recruitment and training, managing audit issues validation across my team, liaising with external auditors on SOX and SAS70 work and building relationships with key technology executives

London, United Kingdom

Joined Mizuho International to setup and run the IT Audit functionOngoing duties involved defining and risk scoring the IT Audit universe, producing annual IT Audit plan and executing audits.The job was also focused on building and managing the relationships with senior management - including the CEO, CFO, COO and CIO, liaising with external and head office IT auditors.A member of IT and major projects steering committees and part of the annual Disaster Recovery Test oversight function.Designed and eveloped an Internal Audit Issues Database, used for capturing, tracking and reporting to the Audit Committee and Operational Risk Committee the issues raised by the FSA, External Audit, Head Office Audit and Internal Audit departments.

London, United Kingdom

Audit planning, executing, and issuing audit reports.Communication with senior management and following up on issues raised were also a part of my daily tasks.In addition, the job entailed liaising with external auditors, compliance and information security departments.Due to the company’s global presence and operations, I have participated and managed a number of global reviews.Key tasks included global budgeting and planning with scope definition and timing, oversight of regional fieldwork carried out by the auditors in different locations, appropriate categorisation of global and regional issues and communication of these to the appropriate level of senior management.

London, United Kingdom

Joined a team of London based IT Auditors within global investment bank.Role mainly encompassed delivering audits Additional duties included liaising with Information Security, IT department and Business Relationship Managers in order to establish sound relationship between Group Audit and these departmentsPerformed an IT Audit Support function locally by coordinating points raised from business auditors and providing advice on Group Audit views on relevant issues and communicating these to the IT Audit Support in Frankfurt

Phd, Solid State Physics

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, General, Distinction