Drew Mcdonald, Cfe Email & Phone Number

Trusted Risk and SOX Compliance Advisor, with demonstrated success in mitigating risks of financial and reputational loss for marketing and sales incentive programs through leadership of the quarterly compliance process. Highly experienced in documenting and testing internal controls over financial reporting (ICFRs), reviewing results, and developing recommendations as needed to ensure audit readiness. Collaborate with program management to perform business analysis for thorough risk assessment.Let me help you through quarter-end reporting for SOX. I can help your company or organization reduce the risk of loss by improving control and design of your financial processes. Examples: Business partner or supplier onboarding, SaaS contracts, inventory, incentive payments, co-marketing, and pricing. Trust but verify before the commitment of funds.I'm a natural planner and appreciate working with and, as necessary, leading a team to remain focused on goals - including those at quarter-end. I'm curious and analytical and enjoy learning about new business processes and programs.By way of recent experiences: I shared my controls and process design knowledge with business partner sales and marketing teams for twelve years of Satisfactory quarterly assessments. This included:* Driving the quarterly SOX compliance process towards completion. * Leading testers in both North America and in global Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to perform timely and accurate testing of key controls. * Collaborating with testers io ensure that remediation plans for control deficiencies met corporate risk guidelines for the SOX Section 404 management certification.* Advising the Business partner channel management team to ensure that business partner sales incentive programs met SOX risk parameters/control points, corporate guidelines, and were 100% audit-ready.Earlier in my career, I was the Assistant Treasurer at Donnelley Marketing where I led cash management, cash flow forecasting and credit agreement administration as part of private equity ownership structure.

Listed skills include Finance, Sarbanes Oxley Act, Auditing, Process Improvement, and 15 others.