Business Enhancement & Controls Manager (promoted to this post in Mar 2006)(Europe, Asia and Latin America)Performing risk assessments to structure an effective audit strategy targeting areas of key concern across all 20 affiliate offices worldwide.Formulating best practice guidelines to provide global consistency in controls management which are applied as the benchmark throughout the company.Responsible for the scheduling, supervision and review of audit work performed by team's controls analyst.Preparing and presenting audit reports to highlight control weaknesses, their potential business impact and viable solutions to mitigate risk.Leading meetings with Senior Management in each territory to discuss recommendations and persuade them to adopt process change.Advising on the embedding of key controls throughout the organization, including changes to the organization's operational systems and implementation of SAP. Collaborating with departments (e.g. Sales, Marketing, Finance, MIS and Legal) to ensure the successful implementation of control recommendations within specific deadlines: over 90% of issues remediated within 6 months. Initiating an 'early warning' dashboard of key metrics in Business Objects to proactively identify and resolve business issues as they arise.

Europe, Asia and Latin America)Devising and executing process reviews to provide assurance on the robustness of controls.Evaluating audit results to provide commercial recommendations in order to remediate specific control risks. Building strong working relationships across all staffing levels to facilitate the effectiveness of the audit and promote best practice.Mapping key business processes. Developing data mining techniques in Excel and Business Objects to identify trends and unusual items within large volumes of data.Performing SOX and FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) compliance testing.

Planning, budgeting and leading audits across a portfolio of entrepreneurial clients including an AIM listed hotel chain, insurance brokers and energy companies.Drafting financial statements and reports to clients.Fostering relationships with other departments to identify opportunities for the cross-selling of services.Training staff both through on the job mentoring and presentations to tuition groups.