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Spartanburg, South Carolina

• Manages risk management and audit department for multi-national loan installment lending company.• Designed overall strategy and procedures for risk management, internal control, and auditing practices.• Developed and maintains risk assessments of key process areas.• Oversees performance of risk-based compliance audits on branch operations, fraud investigations, SOX financial audits, and other performance audits.• Implemented and maintains fraud prevention program and hotline monitoring.• Recruits and performs ongoing training and supervision of audit staff, including establishment of ongoing career development and training programs.• Designed and maintains data analytical methods to detect compliance and process vulnerabilities and fraud, which facilitates audit sampling.• Created reporting processes to inform stakeholders on key risk and compliance weaknesses, and areas of policy and procedure improvement or remediation activities.• Delivers routine reporting to Board of Directors on audit plans, activities performed, and results.• Collaborates with organizational department leaders to develop relationships, and to provide advice and guidance on compliance practices and process improvements.• Reviews policies and procedures, and suggests updates to address risk and internal control vulnerabilities.• Assists in facilitation of external audit activities from regulators.• Maintains department budget.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Established Office of Internal Audit Services.• Directed completion of annual risk assessment and audit plan, and performance of audits and investigations.• Recruited, developed, and managed audit team by providing training and technical oversight.• Developed and maintained policies, procedures, and processes for performing risk management and internal audit activities.• Coordinated external audit activities.• Developed and maintained relationships with organizational departments and with external auditors.• Oversaw budget for office by determining and setting priorities.

Washington D.C. Metro Area; Greenville, Sc

• Served as an advisor to clients in risk management and internal audit functions.• Advised and assisted various types of organizations and industries, including, financial services, mortgage, healthcare, inventory and logistics, energy, environmental, medical, defense, and security industries, and federal and state governments.• Assisted organizations in developing and executing overall strategy for risk management and internal audit functions, including ERM, SOX financial compliance, vendor risk, fraud risk, and operational process and performance audits.• Designed effective risk cultures and control environments.• Developed risk management, internal audit function, and internal control guidance and processes.• Developed and maintained project plans, budgets, schedules, and audit plans to identify activities required to conduct risk and internal control assessments.• Recruited, trained, and supervised staff to complete risk assessments and internal audits, including for multiple projects concurrently.• Developed and instructed risk assessment and internal control trainings.• Developed and presented risk management and internal control reports to internal and external stakeholders.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conducted performance and compliance audits.• Developed policies and procedures for operational and financial processes.• Performed process walkthroughs with key process personnel to document process narratives and flowcharts and to identify risks and internal controls in processes.• Assessed design and operational effectiveness of internal controls.• Produced risk taxonomies, risk registers, and risk control matrices of risks and internal controls.• Performed root cause analysis to determine source of gaps and deficiencies.• Developed recommendations and corrective action plans to correct risk and internal control gaps and deficiencies.• Assessed and validated corrective actions taken to improve processes.• Maintained work papers in accordance with standards.