Katherine Houston Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Burbank, California, United States

Reporting to the Audit Committee and Chief Financial Officer, established the Sarbanes-Oxley program for ErosSTX Global Corporation after the merger of STX Entertainment, a privately owned company, and Eros International Plc, a NYSE listed entity, including managing the outsourced internal audit service provider.• Implemented or remediated over 150 internal controls over financial reporting within the first year of the company's merger.• Initiated a risk assessment and control rationalization process to reduce the number of key SOX controls at the legacy listed subsidiary by over 40% from prior year.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Reporting to the Chief Audit Executive, established the in-house Internal Audit functions in Burbank CA and London UK. Responsible for development and execution of global internal audit plan for the $13 Billion Warner Bros. division, as well as the direct oversight of audit teams based in Burbank and London. • Implemented a robust risk assessment methodology and application to document and evaluate financial, operational, technology and other risk factors across the company, enabling more systematic mapping of the audit plan to key risks in the business.• Oversaw development of audit programs for film and TV production, video game development, theatrical distribution, home entertainment, consumer products, IT security and FCPA compliance. • Collaborated with senior Warner Bros. finance executives during the establishment of the company’s Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program to identify key financial reporting processes, controls, and testing strategies to meet regulatory deadlines and external audit requirements. • Championed extensive use of data analytic techniques to expand audit coverage, identify anomalies, and provide insight to the business, including development of Tableau analytic dashboards later adopted by the business for ongoing monitoring. Resulted in up to 50% reductions to on-site fieldwork and related travel costs.• Developed deep relationships across the company to facilitate open and honest communication on issues identified, collaborate on appropriate remediation activities, and advise on design of controls during implementations of major systems (e.g., SAP ERP and Workday) or new business processes. • Spearheaded improvements to remediation follow up, reducing the time to report the status of open audit observations from 30 days to 5 days after each quarter end. • Hired, developed, and mentored a highly skilled and motivated team of 10-15 auditors, facilitating placement of nine audit employees into roles within Warner Bros.

Greater Los Angeles Area

As an Entertainment leader for Business Risk Services in the Pacific South West region, oversaw provision of internal audit services to filmed entertainment and music divisions of Time Warner on the West Coast and Latin America and led development of entertainment industry-related service delivery database and training for firm-wide use. Also launched new third party contract compliance and royalty audit service on behalf of major film studio and music clients.

London, United Kingdom

Managed and executed internal audits and third-party royalty audits for the International film and music divisions of Time Warner in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Department was outsourced to Ernst & Young LLP in 1998

London, United Kingdom

Supervised and performed external audits and corporate finance projects in an audit senior and manager role on various large, multi-national media and manufacturing clients at Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte (before merger with Price Waterhouse).