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Metro Manila, Philippines

Philippines

• Leads end-to-end SSAE 18 and ISAE 3402 engagements focusing on banking and custody services. This includes presentation of project status updates to managers and senior managers and closely monitoring key milestones of.
• Leads sample selection reviews and automation efforts to minimize manual work and reselects.
• Organizes annual walkthroughs and document any changes to the internal control framework.
• Reviews documentations prepared / initially reviewed by staff and provides comments for improvement to allow staff to improve the quality of their work papers.
• Reviews compliance to regulatory requirements of De Nederlandsche Bank in relation to its Deposit Guarantee Scheme, particularly in the submission of Single Customer View (IKB) file.
• Identifies risk issues in relation to the controls testing performed and escalates relevant matters identified in the review process to managers and senior managers for internal discussions.

Philippines

• Executes significant project tasks such as annual walkthroughs and confirmations to understand the front, middle and back-office processes the organization’s banking, depositary, and custody division, and documents any.
• Executes reviews of ICFR in accordance with SSAE 18 for various process and timely completes corresponding work papers for documentation. Processes include real asset fund accounting, financial statements preparation.
• Performs initial reviews of ITGCs such as logical access to client applications and incident monitoring.
• Collaborates with the business units to gather sufficient and appropriate evidence of control performance through inspection of documents, inquiry, recalculation, reperformance and analysis, as deemed appropriate.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the processes by proactively challenging prior period documentation and asking relevant questions to further understand any observation identified in relation to the review of controls.
• Communicates issues or observations to managers and senior managers for internal discussions and independently analyzes these issues to formulate recommendations for process improvement.

Makati City, Philippines

• Two (2) peak season experience of handling audit engagements for organizations in the financial services industry within strict timelines (i.e., a global investment bank, asset management company, technology financing.
• Led planning of audit engagements with limited guidance from seniors, managers and engagement partner which includes identifying materiality, audit approach and scope of audit, among others.
• Independently performed process walkthroughs with clients and completed detailed walkthrough documentation. Identified potential risks in significant classes of transactions and completed control matrices used in.
• Performed tests of controls and substantive audit procedures, with the aid of auditing tools and data analytics applications, in accordance with EY GAM and independently completed working papers by gathering sufficient.
• Provided training, coaching and supervision to newly onboarded staff in conducting audit tasks and procedures.

Makati City, Philippines

• Briefly assisted the audit team in performing audit procedures on the IT General Controls of an insurance company such as business continuity plan testing and manual user access control review;
• Attended ITGC and Governance trainings;
• Prepared a systems flowchart (Data Flow Diagram) based on the narratives prepared by the team for a Data Privacy Act compliance review engagement.

Tasks include:* Assisting employees in their queries regarding loans and other benefits* Organizing documents to be released/filed* Checking for missing and irrelevant documents in order to update existing database of documents filed* Classifying minutes of meeting according to their proper categories* Creating an excel file for the monitoring of documents.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accountancy

Activities and Societies: University of Santo Tomas-Junior Philippine Institute of Accountants (UST JPIA), Pax Romana Accountancy Unit.

High School, 93.25

Activities and Societies: Unified School ChoirConsistent honor student from first year to fourth year President of the Unified School.