Director, Audit & Control Dept.
Greater New York City Area
Director, Audit & Control Department Managed all phases of audits for Operating Company offices of this $12 B revenue, Fortune 500 Company, including risk analysis for IT and financial aspects, audit reports, review of findings, scheduling and timing. Served as departmental liaison with Deloitte & Touche, external auditors, and with Oliver Wyman, one of the operating companies. Supervised audit team for D&T financial audits and SOX work to reduce costs of the external audit, including COSO compliance for IT and financial internal controls. Used the CobIT methodology.• As liaison to Deloitte, managed testing the database of 7 million transactions for the annual audit using IDEA software to verify and prove out the database. This improved audit effectiveness and reduced costs of the outside audit. • Performed forensic audit of the MMC broker – dealer, including the IT audit. • Managed audit teams for insurance broker offices, covering P&C, D&O, general liability, controls over client files. • Trained staff in advanced Excel use, and IDEA and other audit software tools, improving staff skills levels. Kroll Inc., a Marsh & McLennan Subsidiary Director of Internal Audit Started up the Internal Audit function for this multinational $600m risk consulting firm. Responsible for all aspects of audit including risk analysis for IT and financial aspects of the annual audit plan.• Sarbanes – Oxley Steering Committee member along with Senior Corporate Management. • Managed the SOX implementation, as SOX PMO Manager. COSO compliance team leader. Team size: 20+.