Mark Freeman Email & Phone Number

Pella, IA, US

Houston, Texas, US

Partner with the business leaders, board and key stakeholders to review key risk for new Internal Audit department. Responsible for audit life cycle such as project management, education, reporting, and developing the audit universe.

• Lead and developed a diverse team that was responsible over SAP B1 system, process improvement, internal audit, R&D tax credit management, safety, and fleet management. Projects included item master data re-alignment.
• Developed template for product rollout that aligned engineering, operations, back office, and marketing.
• Automated controls over price and discount to prevent unauthorized sales.
• Reduce R&D tax credit recognition from six months to one month by aligning engineering and accounting.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Build relationship with management to collaborate towards solutions that will address root cause. Responsibilities include leading audit team, creating, executing audit, communicating and reporting. IT Audit projects.
• Identifying opportunity to improve access control that affected the entire enterprise.
• Identified significant governance issues in the data warehouse environment.
• Noted process improvement to ensure compliance with SOX ITGC.

Irving, TX, US

• Responsible for all SOX, security, and operational audits related to IT. Assist in the creation of streamlined audit reports for management and audit committee as well as assisted in the department’s transition to.
• Identified significant and numerous opportunities to improve to the network security, disaster recovery plans, and operational management of key IT systems.
• Identified losses over a hundred thousands dollars related to unauthorized incentive program.
• Identified inventory accounting practices that were significantly different from public disclosures.

Houston, TX, US

• Develop audit objectives, scope, and test for audit projects. Lead team assigned to projects and aid in the development of team members. Create audit metric reports for management and Audit Committee to review..
• Identify platinum losses in manufacturing process resulting in two million dollar cost savings.
• Discovered one million dollars of past due invoices that were not in the collection process.
• Lead several fraud investigations that lead to criminal prosecution or recovery from vendors.

Corpus Christi, Texas, US

Create and execute audit plans and risk assessments. Manage one person Audit Shop. Present audit reports to the Audit Committee, Board of Directors, and all levels of management. Assisted the Audit Committee on the selection of external auditors and was the liaisons between external third party auditors or federal examiners.

Managed small network of four servers and seven users on a LAN and WAN network. Developed Excel scripts that help reduce the amount of time needed to complete financial reports and accounts payable process. Responsible for identifying key Y2K gaps concerning the IT systems and follwing up with 3rd parties readiness.