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Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Managed FP&A projects to address areas needing improvement. Helped manage activities for the monthly and quarterly close including preparation and review of monthly/quarterly/annual executive and BOD reporting.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Operational, Risk, Control and Project Executive responsible for implementing and overseeing $25 million external NPWT business partnership for 7 years, Project Director for enterprise strategic projects, and lead the Commercial project team. • Awarded 2019 Joerns Purple Shirt Award for developing effective teams to address strategic company issues.• Identified process issues and risks, developed mitigation strategies, created business cases, obtained executive approval, implemented solutions, defined, and executed testing/validation, and monitored performance. Business Partnershipo Implemented and managed the new business partnership including IT, processes, and controls. o Strategic and day-to-day management of operational, IT and financial performance including inventory, field operations, sales, marketing, financial performance, billing, procurement, and AP.o Conversion of 1000+ customers to new clinical solution complying with regulatory requirements.o Communicated to executives, BOD, and business partner performance, status, and financial results.Selected Strategic Projects:o Program Director of the CTC Program 3 projects, 30 concurrent workstreams, and 40 team members to enable scalable and efficient Contract to Cash processes and deliver $12 million EBITDA growth, stronger controls, and improved customer experience. o Implemented field operations and dispatch system which improved SLA performance by 15%, reduced field operations costs by 20% and improved compliance.

Internal Audit Chief Audit Executive reporting to the CFO and Audit Committee and responsible for Internal Audit.• Implemented Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework and facilitated Risk Committee. • Owned SOX compliance, attestations, and financial statement assertions, and execution including process and control documentation, business process walkthroughs, control evaluation, and internal testing. • Prepared BOD quarterly reports summarizing emerging risks, audit reports, audit issues, and audit plan status.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

CAE of Internal Audit reporting to the CFO and Audit Committee. Responsible for: • Founded the Internal Audit Department and established the department scope, charter, and operations manual. Successfully passed both Internal and External Quality Assessment Review (QAR).• Performed audits, compliance/regulatory projects, and special projects to evaluate internal controls, enhance operations, cut costs, increase revenues, and add value to the organization. • Made recommendations and conducted projects to improve processes/operations, systems, organizational structures, controls, and policies to improve profits, cut costs, strengthen controls, or increase efficiencies. • Responsible for corporate compliance and fraud investigations.• Responsible for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and conducted an annual risk assessment, then worked with management to create annual risk-based Audit/project plan to address the most significant risks to the organization. • Provided legal assistance to the General Counsel. • Prepared quarterly reports for the Board of Directors summarizing emerging risks, reports issued for the quarter, outstanding audit issues, and the status of the project plan.• Received President's Award for improving operations.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Emerging Risk - Developed approaches for large, complex enterprise-wide emerging risk areas.• Integrated Auditing - Defined Audit’s approach for testing of IT application controls during business audits. Developed training strategy; built and delivered 2 day training. Resp. for integrated audit testing on 130 audits annually across six audit teams.• IT - Led 40,000 hour project (75 FTEs) to validate implementation of infrastructure security controls. • Project implementation - Assessed project management and internal controls for large enterprise-wide implementation projects including merger and divestiture activities. • Off shoring - As firm built off shoring methodology, participated on project team to ensure key controls were included.• Basel - Defined initial 3 year audit strategy. Led cross-team audit effort to assess implementation project and compliance with regulatory requirements. Coordinated with peer banks on industry practices.

Gb

• Responsible for three global Sarbanes-Oxley projects and two internal audit co-sourcing projects which totalled $3 million per year (approximately 80 audit projects across 10 countries)• Performed Internal Audit co-sourcing/outsourcing services - Performed annual Internal Audit risk assessments and then defined, developed and supervised audit projects• National leader for a $ 3 million e-business Customer Relationship Management firm initiative that defined and coordinated multi-disciplinary services ot provide an integrated solution set to clients. Defined the firms strategy, methodology and services. Developed business plan, budget, resources/staffing, and practice aids.

Gb

Assisted clients undergoing significant change to streamline operations, implement appropriate control environments, reduce costs & implementation risk, and minimize organizational disruption. Performed services for Sr Mgmt, project implementation teams, and IA departments. Major focus was during implementation of ERP applications (SAP) and e-business applications (e.g. Siebel, CRM).• Helped IA Depts reassess annual audit plans and conduct certain audits before, during or after implementation• Led fraud investigation for the Board of a company using SAP that resulted in the dismissal and prosecution of several members of senior management and the accounting department• Provided performance improvement for financial close processes• On-site ERP internal controls project lead for a $15 million SAP project (designed security and controls)• Evaluated complex distributed change management processes and develop new strategies to reduce costs and time-to-market of new products

Gb

Senior in the Global Risk Management Solutions Practice in Chicago, IL. Performed external audits, internal audits, and consulting services for clients within the following industries: consumer products, industrial products, retail, home building, oil and gas, technology, and entertainment • Wrote firm's initial Year 2000 methodology used to provide year 2000 readiness assessments• Primary project leader for implementation of enterprise-wide applications. Lead client and IT consultants during the implementation of GL, job costing, subcontract management, order processing, purchasing, AP, AR, fixed assets, and sales modules.• Performed internal audit co-sourcing assessments of financial reporting, product costing, revenue, invetnory, accounts payable, purchasing and security.• Performed process improvement and cost reduction services.• Member of the core group that wrote the firm's methodologies and tools for assessing and implementing internal controls within SAP.

Staff auditor within the Computer Risk Management practice in Philadelphia, PA. Performed external audit and consulting services which included SAS 70 services, application control reviews, pre-implementation reviews, general controls reviews, system software selection, information security reviews including threat and vulnerability assessments.

Chicago, Il, Us

Performed tax and audit services at the Whitewater, WI location during school year while attending college.

Chicago , Il , Us

Intern for 4 summers. Claim Adjuster for workmen's compensation, Investment Representative, Insurance Internal Auditor, and Kemper Financial Internal Auditor.