Employ control and authorization over the full audit department with supervisory responsibility of two audit managers.Deliver information regarding significant financial statement and operation risks identified during audits to the Audit Committee and external auditors. Generate detailed reports on the progress of SOX compliance efforts and department budget vs actual expenditure.Develop and establish SOX section 404 assessments for internal over financial statements, consisting of process narratives, control designs, and the validation of control efficacy in all financial entities.Integrate an effective whistle blower program on a global level which enables employees to report any unethical behavior or code of conduct violations.Originate and integrate a risk assessment program as a means to ascertain entities with a greater financial statement risk. Created numerous data analytics solutions for internal audit department, including Purchasing Card (P-Card) analytics which uncovered misappropriation and fraudulent activity. Designed a purchase to pay data analytics model aimed at identifying SOD, identity vendors with same bank accounts, VAT, or Tax IDs to eliminate duplication of vendors in the vendor master, and unauthorized payments to vendors. Formulated analytics and visualization of profitability categorized by product, customer, plant, and ship to location which resulted in identifying products and customers with negative margins.Lead the full audit cycle from risk assessment, scoping, fieldwork, communicating audit report to the entity being audited and to the senior management, follow-up on the management action plan against the issues/risks identified in the audit report.Provide guidance and support to the audit team through data analytics pinpointing outliers, sample selection, and even testing 100% population for a given set of testing conditions.

Spearheaded all aspects of extracting, normalizing, and visualizing data garnered from various ERP systems, such as SAP, JDE, BAAN, and IBM Legacy system using SQL and Tableau tools.Detected and assessed critical risks, gaps, and inefficiencies in the business process through a Tableau visualization tool.Designed an inventory monitor for BAAN, JDE, and SAP systems which identified slow moving inventory, inventory trends and excess by category, and user profiles for SOD checks.Initiated a record-to-report monitor for the JDE system which generated a financial statement dashboard comparing non-GAAP ledger and GAAP ledger.Tracked and evaluated JE activity, identified JE posted in blocked accounts, audited user roles with access to edit the ledger, and created payment vouchers. Created analytical methods for AP shared service audits, confirmed vendors through Vendor Master, isolated duplicate payments, and reconciled PO and invoice data.Instituted an invoice-to-cash monitoring system which assimilated data from SAP sales orders, billing, and general ledger systems. Executed comprehensive aging analysis of all receivables as well as profiled unpaid bills, adjustments, reversals, and credit memos.Utilized data obtained from PeopleSoft and the payroll processing system to identify duplicate or unauthorized payments, ghost employees, excessive overtime, and inaccurate salary rates.Employed a sustainability monitor which utilized historical EHS data to discover facilities with a high risk of injuries and instances of lost time.Devised methods for monitoring the Accounts Reconciliation process and identifying accounts not reconciled. Conducted in-depth aging analysis for the purpose of determining days to reconcile after the closing date as well as identify unreviewed reconciliations. Researched current trends to determine the reconciliation load for BU accounting and shared services teams.