Leadership: Lead the company’s Global Internal Audit organization through the planning, execution, and monitoring of internal audits.Reporting: Prepare and present regular updates on the state of internal risk and controls to the Board of Directors, Audit Committee, and Management. Risk: Coordinate the planning, execution, and reporting for the company’s global Enterprise Risk Assessment across more than 150 legal entities and divisions and 65 countries. Planning: Lead the planning and approval of the global risk-based internal audit plan, including SOX, financial reporting, regulatory, information technology, cybersecurity, and operational risk audits. Execution: Coordinate the planning and execution of global SOX, SOC, and statutory audits with external audit firms. Provide support to local accounting, finance, and compliance personnel during external statutory and regulatory audits. Strategy: Oversee the assessment and integration of acquisitions into the risk assessment and internal controls environment. Issue Management: Collaborate with senior management to ensure the effective remediation of identified control gaps and mitigation of operational and financial risks. Coaching: Manage the recruiting, training, and development of more than 20 global internal audit resources across six locations.Resource Management: Prepare and manage the annual Internal Audit budget including, resource requirements, travel expenses and external audit pricing proposals.

-Lead the planning and execution of all IT Operational, Compliance and General Control audits across all global entities. -Lead the planning, execution and reporting of the IT risk assessment as well as the development and execution of the annual IT audit plan.-Evaluate and communicate individual testing conclusions, identify mitigating controls and assess the impact of identified findings relative to the unique risks and objectives of each engagement.-Manage the relationship with external auditors and regulators, vendors and business partners.

-Led the planning and implementation of projects to design and assess Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) processes in preparation for COSO 2013 and SOX Compliance.-Managed the relationship with our external audit and compliance organizations including the execution and reporting of identified findings.-Performed the planning and execution of operational and compliance audits across multiple business units and divisions.

Led the planning and execution of both domestic and international Business Process and IT Controls and Compliance engagements in support of internal and external financial statement assurance engagements. My daily job responsibilities included the management of client relationships with a focus on leading engagement teams in the identification, evaluation and testing of controls with a focus on managing costs and adding value. Additional job responsibilities included the following:- Evaluated and communicated individual testing conclusions, identify mitigating controls and assess the impact of identified findings relative to the unique risks and objectives of each engagement.- Developed reports and other deliverables to communicate findings with executive leadership and other relevant external agencies.- Led the planning and implementation of projects to design and assess Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) processes in preparation for SOX, JSOX and IFRS readiness.

- Developed and executed the Information Technology Risk Assessment.- Conducted executive level interviews and assisted with the development of the annual IT audit plan.- Partnered with the IT Governance organization to identify and evaluate risk mitigation strategies.- Provide performance, coaching and development feedback to audit staff.- Lead the planning, execution, review and reporting for operational and compliance audits in the areas of logical access, IT operations, data management, disaster recovery, contract management, legal and SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system administration.- Assist with the development and implementation of department audit processes and TeamMate audit software deployment and integration.- Created and provided department training on Information Technology standards, processes and risks.

I was responsible for the planning and execution of SOX and operational audits. This included the identification and testing of risks and controls and reporting results to management. I was also responsible for reviewing workpapers, providing feedback to team members and working with audit clients to improve their processes.