Responsibilities include independent and team activities supporting the company's SOX 404 compliance, internal audit activities, and advisory activities.•Document, assess and test the effectiveness of key SOX 404 & SOC controls and provide recommendations for process improvements.•Develop audit plans and perform internal audit projects independently or as part of an audit team.•Perform advisory activities, either independently or as a team, including recommendation of process improvements.•Perform data analytic procedures utilizing big data to identify trends and relationships which could be indicative of fraud or non-compliance with corporate policies.

•Member of audit team that provided audit services to not-for-profit entities with budgets as large as $92 million, non-public entities with revenues as much as $253 million and A-133 audits with federal expenditures as great as $188 million.•Working at a mid-size firm has allowed me to engage in many aspects of an audit like test of controls and walkthroughs, cash, A/R, A/P, debt, revenue and expenses and inventory observations and testing.

•Monitor transactions on sponsored research awards to ensure compliance with government standards including OMB Circulars A-21 and A-133 using Microsoft Access and Excel.•Effectively communicate with internal departments to generate Federal Financial Reports for the government.•Created Business Object reports to provide specific, accurate data for reviewing financial information.•Prepare and reconcile letter of credit draws and cash reconciliation for all Medical Center Federal Grants.

•Communicate with internal departments and external sponsors regarding grant agreements and prepare financial reports, invoices, and journal entries for grant accounts using Excel, FRS, Cognos, Coeus and, OnBase. •One of two to be tapped by the manager to train new hires. Tailored the training to match each individual’s assigned responsibilities. •Selected by the assistant controller to develop and implement a departmental best practices training program. Created an electronic manual from the training materials and submitted it for final adoption and wider implementation.