Leadership of Medtronic's global SOX compliance program, including planning, scoping, testing, reviewing, and concluding on the design and effectiveness of more than 600 business process controls.Direct and provide guidelines over the SOX program testing of controls with full oversight of two international teams in Bogota and Prague.Responsible for managing and aligning on SOX strategy with external audit, control owners, managers, and executive management.

• Plan and lead audit procedures over more than 200 SOX financial controls for the Americas region (US, Canada, and LATAM). Develop risk assessments, conduct process walkthroughs, diagnose, and give managers and directors feedback regarding the Internal Control System's performance according to section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley act. • Contribute to a multinational team with the planning, execution, and finalization of the SOX compliance program for Global Medtronic.• Advise new methods to improve financial controls and operating efficiency.Achievements: Optimization of SOX audit testing through the automation of evidence requests for more than 200 controls. Develop an analytic tool to process information for the annual SOX scoping process, saving time, and increasing accuracy.

• Performed internal audits of financial and departmental operations, developing risk assessments and conducting process walkthroughs to ensure compliance with documented processes• Performed strategic planning, execution and finalization of audit engagements.• Prepared audit programs and working papers, following Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS)• Recommended new methods to improve internal controls and operating efficiency

• Monitored government regulations and standards to ensure alignment with company policies and procedures• Reviewed reports and individual transactions which appeared suspicious to uncover possible AML activityAchievements: More than 20 customers blocked due to strong indications of unusual operations through formal investigations, reducing the company's exposure to AML associated risks.

• Developed and delivered compliance training about the internal control function to team members and staff. • Studied economic information and read historical data to evaluate the soundness of operational practices against the AML regulation frameworkAchievements: Develop an analytic tool to segment more than 400.000 customers, 5.000 suppliers, and 1.000 employees according to their inherent AML risk, using clustering techniques such as K means and data from sales and geolocation.

Contemporary topics in accounting and managementPhD Medhat Endrawes-Logistic organization of the course-Assistance to the students joined in the course-Translation for students with no handling of english language-Preparation of audiovisual material for each session