Stephen Pace Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Al, Us

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

Birmingham, Alabama, Us

San Antonio, Texas, Us

- Led IT audit teams throughout the audit lifecycle in the functional areas of IT governance, identity and access management, IT change management, SDLC, IT operations, insider threat, fraud, and business continuation.- Managed the work plans and development of audit team members possessing varying degrees of expertise to ensure timely and quality delivery of audit deliverables.- Performed risk assessment procedures including examining entity level risks, process level risks, regulation applicability, and fraud risk factors to formulate adequate scoping and audit coverage.- Created and managed department wide continuous monitoring activities to identify events impacting risk and control profiles including business changes, metrics, regulatory updates, and industry information. - Identified control weaknesses, opportunities for improvement, and recommendations for corrective actions to guide management in the reduction of operational risk.- Developed and maintained relationships with control partners to drive strategic initiatives with the business and objectively challenge business action plans.

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- Led and managed a portfolio of IT controls assurance and readiness projects ranging from external audits, internal audits, controls integration, and service organization control reports (e.g. SOC 1, SOC2).- Performed technical IT risk assessments to identify key risks and controls, inform project scoping, and guide testing procedures.- Managed and coached project staff resulting in the consistent application of quality guidelines for deliverables.- Performed and reviewed staff IT control assessments covering cyber security, access management, program change management, and systems development domains.- Led the revision and adoption of IT general control and technical ERP policies, procedures, work programs, and practice aids within the southeast market.- Leveraged project management skills to standardize and communicate portfolio progress, including project plans, detailed budgets, deliverable schedules, and staff allocation matrices.- Demonstrated abilities as a team leader, including building positive environments, balancing workloads and client needs, providing meaningful feedback in a timely manner, and informing firm leadership of progress.

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- Led and directed teams to create, develop, and execute internal and external audit solutions for large public and private companies- Supported controls and systems related aspects of internal audits and external financial audits in the areas of planning, audit strategy, scoping, execution, and deficiency evaluation- Led a company-wide effort to implement new SOX programs in response to emerging professional and regulatory standards- Assisted client management in the redesign of business processes, resulting in process control standardization and optimization - Aided process assurance teams by performing technical IT controls reviews, including information technology general controls, operating system, application, database, and reporting tools for external audit engagements- Performed third party and other opinion-level services in response to service organization requests from customers for information about internal controls, business results, and operations

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Birmingham, Alabama, Us

Bachelor Of Science In Commerce And Business Administration, Management Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science In Commerce And Business Administration, Accounting