Seven years of audit experience working for Big 4 audit firms and federal and state government. As an audit professional I understood client business objectives, strategy to achieve their objectives, processes to implement this strategy, risks preventing them from achieving their objectives, controls they rely on to mitigate the risk, testing the design of the control to determine whether it avoids the risk or mitigates the risk to a sufficiently low level, test the operating effectiveness of those controls, assessing whether controls have reduced risk of material misstatements to a low level, if not perform substantive and other analytical procedures to determine whether the financial statements prepared by management provide a true and fair view of the nature of its business and the results of its operation. Responsibilities grew from performing field work to managing audit engagements. Audit experience includes financial statement, internal and compliance
audits.
Accomplishments
· Design internal controls over verbal purchases of traded commodities that are key purchase to stock raw materials for a global confectioner.
· Complete a due diligence review, valuation of shares and calculation of share swap ratios for a global pharmaceutical client that was spinning off its agrochemicals business to a new company and merging its remaining business with another global pharmaceutical company.
· Managed a team of four to reduce nursing home audit appeals from 50 to 33% of audits completed or 113 audit appeals per year allowing a reduction of 1 full time employee by researching the top ten audit areas causing the appeals, reviewing audit procedures in those areas and modifying them to make them more relevant to the audit objective.
· Performed physical observation of inventory using cut offs and roll forwards for a global confectioner operating two 24/7 lines in a continuous processing non discrete environment. Valued inventory using a standard costing system.
· Performed agreed upon procedures on a national quasi governmental student loan financing and servicing organization to report on whether they have performed the required due diligence on delinquent loans to retain their federal guaranty.
· Audited the investment process and valuation for the 2nd largest state employee defined benefit plan. Reviewed the valuation by asset class and mark to market valuation.
audits.
Accomplishments
· Design internal controls over verbal purchases of traded commodities that are key purchase to stock raw materials for a global confectioner.
· Complete a due diligence review, valuation of shares and calculation of share swap ratios for a global pharmaceutical client that was spinning off its agrochemicals business to a new company and merging its remaining business with another global pharmaceutical company.
· Managed a team of four to reduce nursing home audit appeals from 50 to 33% of audits completed or 113 audit appeals per year allowing a reduction of 1 full time employee by researching the top ten audit areas causing the appeals, reviewing audit procedures in those areas and modifying them to make them more relevant to the audit objective.
· Performed physical observation of inventory using cut offs and roll forwards for a global confectioner operating two 24/7 lines in a continuous processing non discrete environment. Valued inventory using a standard costing system.
· Performed agreed upon procedures on a national quasi governmental student loan financing and servicing organization to report on whether they have performed the required due diligence on delinquent loans to retain their federal guaranty.
· Audited the investment process and valuation for the 2nd largest state employee defined benefit plan. Reviewed the valuation by asset class and mark to market valuation.