PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Dedicated IT Professional, talented at establishing clear risks assessment methodology, guided by the scope and objectives of each audit from start to finish. Fosters open communication with colleagues and clients.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IT Auditor

Confidential, Mansfield, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Manages the audit process, from initiation through information gathering, to assessment of business risks, drafting of the audit approach, entrance and exit conferences; recommendations on issues detected, and follow - up with the auditee on corrective actions while managing time and budgets for projects.
• Engage in planning activities and risk assessment to determine audit objectives, scope and approach.
• Knowledgeable in “audit universe” by focusing on area of high risks, such as access controls, network security, segregation of duties, environmental control and adequate staff security awareness training.
• Conducts IT general controls audits and risk assessments. Review organizational policies, standards and procedures and providing advice on their adequacy, accuracy and compliance with processes, procedures and regulatory requirements (e.g. SOX (Sarbanes Oxley Act).
• Knowledgeable in disaster recovery and business continuity plans, change management and back up plans
• Participates on integrated audits with operational audit team to assist with the evaluation and analysis of the technology infrastructure supporting financial and operational business processes.
• Identifying and escalating, as necessary, potential IT issues.
• IT audits methodology in system development life cycle (SDLC), from project initiation through go live.
• Testing and documenting financial and computer system records for information system integrity and transaction accuracy.
• Review change management process, and verify that changes are not made to IS production and/or quality assurance system without proper approval or authorization.
• Review client SOD Matrix for violations of incompatible roles.
• Evaluate IT processes for effectiveness and efficient internal control, and provide recommendation for improvement.
• Perform work in accordance with appropriate quality assurance and professional standards.
• Review the adequacy of critical controls, such as access controls, audit log events, data integrity and security, segregation of duties, change controls and management, quality assurance testing, incident management, release management for business applications and systems, such as ERP, web applications, firewall, network database, operating systems, remote access connectivity, to mitigate any potential risks.
• Articulate audit findings, risks and detailed recommendations to audit committee or upper management.

Oracle GRC Consultant

Confidential, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Review the access control policy of the organization (physical and logical), to determine its adequacy and effectiveness.
• Provide expertise to clients with regards to Governance, Risk and Compliance.
• Review the procedure for users’ management and password security.
• Responsible for the configuration of the following Oracle GRC modules: AACG, TCG, and CCG.
• Review and remediate client’s SOD violations and recommended mitigating controls.
• Recommended major GRC patches and worked with DBA to resolve technical issues.
• Performed end user training and assisted with post production support activities.
• Examine the audit trail to review access, user activities and failed login/logout.
• Evaluate and review the business continuity planning of the organization to determine adequacy and effectiveness.
• Established the control points for every phase of system implementation as defined by the SDLC methodology, end user buy-off, testing in development and not production environment.
• Reviewed the adequacy of systems, products, processes, and services meet the policies and standards of the organization.

Accountant

Confidential, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Prepared asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
• Summarizes current financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports. Contributed to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Substantiated financial transactions by auditing documents. Maintained accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures.
• Maintained financial security by following internal controls. Verify documentation completeness, integrity and validity.
• Complied with federal, state, and local financial legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, enforced adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions. Prepared special financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends.
• Created periodic reports, comparing budgeted costs to actual costs.
• Recommended financial actions through thorough analysis.

Account Reconciliation Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identified and resolved accounting and control issues related to business and process changes.
• Recorded journal entries. Insured the accuracy of information through monthly analysis and reconciliation of assigned balance sheet accounts.
• Researched and reconciled assigned general ledger accounts.
• Proactively identified and resolved any issues or reconciliation items related to general ledger and balance sheet accounts. Led teams for process improvement and issue resolution
• Documented the business processes related to assigned general ledger accounting, including transaction flow. Reviewed and monitored accounting controls to ensure accurate and timely financial records.
• Supervised teller staff. Directed the day to day operations of the Teller area. Tasks included: teller balancing, ordering cash, cash vault balancing, scheduling teller staff, ordering supplies, and completed daily and monthly reports. Excellent customer experience at every point of contact.
• Trained/instructed employees on job duties or company policies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SKILLS: CAATS; Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Access); SQL. Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), with experience in ERP R12 Oracle E Business Suite. COBIT and COSO. Role based access control (RBAC). PCI-DSS.