Akhmad Fajridina

Leading Traveloka’s SOX IT control implementation and maturity uplift across all in-scope systems:
• Developed and socialized Key IT General Controls in line with SOX and COSO frameworks.
• Conducted SOX risk assessment, walkthroughs, and control testing for business and IT processes.
• Identified and remediated critical ITGC gaps in collaboration with system and process owners.
• Implemented and administered the first Internal Control Management Software platform.
• Acted as primary liaison for external IT auditors, ensuring smooth and successful audits.

Key Achievements:
• Fully remediated ITGC audit findings from external IT audit.
• Delivered timely and successful SOX readiness in the company’s first-year compliance cycle.

Established and led the IT audit function and drove digital transformation within the internal audit department.

IT Audit Project:
Fajri’s responsibilities include:
• Performing IT risk assessment and developing the IT audit universe.
• Designing and communicating the IT audit plan to the Management.
• Leading IT audit team in testing key controls and completing IT audit fieldwork.
• Providing recommendation to enhance IT controls to the Management.
Key achievements from IT audit projects include:
• Significant Improvement in LAN port and WIFI security, where unauthorized devices are now completely blocked from accessing intranet network.
• Enhanced administrator access management.
• Improved visibility of endpoints where all PCs and Laptops are now tracked for outdated operating system, antivirus, etc.

Data Analytics and Other Digitalization Projects:
Fajri also plays a crucial role in Data Analytics and other digitalization projects which involve:
• Leading discussions with the Internal Audit team to gather user requirements, targeted benefits, and timelines.
• Engages with the IT team to assess data availability and the feasibility of proposed systems.
• Coordinating user acceptance test, identifying system errors and root cause of errors to ensure proper bug fixing by IT team.
• Provide training and socialization to the Internal Audit team on operating the systems.

Key achievements from these projects include:
• Detected 3, 000+ overstocked inventory items using analytics across 10, 000+ items.
• Built a web-based cost savings tracking system, cutting manual work and reporting delays.

Fajri is a Manager in IT audit and consulting services with strong experience and knowledge in IT governance review based on International Standards on Auditing (ISA), COSO and COBIT.

With more than eight years of experience, he led diverse client engagements in the following engagements:
• IT audit support for financial statement audits across top-tier clients (e.g., BNI, Newmont, Dairy Farm Group, Tokopedia, etc.).
• Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (ICOFR) Review
• Post-implementation reviews for SAP and core system upgrades.

Detailed experiences:

IT Audit Support for Financial Statement Audit:
Fajri was responsible for leading a team of 2-4 personnel comprising associate and senior associate auditors to review IT general controls, IT dependencies and Journal entries completeness and accuracy. In these projects, Fajri was able to formulate relevant findings for each of his clients. He also proactively advised his clients in remediating long outstanding audit findings and seeking out potential opportunity and improvement points from them. As a result, Fajri scored on average 8.5 out of 10 points on client survey feedback. In addition, one of Fajri’s audit project brought additional opportunity for PwC in 2018 where the client requested further PwC assistant in identifying segregation of duties conflict in SAP.

Internally, Fajri led discussions with the Financial Audit team in planning and scoping the IT audit projects. He proactively gave them insight in utilizing automation tools for financial audit works and advised alternative audit approaches when IT control deficiencies were noted from IT audit fieldwork. In addition, Fajri had coached and developed tens of associates and senior associates in IT audit technical skills and interpersonal skills. He monitored their work periodically, provided constructive feedback on their performance and gave advice on achieving the required skills to promote to the next level.

Internal Control Over Financial Reporting (ICOFR) Review:
In this project, Fajri was responsible for leading a team of 2-4 personnel of associate and senior associate auditors to review and update the current conditions of Telkomsel’s IT general controls for SOX audit in 2017. During this engagement, Fajri was able to align the IT control owners with the latest IT organization chart, adjust the control objectives and attributes to make it more practical, and socialize the new controls to all control owners.

Post-implementation Review:
In this project, Fajri was responsible for leading a team of 2-4 personnel comprising associate and senior associate consultants to review IT project management of a core system upgrade in KPEI and SAP Implementation in Telkomsel. In these projects, Fajri was able to identify control gaps such as incomplete user acceptance testing, incomplete go-live criteria, etc. and recommend improvement controls accordingly. As a result of our review, the clients were able to pass their financial statement audit with no IT audit findings in program development.