Senior Internal Auditor
Vodafone Plc
Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months
Managed audits on Vodafone's readiness to adopt new accounting standards such as IFRS15 and IFRS16 across 23 operating companies and 5 joint ventures worldwide
•Provide financial risk management support to Vodafone's fast growing business Enterprise solutions that services more than 1500 global customers
•Conducted SOX testing in the group functions of Vodafone.
•Provided assurance to management on payment security system and processes through which over 4m transactions worth around €50bn payments are made annually.
•Extensive use of data analytics in the audits carried out relating to P2P, Record 2 Report.
•Advised on financial reporting, systems and end to end processes for new products and ventures that Vodafone has carried out in the past ten months.
•Assessed Internal control environment over financial reporting
•Presented audit findings to senior stakeholders and obtained management agreement on the recommendations proposed to resolve process, systems and people gaps.
Work Highlights
•Won a STAR award for the FY2016/17 for exemplifying trust, ambitious and competitiveness amongst a global Internal Audit team of 120 people.
•Delivered 28 audits in Q3 within a very tight deadline managing stakeholders from across the globe.
•Received an Exceptional Performance Rating in my first year of Vodafone.
•Very positive feedback from stakeholders.
•Successful tracking of management actions resulting in no overdue actions till date
Extensive experience in audit and assurance assignments for a wide range of industries which includes insurance brokers, housing associations, building societies, renewable energy companies and leisure companies
•Conducted SOX testing and JSOX testing
•Knowledge of IFRS, US GAAP and UK GAAP through examinations, technical training, and client experience.
•Conducted independent and objective assessments of ITGCs, corporate processes, compliance requirements at different clients in different sectors
•Strong leadership skills enhanced by management of teams of up to ten people.
Work Highlights:
•Increased profitability by 10 - 32% on the engagements that I was leading and managing
•Won encore awards for good project management skills and delivering an audit of huge group comprising of 23 entities with a high profitability margin.
Analysis of investment portfolios of the clients
•Handling of the client database and system.
Implementations of COSO and COBIT framework, SOX controls across the back office operations of the bank
•Risk & Compliance management for sixteen corporate branches across India
•Business continuity management implementation for the corporate branches as well as central operations units.
•Banking system developments and enhancements to mitigate operational and financial loss
•Process management and automation to generate efficiencies and deliver good customer experience
•Annual budgeting for corporate branches