Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
With over 20 years of experience in auditing, accounting, and financial analysis, I am a Senior Audit Manager at Wells Fargo, a diversified, community-based financial services company with approximately $1.9 trillion in assets. I lead and oversee audits of internal controls across various business units and functions, ensuring compliance with regulatory and industry standards, and providing insights and recommendations to senior management and stakeholders on risk management, governance, and performance improvement. As a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduate, I have developed core competencies in internal control assurance, risk assessments, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, finance and accounting, and process improvement. I leverage these skills to deliver high-quality audit reports, identify and mitigate risks, and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of internal processes and controls. I am passionate about excellence, integrity, and innovation in the auditing profession, and I strive to contribute to the mission and vision of TIAA and its clients.
Manages multiple audit teams and engagements through the full risk-based audit lifecycle for a variety of audits and advisories. Additionally, perform continuous monitoring over the OCFO function (e.g., Corporate Accounting, Corporate Treasury, FP&A, Cost Allocation, Third-Party Vendor Management) as inputs to the overall risk assessment and audit planning process. Responsible for providing recommendations that improve operational efficiency, developing strong written deliverables to clients, tracking and monitoring audit issues through resolution, developing and providing performance appraisals for direct reports, and leading multiple internal audit initiatives. Key results: ● Oversaw a review of the expense allocation process for the organization leading to key findings, including enhancement of the methodology, documentation requirements and retention, and change management processes. ● Led advisory over a key project within the CFO area that resulted in recommending multiple areas of opportunity for management to address through project completion. Recommendations from the audit led to enhanced documentation, reevaluation of future state processes, and additional management oversight.
Managed multiple audit teams and engagements through the full risk-based audit lifecycle for a variety of audits, including financial, operational, and consulting reviews. Additionally, oversaw the SOX program across the consolidated entity and delivered summaries to the SOX Oversight Committee quarterly. Attended and presented reporting at CFO staff meetings. Responsible for providing recommendations that improve operational efficiency, developing strong written deliverables to clients, tracking and monitoring audit issues through resolution, developing and providing performance appraisals for direct reports, and leading multiple internal audit initiatives. Key results: ● Developed and led implementation of a new consolidated view SOX approach for the company. Created a consistent risk-based approach across all entities while realizing process efficiencies. Oversaw testing and administration of the program for the entire Internal Audit function, including control design changes and created standardized workflows making more efficient processes. ● Led review of major corporate strategic in-flight project that resulted in highlighting various areas of opportunity of which management was not previously aware. Recommendations from the audit led to a reorganization and prioritization of project deliverables and enhanced project governance.
Lead audits to evaluate the established internal controls designed to manage the Company’s most significant risks. Responsible for planning of individual audits, developing test steps to evaluate controls, and gathering/analyzing information as necessary to assess the effectiveness and adequacy of the controls.
Concentrated in finance along the corporate finance track. Extensive work in financial analysis, capital budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and strategy.
• Developed model that tracks foreign currency effects on new truck sales to affiliates by specific market. Specifically analyzed effects on consolidated contribution margin and inventory costs. • Prepared process map and narrative of entire sales function. Identified areas where controls could be strengthened to ensure accurate pricing is used by Regional Sales Managers. • Developed sales and pricing IT systems map showing how each interacts and is updated. Provided more transparent view for the sales and marketing controllers of the IT environment over the sales process.