United States
Risk & Controls Senior Manager with nearly 10 years of experience across governance, operational risk, compliance, and internal controls within regulated financial services environments. Currently a Senior Manager at Deloitte US, advising senior stakeholders on control effectiveness, risk management, and governance frameworks. International experience across the US, the Netherlands, and Italy, supporting organizations through regulatory scrutiny, remediation, and business transformation initiatives. Particularly interested in building scalable governance and control environments that enable growth while maintaining strong risk oversight. I have a keen interest in fostering leadership, advancement and inclusion in the workplace and I co-lead the Deloitte New England Women&Allies community.
-Supported organizations to evaluate and improve their Operational Risk Management Frameworks. -Led risk and control assessments and internal audit engagement across regulated banking institutions, evaluating governance structures and identifying control gaps impacting operational resilience and regulatory compliance. -Assessed and enhanced control frameworks supporting financial reporting integrity and regulatory compliance, contributing to strengthened governance in highly regulated environments. -Partnered with senior management to drive remediation of systemic control weaknesses, improving risk transparency and strengthening enterprise-level governance practices. -Evaluated risk management practices against regulatory expectations, supporting clients in aligning operational processes with evolving supervisory standards.
Working on long term and short risk management, internal audit compliance assignments. Performing analysis and operational risk assessments on Clients' risk management and internal control systems in compliance with applicable laws and market best practices. Performing PCAOB/ICFR financial audit. Designing, implementing and testing the operating effectiveness of business controls under the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002.
-Internal audit review for different clients in Consumer and Retail, Financial Services, Energy sectors -Compliance SOX: Supporting the client in the application of the SOX Act 2002 regulation. From the preliminary analysis of the main financial processes and controls in scope, using a risk approach view, to the performing of walkthrough activities in order to test the design/operational effectiveness of the main Company's controls. Processing and reporting of regular documents to be shared with the Company's management. -Compliance L. 231/01: Risk assessment, gap analysis and review of Company' procedures in respect of Legislative Decree No. 231/01. Updating of the Organizational, Management and Control Model in order to acknowledge the regulatory changes regarding the Legislative Decree No. 231/01 and to map the changes occurred in the business structure of the client. -IFRS 15 – Analysis, design and implementation of specific controls of Revenue process under the IFRS 15 standard. -Financial Communications' Mapping and Risk Assessment: Supporting the client during the phase of (i) mapping (ii) operational risk assessment and (iii) evaluation of the risk level of all the financial communications' addressed to the market and containing price sensitive information. -Forensic: Analysis and reconstuction of a banking operation through in-depth analysis of the documents related to the operation and to the internal regulation of the Client in order to identify roles, responsibilities and anomalies during the period when the operation occurred.
-Internal audit review for different clients in Consumer and Retail, Financial Services, Energy sectors -Compliance L. 231/01: Risk assessment, gap analysis and review of Company' procedures in respect of Legislative Decree No. 231/01. Updating of the Organizational, Management and Control Model in order to acknowledge the regulatory changes regarding the Legislative Decree No. 231/01 and to map the changes occurred in the business structure of the client. -Financial Communications' Mapping and Risk Assessment: Supporting the client during the phase of (i) mapping (ii) operational risk assessment and (iii) evaluation of the risk level of all the financial communications' addressed to the market and containing price sensitive information.
-Consulting in the fields of planning and management control systems -Budgets and Business Plans -Management of cash flows and stock systems -Consulting in the IT field in order to develop business supports
- monitoring more than 100 EU website per week and EU call for tenders/call for proposals published by the European Union Agencies and DGs in order to select and collect specific information to be disseminated to the company’s partners and clients - developing innovative marketing tools using the company’s social networks - supporting the creation and update of the new company website through Wordpress - acquisition of knowledge about the most website providers and their functionalities - participation to Infodays and workshops about Horizon 2020, the new financing program of the European Union - attending conferences in the fields of social innovation economy, sustainability, small and medium enterprise creation and development, business innovation, renewable energy, research, governance, project management, financing opportunities, ICT, European policies, Europe 2020 strategy - editing reports, following the company’s guidelines regarding the events, mentioned above, for the company’s clients and partners - exploring the potential of the new system for editing and publishing a weekly newsletter through the Mailchimp program in order to facilitate the partner’s information. This tool is now integrated in the marketing tools of the company - learning how to manage targeted list of stakeholders through Excel and Access - internal trainings to new trainees in order to explain how to better manage web editor and newsletter programs - involvement in different activities linked to INNOVBONE and ATOPICA projects (financed by the European Union)