Management Project

Addyson Phan

Santa Cruz CA *****

831-***-**** Mobile

abl1uw@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

A challenging position that will utilize and demonstrate my auditing,

financial analysis, project management skills.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

. Managed forensic audit projects, SOX compliance certification and

internal audit projects with in the U.S and International (Asia,

Europe, North America, and South America).

. Integrated COSO criteria into each stage of the audit process

. Financial and operational risk assessment and mitigation

. Project management skills, demonstrated by the ability to direct

concurrent and/or complex projects that often involved risk, ambiguity

and geographic diversity

. Systematic approach to problems solving, demonstrated by the ability

to focus on key issues/root causes and methodically dissect them into

manageable parts for execution

. Experienced in Oracle. Improved processes that lead to operational

efficiency and cost savings.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Silicon Valley Bank Internal Auditor / Compliance Regulatory

Affairs Manager

Santa Clara February 2008 - Present

. Assist the Director of Internal Audit in the development of Annual

Audit Plans and will oversee specific audit assignments from start

to finish

. Supervision and review of the work of one or more auditors, as well

as the work of selected consultants

. Assume an assisting role with the shaping of departmental changes

(redesigned procedures, application of new tools and methodologies)

and coordinating an efficient/effective process for evaluating

internal controls companywide

. Assisting role with the shaping of departmental changes (redesigned

procedures, application of new tools and methodologies) and

coordinating an efficient/effective process for evaluating internal

controls companywide.

. Managed SOX 404 compliance plan development by giving consideration

to changes in key accounts, risks and controls from the prior

year's assessment; staying abreast of business operations to

determine changes in processes, locations, and technical accounting

application that have significant impact for SOX 404 purposes;

planning and assessment of permanent and temporary resources;

budgeting

. Responsible for conducting and leading complex Regulatory Audits in

accordance with Federal Reverse and the State of California.

. Planned, documented, performed and coordinated with external

auditors on SOX walkthrough and testing efforts.

. Regularly interacted with executive management and external

auditors to convey findings identified during walkthroughs and

testing thus assessing the risk and impact of deficiencies.

Identified and made recommendations for remediation.

. Delivered timely and constructive feedback to direct reports and

outside vendors. Effectively represented audit team members for the

calibration session

. Risk-assessed, developed, and executed financial and operation

audits to ensure compliance with company policies and procedures,

as well as legal and regulatory requirements.

. Prepared reports to communicate the findings. Identified

causes/effects and developed recommendations to mitigate

risks/exposures and consulted on opportunities for improvement.

. Assisted in assessing, redefining and streamlining business

processes to achieve greater operational efficiency and

effectiveness, while maintaining or enhancing internal controls.

Responsible for developing operationally practicable solutions and

ensuring proper segregation of duties

. Identified and performed worldwide internal and/or external

investigations pertaining to questionable conducts, transaction or

other activities.

. Develop relationships with key stakeholders at senior management

level

. Identify value add projects and sell to senior management

. Present Internal Audit summary activity to the Audit Committee on

an as needed basis

. Perform special projects at the request of the Audit Committee

JDSU Senior Internal Auditor

Milpitas, CA June 2006 - Feb

2008

. Assisted the internal Audit Director with the planning and

coordinating of internal audit scope and project. Managed SOX

compliance projects for both in North America and international

locations.

. Coordinated investigations with Corporate Security, HR and Legal

groups.

. Managed SOX consultants to perform SOX 404 testing, evaluate

exceptions and assisted in developing management action plans to

close identified gaps.

. Communicating with business groups and finance team for operational

control improvement

. Lead both forensic audit projects and internal audit projects.

Managed projects such as global treasury audits, supply chain

audits, worldwide inventory audits and fraud investigations for

Asia and European investments.

. Perform a key leadership role in the annual company-wide SOX

planning and risk assessment process

. Responsible for internal control documentation including

enhancements and exception analysis to support management of SOX

initiatives. This required working closely with Operation units,

Corporate Finance groups and Management

. Oversee SOX testing conducted by the internal controls team.

Maintain all accounting policies and procedures for various

processes. Identities opportunities for additional controls

automation resulting in optimizing control efficiency and

effectiveness in a manner consistent with company wide policies and

procedures Work closely with third parties and external auditors on

SOX compliance audits

. Lead or assist with special company-wide projects and their

integration with SOX.

. Responsible for planning, organizing and conducting financial,

Operational and compliance audits to evaluate the effectiveness of

internal controls

. Developed solutions to strengthen internal controls and to mitigate

risk, improve profitability and assist management with decision

making.

. Ensured that the procedures were place to address complaints.

. Develop and provide training to management and staff on controls

and internal business process controls

. Assist in the development of annual internal audit plans as well

as developing objectives for individual audits

. Perform and lead staff in conducting audits to ensure thorough

coverage of areas reviewed, proper evaluation of internal controls,

and policy compliance within budgeted and scheduled timeframes

. Determine or assist in determining proper scope of test work;

develop and review audit programs tailored to the

financial/operational audit being conducted

. Present verbal and written reports on audit results and recommend

corrective actions or improvement as required

. Track, monitor and validate completion of audit observations

. Appraise adequacy of management responses and corrective actions

implemented

FLEXTRONICS INTERNATIONAL Internal Auditor

San Jose, CA May 2005 - June 2006

. Assumed responsibility for daily interactions and presentations

to senior business and operations managers

. Responsible for compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

. Performed internal control reviews in accordance with

established business procedures.

. Prepared work-papers and developed formal written reports to

communicate results. Made recommendations to management for

corrective actions.

. Reviewed financial and operating processes for adequacy of

controls, compliance with policies, and good business practices.

. Performed SOX 404 audit in North America, South America, Latin

American and Asia

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Sept. 2000 - May

2005

Scotts Valley, CA 95066

Financial Auditor Jan. 2002 - May

2005

. Responsible for planning and performing audit reviews for 3

Retails, 3 Distributors & 17 OEM (Original Equipment

Manufacturers) accounts

. Evaluated procedures and controls for compliance, effectiveness

and efficiency.

. Recommended and Implemented control improvements.

. Reconciled account receivables to general ledger resulting in

the balancing of accounts

. Established reviews of customer credit memos and identified $6M

in erroneous credit. These findings resulted in the write off

reconciled balance and increased revenue.

. Set up procedures to insure accuracy of write offs, charge backs

and issuance of credits.

. Interfaced with various departments within the organization and

customers to resolve discrepancies

. Responsible for establishing and maintaining strong customer and

productive working relationships

. Key player on multiple Six Sigma projects and helped to propose

creative approaches to problem solving

. Increased cash flow by $10M by consolidating credit analysis

function, reducing outstanding receivables from 48 to 20 days,

and minimizing risk from marginal customers.

Financial Analyst Jul. 2001 - Jan.

2002

. Monitored CEO, CFO and Senior VPs' expenditures by providing

monthly, quarterly and yearly report

. Prepared budgets, forecasts and financial reviews

. Prepared journal entries for Monthly close, Quarterly and Year-

End reporting

. Prepared forecasts, budgeting, profit and loss and income and

balance statements

. Reviewed proposed engineering capital expenditures and provided

ROI analysis. Key financial contact to business unit

management.

. Developed risk focused test to ensure compliance with

established policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

Project Cost Analyst Sept. 2000 - Jul.

2001

. Performed budgetary control on project costs

. Conducted variance and sensitivity analyses to facilitate

decision making for Corporate/Project Management.

. Monitored project expenditures by providing monthly expenditure

and cost analyses data to management.

. Provide analyses (ROI) and recommendations in budgets forecasts,

CAR, financial plans and business forecasts to Project

Management teams and Finance community in general.

. Processed payment documents and audit invoices for payment to

vendors.

. Reduced project spending by $5K in one quarter.

. Identified $16M in cost savings by identifying unutilized

capital budget previously approved and allocated to cost project

which allowed the project to come in under plan and on time.

EDUCATION

San Jose State University

BS Degree in Business Administration, Concentration in Finance.

Minor in Economics, 2000

CERTIFICATION

Enroll Agents for Taxation

Certified Fraud Examiner

Certified Public

Accountant

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Travel, Art History, Oil painting and Reading

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