Information Technology Financial Services

EMMANUEL OSAFO MIREKU

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Professional Summary

An experienced Audit and Risk Assurance professional with over 10 years of experience across financial services, Healthcare, and Information technology industry. I currently lead teams in performing SOX audit, SOC 1, and SOC 2 attestation. I am skilled at leveraging Computer-Assisted Audit Techniques (CAATs) to improve audit efficiency.

Skills

SOX 404 Testing Risk Assessment and Audit Planning Internal Controls over Financial Reporting Project and Stakeholder Management CaseWare IDEA Microsoft Office 365 SQL Power BI

Professional Experience

KPMG United Sates Philadelphia office, PA

Experienced Senior Associate, Technology Assurance Audit May’ 22–Apr’ 24

Lead SOC 1, SOC II, and SOX audits for companies in the financial services, Healthcare, and Information technology industry with market caps of up to $8 billion.

Lead walkthroughs and execute testing of IT general controls (ITGC), application controls, systems development life cycle and business controls to determine result meet requirement, security standards and relevant framework such ISO 27001, COBIT, COSO and NIST requirements.

Leverage GRC tools such as AuditBoard and SharePoint to track progress of audit and maintain an up-to-date document request list.

Prepare clear and concise audit reports, summarizing findings, recommendations, and management responses.

Delegate and review tasks to and from off- shore teams of up to 5 individuals as well as manage internal teams of 2 peers and 2 junior associates.

KPMG Ghana Office

Manager, Internal Audit and Risk Consulting Services. Apr’ 20 – May’ 22

Led in the planning and execution of internal audit engagement in accordance with KPMG Methodology and relevant industry frameworks such COSO and COBIT.

Collaborate with engagement clients via co-sourcing arrangements to achieve key deliverables such internal audit charter, audit plan, engagement plan, work program and field work, through to remediations and follow-up.

Communicated status of engagements and findings timely to all levels of leadership through the preparation of reports, analysis, and related deliverables for internal audit, internal control, risk management, and compliance program.

Coordinated and cooperated with external auditors to ensure harmonization, enabling audit findings to support a streamlined annual external audit process.

KPMG Ghana Office

Senior Associate, IT Audit, Data Analytics and Revenue Assurance in External Audit. Oct’ 15 – Mar’ 20

Run client engagements from start to completion, which includes planning, executing, and reporting IT audits, IT controls reviews, and tests of IT controls (IT general controls, application controls, interface controls, key reports, etc.) as part of management’s internal controls over financial reporting.

Utilized data analytics tools such CaseWare IDEA to simulate system computation of interest income and expenses and other revenue assurance procedures.

Mentored and assessed performance of team members, resulting in an increase in team productivity.

KPMG Ghana Office

Audit Associate, Financial Statement Audit. Oct ’13 – Sep’15

Conducted financial statement audits where I carried out substantive procedures over financial statement captions in accordance with applicable GAAP and tested the design and operating effectiveness of controls relevant to financial reporting.

Managed fieldwork and provided regular updates to engagement managers, ensuring audit timelines were met.

Certifications

Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), ISACA Certified Risks and Information Systems Control (CRISC), ISACA Certificate in Cybersecurity (CC), International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2 Lean Six Sigma Green Belt CPA Candidate

Education

Master of Science, Accounting and Finance- University of Ghana Business School

BSC. Accounting with Computing (First Class Honors)- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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