NOIME DEVEZA IBAY

**** ******** **., ******** *****, SUN VALLEY, PARANAQUE CITY

Contact Nos.: 02-552 7848 / 091*-*******

Email: adl5qo@r.postjobfree.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

April, 2014 – Present

Diageo Asia Pacific Shared Services Centre

Mckinley West, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City

Operations and Regulatory Manager (April 2018 – Present)

General Management

Job Description :

Operations

Establishing policies that promote company culture and vision

Monitor and communicate KPI results. Drive and coordinate monthly discussions with the relevant teams to ensure actions are in place to drive positive KPI.

Oversight of entity-spending

Supports CARM cycle of BSSC Entity Wide Controls

Point of escalation to align issues on CARM mapping discussions, and control-related concerns

Leads the company’s Business Continuity Plan, ensuring it is fully in-place and effectively working within the centre

Leads the Occupational Health and Safety program of the company.

Manages and drives the quarterly Risk Management Committee sessions.

Escalation point in terms of Facilities Management.

Regulatory

Ensure local regulatory compliance, identify and assess risks

Support investigation, remediation and closure of compliance breaches

Manages the Compliance and Ethics agenda of the company

Assigned as company’s Data Privacy Officer (DPO).

Controls, Compliance and Ethics Manager (April 2014 – March 2018)

Governance and Controls

Job Description :

Controls –Responsible in SOX compliance activities such as mapping and scoping, design and effectiveness testing and data quality, sign-off preparation and presentation of results to the key stakeholders of the company. Ensures effective internal controls across the processes such as Record to Report (RTR), Source to Pay (STP), Order to Cash (OTC), Human Resource (HR) and the entity (EWC) itself, are robust and well-embedded in the processes.

Facilitates and ensure that control issues and findings are properly identified, and appropriate root cause analysis and corresponding remediation actions are put into place, and monitored until completion.

Liaise and act as the main point of contact with company’s internal audit and external auditors to ensure that any concerns, issues and requirements are managed and monitored properly and in a timely manner.

Support ongoing and future migrations into Enterprise Operations Manila from a controls, risk management and compliance perspectives. Ensure controls mapping is reviewed and aligned with the sending markets and signed off by the Manila Service Centre and by each market before the go-live date. Ensure that by signing off, centre has clearly understood the risks and controls attached to the migrated process.

Risk Management – Manages and drives quarterly Risk Management Committee sessions participated by company’s leadership team, where business and compliance risks are identified and assessed, and with clear mitigation plans (complete with action parties and timelines) in place and documented. Reviews the mitigation plans and holds owners accountable for the actions to be taken and ensure best RM environment.

Maintains quality documentation of RMC sessions and and circulates to the RMC members to ensure action owners are well aware of their tasks and responsibilities.

Co-lead the company’s Business Continuity Program, reviews BCP documentatioin on a regular basis, ensure that it is comprehensive, responsive to business needs and adequately tested. Performs regular BCP testing, analyze the results and identify further actions necessary for a robust business continuity measures.

Compliance & Ethics - Effective management of potential and actual compliance breaches, addresses in line with company’s breach management standards and guidelines in coordination with relevant Subject Matter Experts and functions. Ensure that these are properly documented, addressed appropriately and learnings are cascaded accordingly.

In cooperation with HR, ensure an efficient induction plan with new employees, related to company code of business conduct, and global and local policies.

Lead promotional/awareness activities (e.g Policy workshops, ethics day, CobC re-launch, etc.) to ensure that Ethics and Compliance awareness amongst the employees are well-embedded and continue to be high agenda across the company.

Member of the company’s Board of Directors – participates in the regular board meeting and shares vote and opinion in the matters that will require decision, impacting the welfare of the company.

July, 2008 – April, 2014

Shell Business Service Centre

Solaris One Bld., Dela Rosa St., Legaspi Village, Makati City

Team Manager

Governance, Risk and Assurance

Job Description :

Managing the global SOX Sign off activity, across five Finance Operations locations (Manila, Chennai, KL, Glasgow, Krakow), done on quarterly basis. Coordinates, and ensures compliance to SOX requirements. Ensures successful completion of SOX sign off via strict coordination across centres, and presenting the overall results to the FO Leadership team.

Manages the team, specifically handling the Managed Hydrocarbon Group. Main function is to ensure controls framework of the group is effective and fit for purpose. Works with the process team to come up with appropriate and sustainable resolution of noted control failures. Leads the Annual Risk and Controls Identification ensuring a robust financial controls framework.

Conducts review of controls testing for various finance operations processes such as Managed Hydrocarbon Inventory, Revenue Billing, Intra-group, Credit, Manage Close, Data, and Expenditures, ensuring adherence to SOX requirements.

Worked as Financial Controls Advisor for DACH cluster (Shell Deutschland Oil, Shell Austria and Shell Switzerland), for 1 year international assignment, Germany-based. Main task is to ensure a robust Financial Controls Framework is in place. Scope of work includes monitoring of key financial control effectiveness, leading the annual risk and controls identification exercise, driving the semi-annual Control Owner Confirmation, coordinating the PWC audit engagement, managing the quarterly review of the Segregation of Duties, and driving the quarterly SOX sign off.

Performed controls testing of Hydrocarbon Management Key controls (both RDS and FCM), provides operational assessments and recommendations for controls and process improvements.

Double-hutting as Controls Migration Lead, primarily looking after proper and effective migration of controls from onshore; inter-centre and intra-centre migrations.

Acts as GRA focal point for RtR- Hydrocarbon Management Team. Addresses issues and concerns of the team, in terms of controls (RCI, Control Owner Confirmation, controls testing, CCI remediation, other controls matters.)

Lead the Controls Self Assessment (CSA) Project which aimed to embed the controls self-monitoring in the processes in Finance Operations. Also introduced this activity in Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH, as an initiative during the international assignment stint.

Performs review of accounts in quarterly SOAR Spot Check. Also introduced this activity in Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH, as an initiative during the international assignment stint. Was able to promote connectivity between the business (onshore) and the Finance Operations (offshore).

Provides annual self-testing training with the processes in FO Manila.

Assists the quarterly CFL Walkthroughs and FOLT Walkthroughs

Participated in the global project of designing Global Test Scripts for Streamline controls, specifically designed testscripts for STBC, STCC, STRC workstreams.

November, 2006 – June, 2008

Carrier International Corporation - ROHQ

Union Bank Plaza Bldg., Ortigas Center, Pasig City

Junior Compliance Accountant

Controls, Management and Procedures Department

Job Description :

Performed Sarbanes Oxley monthly compliance testing of different business cycles such as Revenue, Expenditures, Payroll, Fixed Assets, Treasury, Financial Reporting, Information Technology, and Company Level Controls. Process of testing includes gathering of samples, evaluating, checking and testing of samples and the processes; identifying the key controls and the lapses both in the processes and the in the current controls; communicating the issues with the process owners; document the testing, issues and the action plans; submit to the CMP Supervisor for review and to the CMP Senior Manager for final approval.

Encode the test results to SOXA Tool before the specified deadline set by UTC-WHQ.

Performed annual 100% vendor masterfile review. Process include checking and validating accuracy of the vendor details (e.g. vendor name and address, vendor code, bank account details) as against the Supplier Maintenance Information Form (SMIF) submitted by the vendors. Checking and validating exceptions noted during the review. Communicating the issues to process owners. Documentation of the review.

Performed annual system access review, in correspondence with the IT Group. Process include, indentifying if the access rights given to employees are in accordance with their job functions. Document the issues and exceptions identified during the review and communicate with the system administrator for proper deletion or modification of the access rights.

Performed month-end and year-end closing activities for three (3) business units (CTD, CNT & Linde) handled by Carrier – SSC. Process includes preparing and posting month-end standard journal entries. Propose and prepare adjusting and reclassification journal entries to correct balances affecting the three business units. Preparation of schedules such as Inventory on Hand, Quantity Sold and Full Backlog Summary for the three business units. Preparation of quickfile and uploading such to Upstream Weblink to convert the file to uplodable file. Then uploading the file to Hyperion Financial Management System (HFM), then check the Out-Of-Balance (OOB), if zero or not. Preparation of checkfiles for submission to the business units onshore.

Performed accounts reconciliation of Balance Sheet accounts, for three (3) entities based in Australia (CTD, CNT & Linde). Processes include investigating and validating the reasons of the reconciling items identified during reconciliation. Communicating either with the Finance Disbursement Group, Intercompany Group or with the entity for the resolution of the reconciling items. Preparation of Accounts Reconciliation Report to be submitted to the entity.

Assists the UTC International Audit Division (IAD) group during the yearly IAD audit engagement.

Performed costing of Linde product using the clien’t system (BPCS). Preparation of costing report for submission to our counterpart onshore.

Preparation of Daily Sales Report, Weekly Sales Report and Monthly Sales Reconciliation for CTD, CNT and Linde, as part of Carrier-SSC’s Service Level Agreement (SLA).

September, 2005 – March, 2006

Johnson & Johnson Philippines – Medical Division

Edison Rd., Bo. Ibayo, Paranaque City

Accounts Payable Accountant

Finance Department

Job Description:

Checks and reviews the validity of the company’s various accounts payables.

Process all payables (trade or non-trade) of the company to the suppliers using company’s accounting system (JDEdwards).

Process Expense Report of the Employees daily using the company’s system (JDE).

Prepares request to the bank such as traveler’s check application, application to purchase foreign currencies, fund transfer requests, etc.

Prepares Allowance/Disallowance form for the disallowed reimbursements of the employees. Submits the same to the Treasury Manager for approval.

Responsible in distributing checks payable to the employees and suppliers.

October, 2003 – May, 2005

Accenture

GT Tower, Ayala Avenue, Makati City

Accounts Receivable Analyst - Tradional Fresno Group

Job Description:

Assigned as QA point person that checks and reviews all the reconciliation done by the group before tagging them as close and ready for audit onshore.

Gives recommendations in reconciling difficult accounts.

Daily reconciliation of assigned accounts.

Research check and payment support from an internet-based foreign bank (JP Morgan and Bank One).

Continuous correspondence with onshore counterpart concerning issues such as balances, and resolutions in bringing the balances of the accounts to zero.

Preparation of Reconciliation Report showing the balances and reasons of such balances, for use of our onshore counterpart.

Process terminations of coverage of resigned employees using client’s system

October, 2000 – June, 2002

Sterling Paper Products Ent., Inc.

Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati City

Internal Auditor – Corporate Audit Department

Job Description:

Conducts audit of the different business processes of the company.

Understands the system and business phase of a certain department and document such using VISIO 2000, and submit the same to the Audit Supervisor for review.

Assessing the related process/business risks by performing a transaction walkthrough. Documents the results and submit the same to Audit Supervisor for review.

Preparation of Test Plan to be used in validating and testing the key controls that a certain department is using in their daily operation.

Execution of the Test Plan and documents the result of the testing and validation done.

Issues Preliminary Audit Findings (PAF) to the auditees, for comments and suggestions.

Draft audit report and submit the same to the Audit Supervisor for review, and subsequently to the Audit Manager for approval.

Supervised annual Inventory Count

Conducts fraud audits and prepares audit report stating the findings and recommendations.

January, 2000 – June, 2000

Asian Bank (now Metrobank Corp.)

Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Makati City

Accounting Assistant – Comptrollership Division

Job Description:

Assigned in Foreign Currency Denomination Unit (FCDU)

Reconciliation of the Multi Currency Account Package (MCAP) and the FNS GLIFF details.

After identifying the differences, prepares monthly Reconciliation Statement of 64 branches for distribution to the said branches.

Deletion of float items in Reconciliation Statement.

EDUCATION

1995 - 1999 Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila

Bachelor of Science in Accountancy

1991 - 1995 Ignacio Villamor High School

6th Honorable Mention

1985 - 1991 Sta. Ana Elementary School

5th Honorable Mention

SKILLS

- Effective people and stakeholder management

- Embedded risk and controls mindset

- Computer literate

MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, JDEdwards, SAP, BPCS System, Hyperion Financial Management System (HFM), UpStream Weblink, Rumba

- Proficient in communication skills

- Multi-tasking, can work overtime

- Can deal with different levels of people.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

City Address: 2004 Raymundo St., Parkview Homes, Sun Valley, Paranaque City.

Tel. Nos. : 632-***-**** / 091*-*******

Birthday : 04 April, 1978

Height : 5’3”

Weight : 125 lbs.

Religion : Roman Catholic

Civil Status : Married

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