Internal Auditor

Victor Gbenoba

Atlanta, Georgia ***** 404-***-**** adwrpo@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Victor is both a KPMG and Ernst and Young trained Chartered Accountant with experience in carrying out statutory audit engagements, financial statement preparation, ICFR and Sox testing, Fraud investigations, Internal Audit, Risk Management, and information systems audit across multiple industries. Work experience so far cut across multiple industries - Consulting, telecommunications, Financial Services, Energy and most recently consumer packaged goods industry. AREAS OF

EXPERTISE AND

CORE

COMPETENCIES

• Big four Accounting / External Audit

• Internal Audit and Risk Management

• Financial and operational Audit

• IT audit and Data Analysis

• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and

IFRS

• Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

• Soc 1, 2 Reports /SSAE

• COBIT, COSO, ITAF, ITGI, NIST,

ISO/IEC 27001 Frameworks

• Risk management experience

• ERP Applications Audit

• Programming experience: SQL and

Python

• ITGC, BCP, DRP, Backup and

Recovery, Risk Assessment

EXPERIENCE

SENIOR AUDIT MANAGER, FORENSICS AND BUSINESS ASSURANCE 07/2021 to Date Flour Mills Nigeria Plc Apapa, Lagos State

• Responsible for managing all fraud investigations across FMN and subsidiary companies.

• Developed the Enterprise and Fraud Risk Management framework across the business and ensured anti-fraud controls are implemented.

• Coordinated the International Fraud awareness week and ensured staffs are adequately sensitized on the negative effects of engaging in fraudulent behaviors within the group.

• Developed and implemented fraud data analytics tools to detect outliers and suspicious transactions within the Company IT and accounting systems.

• Developed and implemented the Fraud policy for the organization, carried out extensive fraud risk assessment and collaborated with the process owners to implement various anti-fraud controls to mitigate the risks of fraud within the business.

• Preparation of investigation report including root cause analysis and recommendations for Senior Management and Leadership of the business.

• Partake in several disciplinary Committees and appeared as expert witness representing the Company's management during court briefing on fraud cases.

• Testing of Financial, IT, operational and Anti-Fraud Controls to provide combine assurance to Management on operating effectiveness of internal controls.

• Involved in SOX testing, test of Internal control over financial reporting, updating of Enterprise and Fraud risk register.

• Presenting of Investigation and audit report to Board Risk and Audit Committee on quarterly basis

• Manage performance of audit assignments, review work papers and audit reports. MANAGER, FINANCE, OPERATIONS & IS AUDIT 10/2018 to 06/2021 Chilimited (A subsidiary of the Coca Cola Company) Isolo, Lagos State.

• Plan, organize and supervise internal audit operations and provide quality assurance on work done by Internal Audit team.

• Design audit programs related to systems review and governance and supervise audit team on all audits from inception to completion.

• Manage performance of audit assignments, review work papers and audit reports.

• Evaluate and test adequacy and effectiveness of Financial, IT, business controls to identify areas of risk and internal control improvement opportunities. These includes business process understanding and evaluation of controls surrounding Purchase to Pay (P2P), Record to report, Inventory, Order to Cash, PPE, Operations Accounting and other business processes.

• Supervise and provide needed training (including on-the-job training) to audit team members to ensure sufficient experience, knowledge, and skills to meet the needs of Audit Charter.

• Consult with process owners to make recommendations on business and process improvements.

• Provide support to Risk Management, Compliance, Forensics, and Internal Control Teams for achievement of overall mission of the department.

• Developed and executed SOX control documentation and testing. Assisted with periodic Sarbanes-Oxley planning and scoping measures and performed Information Technology risk-based audits (e.g., information security, change management, IT operations) for business units.

• Review processing integrity of business applications and verify the completeness and accuracy of the revenues and other significant accounts presented on the financial statement using IDEA, CAAT/ACL (data analysis) tool.

• Examine and evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of Assertion Level, Entity Level and General IT Controls within the Company’s business environments and financial systems. This involves benchmarking the design, implementation, and operating effectiveness of identified controls to industry standards such as COBiT and ISO27001/2.

LEAD, RISK AND CONTROL 02/2017 to 08/2018

Rainoil Limited Victoria Island, Lagos State.

• Champion the implementation of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework across the Group.

• Develop and obtain approval from the Board Risk Management Committee on risk policies, principles, process, and reporting standards that define the Company’s risk strategy and appetite in line with its business objectives.

• Ensure there are skills and understanding of risk management, risk appetite, and risk governance with emerging risk trends.

• Ensure that processes are in place to facilitate the identification, measurement, assessment, monitoring, and controlling of risks in the Company.

• Provide Management with practical, cost-effective recommendations for mitigating risks as discussed with business and process owners.

• Promote risk awareness and provide education and training on risk management. Conducted company-wide Risk and Control Self-Assessment and develop and maintain a comprehensive Risk Register

• Provide assurance on the effectiveness of risk treatments and related control activities.

• .Drive the annual review and update of the Company’s risk management policies and procedures.

• Extensively involved in testing of financial, operational and IT controls to mitigate the various risks and ensured the control objectives are achieved.

• Coordinated annual testing of internal controls over financial reporting and applicable Framework such as COSO.

SENIOR ASSOCIATE 02/2016 to 01/2017

Ernst & Young Marina, Lagos State.

• Provided Audit services and led several SOX testing, review engagement for major multinational Companies. lead several audit engagements on ERP Systems and process documentation, Sox testing and walk through testing, financial reporting systems and General analytical review procedures.

• Lead Statutory audit engagement from initiation to reporting. I also developed, maintained, and managed detailed project plans, tasks, deliverables and resource allocation necessary for successful closure of audit assignments.

• Prepared financial statements for various multinational Companies in compliance with International Financial reporting requirements (IFRS), posting of adjustments to comply with requirements of US GAPP and ensuring prompt reporting to parents Companies.

• Worked with engagement Manager and Partner in identification and reporting of Significant auditing findings and timely communication to Management and Board level executives.

• Supervision and Coordination of Junior team members of several audit and review engagements by way of mentorship and coaching.

AUDIT SENIOR 11/2012 to 01/2016

KPMG Professional Services Victoria Island, Lagos State.

• Financial statement audit of about 23 clients in financial services industry such Banks, Microfinance, Asset Managements, Pension Fund, and Insurance companies.

• Business process documentation of various processes such as treasury process, Loan and deposit process, credit management processes, financial reporting processes, risk identification and test of controls within identified processes.

• Financial reporting, performance analysis and budgeting of 60% of audit clients.

• Revenue and income assurance using CAT, IDEA, and other KPMG sampling methods.

• Test of internal control over financial reporting (ICFR), Design and test of operating effectiveness of controls on significant class of accounting transactions.

• GAP analysis, IFRS project implementation for 50% of audited clients.

• Review and Preparation of financial statements for Banks, Assets Management Companies and Pension fund.

• Regulatory requirement compliance such as Central bank of Nigeria, Nigeria deposit insurance corporation, Tax and revenue authorities, Security and Exchange Commission etc.

• Review of Interest expenses, Interest Income, COT for banks, Funds and Assets under Management, Insurance contract obligations, Fixed Assets, Nostro and Vostro, and other line items of financial statements. EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Computer Science 06/2010

University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria

Generation USA Feb-July 2023

IT specialist Cyber security bootcamp Program

ACA (Associate, Chartered Accountant,Nigeria)

AAT( Associate, Accounting Technician, Nigeria)

CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor)

CRISC(Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control) SAP FI – General Ledger & Annual Accounts with SAP S/4HANA (brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany).

• Ranked in Top 2% of class

LANGUAGES

English Professional Working Proficiency

AFFILIATIONS

Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Alumni, KPMG and Ernst and Young Nigeria

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria

Generation USA Alumni

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