Auditor

Joseph Bangura

***** *. ***** ****. *-*** Austin, Texas 78753.

512-***-**** ***********@***.***.

Posses a good understanding of IS Audit Process, IT Governance, System and Infrastructural Lifecycle Management, protection of information Asset, Business Processes, IT Management Processes, Enterprise Risk Management which include identification and evaluation of IT Risks and key mitigating controls, experienced with COSO and COBIT standards, and with wide familiarity in good report writing skills and team work individual.

EDUCATION:

Currently online studies for the: Certified Information Systems Auditing (CISA) Examination program, with a Bachelors Degree in Economics from 2000-2004, FourahBay University, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, which has being evaluated recently in the America university educational standard.

Employment History:

Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired.

1100 West 45th Street Austin TX 78756. 12/1/ 2008- Present.

Position: Substitute Staff Teacher.

Work on call needed teaching students from 10-18 years of age who are blind or visually

Impaired, following a prescribed lesson plan and augmenting it with personal stories and

teaching materials and methods.

• Provide input to educational program staff regarding individual student teaching methodology.

• Collaborate with teaching residential staff to optimize delivery of service to residents and serve

as an informal advocate for residents.

• Train students in social, leisure, daily living, and others skills prescribed in students individual

Education Plan (IEP) and provide intensive instruction in some aspect of the expanded core

Curriculum during the school year.

• Prepare objectively stated present level of functioning reports and /or quarterly reports addressing

IEP area assigned.

Phillips & Cohen Associates Limited. (Professional Staffing Company)

3412 Forest Park Worthington, Ohio 43225. 11/15/2004 - 8/27/2008.

Position: Internal Auditor

• Assisted with planning and performing independent audit and special reviews of company functions, business units, contracts and other activities to ensure reliability and integrity of information, proper recording of transactions, safeguarding of assets, compliance with policies and procedures, achievement of operational goal and objectives, and effective and efficient use of resources.

• Reviewed SAS 70 reports (Type II) to ensure that service organization has adequately tested and reported issues of concern to user organization.

• Tested and evaluated adequacy of general computer controls to ensure conformity with COBIT framework.

• Suggested recommendations to remediate control weaknesses and monitored implementation of suggested controls.

• Assisted IT general controls in connection with program development, change management, computer operations, security and configurations management and Identified risk areas and key control points.

• Developed Risk and Control Matrix (RCM) Documents for Business process areas such as Network Security, Database security and Change management and application development.

• Performed configuration management audits to ensure that changes are planned, scheduled, implemented and documented to reduce risk of cost overrun.

• Assisted management in designing documenting and implementing processes and procedures to improve control effectiveness. Conduct a variety of internal audit and offer process improvement solutions aimed at assisting management in attaining their goal and meeting their objectives.

• Assist in managing the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program, including participation in the testing of internal control and tracking of issues and action plan.

• Knowledgeable in business resumption, project management, security, computer operations, technology risk assessments and financial/compliance/business processes.

• Performs audits and audit related projects to include development of audit programs and questionnaires, performing fieldwork, documenting results, and developing relevant and accurate conclusions and recommendations; and tests and evaluates control, compliance and performance.

• In dept knowledge of internal audit methodology such as internal controls, fraud indicators, risk assessment, work paper documentation. Prepares audit finding indicating the condition, cause, effects, and risk; proposes audit recommendations; and, communicate such with the auditor-in–charge, audit manager, subject matter experts, or other appropriate stakeholders and in a timely manner.

• Assisted in performing financial, operational and compliance audits to evaluate compliance, effectiveness and efficiency of corporate and business unite processes, policies and procedures.

• Extensive experience in developing and presenting a quality control Audit report plan to

Management and banking auditing experience.

Professional Accomplishments:

• Serve as an addition Subject Matter Expert (SME) related to Sarbanes-Oxley regulations and requirements. Perform all aspect of Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance efforts including the evaluation and preparation of procedural documentation, scoping, materiality, ongoing monitoring, testing and remediation.

• Involved in tested and evaluated adequacy of general computer controls to ensure conformity with COBIT framework.

• Ability to plan, organize and execute an internal Audit program that measures evaluate and

identifies needed enhancement in managerial, prevent fraud and maximize operational efficiency.

• Ability to identify, analyses, and solves complex issues quickly with logic and reason.

• Assisted with the development of project plans, methodologies and clients proposal as needed Provides a full range of services including the development of internal audit strategies plan, re-engineer existing internal audit operations, provide specialized resources of completely outsourcers the internal audit functions.

• Gathers background information and assists in establishing audit objectives and identifying the scope of work to be performed; prepares audit planning documents to include planning conference memos and audit work programs; and participates in entrance conferences with agency management to discuss audit objectives and scope.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING:

Proficient MS office Suite; MS Word, Excel, Access, Power-Point, Outlook, and Visio. Familiarity in the use of calculator, facsimile, scanner, printer, photocopies machines and internet navigation. Working experience in QuickBooks, MAS90, Peachtree accounting software, people software and Lacerte tax software, and system Skills such as; Change Control Manager, SQL, SQL Server, SUN OS 5.6, MS Project, ACL (Audit Command Language), Siebel, Oracle.

Certified in computer Networking, A+ Certification license number COMP001003091830.

ACTIVITIES /AFFILIATIONS:

Supervisor of Students’ Press (editing student articles and campus journal) Recipients of a superior Award the Ethics, student Associate pastor, and several individual and group awards. Soccer team captain and cabinet member of the college student union committee.

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