Senior Internal Auditor
Resume:
Joseph Peck
Apartment ***
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87111
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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Big 4 Auditor. Senior Internal Auditor. External, Internal Auditor. Risk Based Operational, Financial, Compliance Audits. SOX Section 404 Reviews. 10 Years Experience. Banking. Healthcare. Consulting. Not - for - Profit Sectors. Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting. Currently studying for Masters of Business Administration, Anticipate Graduation in 2009. Studying for certification as a CIA and CFE. Computer Proficient. Bilingual: English, Mandarin Chinese. Organizer. Communicator. Presenter. Public Speaker. Writer. Interpersonal Skills. Arbitrator. Negotiator. Travel Internationally. Self Motivated.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Internal Auditor, Sun Healthcare Group, Inc., Albuquerque, NM 2007 – 2008
• Supervised the restructuring of Sarbanes - Oxley documentation and testing process
• Created, initiated best practices in regards to non - SOX work
• Provided guidance in using work paper database, TeamMate, and controls database, Movaris, software
• Created the department’s documentation standard for flowcharts, walkthroughs, and narratives
• Identified key controls and created methodologies to test those controls for compliance
• Trained corporate employees on the nature of internal controls
• Created, initiated the Internal Audit department’s risk assessment and risk based approach sampling and testing methodologies to conform to AS5
• Created internal control and SAS 70 presentations to be used as learning tools by employees of other departments
• Planned, performed, and supervised testing of financial audits. Created the standardized audit programs to be used by all staff auditors
• Made multiple presentations of all testing results to all levels of management throughout the corporation
Assurance Staff Auditor II, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Salt Lake City, UT 2006 - 2007
• Assisted in the planning and performance of audit work for integrated and non - integrated financial statement engagements; Reviewed, coached work completed by new staff auditors
• Performed year - end and interim auditing procedures for integrated and non - integrated audit clients
• Planned, performed, and supervised testing of Sarbanes - Oxley 404 control compliance
• Reviewed the client's walkthroughs, narratives, and other internal documents used to test process controls
Staff Auditor II, Ernst & Young, Cincinnati, OH 2004 - 2006
• Performed detailed client audits to assure compliant with standards of Sarbanes – Oxley
• Audit work consists of mapping departmental processes, assessing control risk, and testing controls
• Recruited into risk assessment consulting group conducting Sarbanes - Oxley audits for multi-million dollar companies that included Dayton Power and Light, Cincinnati Bell, General Cable of Northern Kentucky and Honda in Columbus Ohio
• Completed documentation for various departments and processes within each company
• Created internal controls matrices and performed control testing per these matrices
• Contributed insight from prior experience to peers, providing alternative perspectives on auditing processes while contributing to timeliness, accuracy and quality of completed audits
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Assistant Auditor II, Provident Bank, Cincinnati, OH 2003 – 2004
• Hired into 25 member Audit Department responsible for conducting compliance and up to $200MM in financial audits for Provident Bank's Commercial and Treasury departments
• Conducted high-risk audits following the Sarbanes - Oxley Compliance requirements to maintain integrity of data
• Communicated audit progress and findings to department supervisor throughout audit process
Senior Royalty Auditor, United Media, Division of E. W. Scripps, Cincinnati, OH 2001 - 2002
• Responsible for auditing of financial records critical to $15MM syndicated advertising licensing company
• Traveled extensively, communicating with offices in New York and Japan
• Audited compliance with business contracts, recomputed royalty rates, determined accurate reporting of syndicated print and TV advertising and verified royalties payable to United Media with values between $100,000 and $2MM per account
• Identified errors of up to $100,000 in unreported royalties. Assessed multi - million dollars in liquidated damage; Assessed interest and reporting pay histories
• Generated significant levels of revenue for world’s largest syndicated advertising licensing company
Assistant Auditor, State Auditor’s Office of Ohio, Cincinnati, OH 1998 - 2001
• Audited federally and state funded cities, villages, townships, fire districts and school systems with budgets between $700,000 and $20MM
• Member of three assigned to nine month $20MM Cincinnati Public School District auditing project with exceptionally high volume of data
• Examined payroll, disbursements, fixed assets, accrued wages and benefits, student expenses, food services, debt and cash reconciliation data; Accurately completed high-volume project within deadline
• Department received letters from clients congratulating this team for outstanding performance
• Utilize new technology to organize accounting systems and reduce auditing costs
• Interfaced with clients at all levels of the organization, from accounting clerks to CFOs, Boards of Trustees, Commissioners, Mayors, Police and Fire Chiefs
EDUCATION
Currently studying for Masters of Business Administration, Anticipate graduation in 2009, University of Phoenix, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 1998
General course work, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 1988 - 1990
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Missionary, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, Taipei, Taiwan 1990 - 1992
• Leadership experience, conducting weekly meetings with large groups, maintaining goals, and training new missionaries
• Fluency in Mandarin Chinese language
• Volunteer community service projects
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