Carlos Eduardo Melendez

● Developed and nurtured client relationships, fostering trust and enabling productive conversations.

● Conducted comprehensive evaluations of clients' policies to assess adherence to industry best practices and compliance
with regulatory requirements.
● Utilized in-depth research and assessment techniques to identify control gaps in processes and procedures.
● Demonstrated meticulous attention to detail by thoroughly documenting audit tests and findings in audit papers, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and other relevant assertions.
● Maintained compliance with federal, state, and local requirements, ensuring adherence to relevant laws and regulations.
● Dealt with complex accounting issues related to consolidation and variable interest entities, revenue recognition, costs, impairment of assets, development costs, intercompany eliminations, goodwill, and waterfall calculations
● Conducted a wide range of audits, including financial, non-profit financial, governmental, and compliance audits,
demonstrating versatility and adaptability in various audit environments.

● Highly involved in project management meetings and provided suggestions on how to improve quality of work and morale
across the team as well as discussion of advanced concepts to be applied

● Trained and mentored junior staff on audit strategies and techniques.

• Evaluated company's policies to determine how well standards adhered to best practices for several clients
• Identified control gaps in processes, procedures and systems through in-depth research and assessment and suggested methods for improvement in over 15 audits
• Completed audit papers by thoroughly documenting audit tests and findings in 15 audits
• Identified management control weaknesses and provided value added suggestions for remediation
• Complied with federal, state and local requirements for over 20 audits
• Evaluated design and operating effectiveness of audit areas
• Complied with established internal procedures by examining reports, processes, and documentation
• Conducted financial, compliance and operational audits.

• Prepared compliance vouchers to determine eligibility of applicants so people can apply for reimbursement in Tu Hogar Renace program
• Performed completeness and compliance reviews of over 200 contractors which added to 40,000 cases completed and more than 120 million dollars reimbursed to contractors related to recovery after hurricane María
• Performed completeness and compliance reviews for Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) related to various states that helped during María disaster relief, resulting in over 10 million dollars reimbursed to related states
• Trained new employees from our company and other sub-contractors
• Completed audit papers by thoroughly documenting audit tests and findings
• Prepared working papers, reports and supporting documentation for audit findings
• Conducted reviews to assess compliance with related laws, policies and regulations.