Dana Rusnic

• Streamlined SOX compliance across global operations, enhancing audit efficiency. Led audit communication with CFO, Audit Committee and external auditors, ensuring transparency and compliance.
• Managed internal audit department through performance of all operational and SOX audits. Managed IT Audit outsourcing relationship and testing efforts.
• Comprehensive and thorough understanding of integration and crossover of business and ITGC controls to ensure appropriate risks are addressed during the design, testing and mitigating stages.
• Collaborated with business and IT process owners to streamline and lean controls, review processes for consistency across locations to gain efficiency.
• Consistently challenged audit test plans to reduce testing efforts where possible, collaborating positively with external audits to reduce scope, while maintaining compliance.
• Developed enhanced SOC1 reporting for completeness.
• Consultative project member with company go-live of Microsoft 365 ERP to ensure proper controls in place.
• Internal Chairperson of ‘Invacare Gives Back' Committee (charity working with outside organizations and sponsoring employee events).

• Interim IT Manager, Audit Manager and Project Manager for global banks, improving internal controls and compliance. Managed audit team performing IT audits, reviewed testing, and provided audit results to management. Provided MRA and risk identification assistance.
• Project Manager evaluating ASC606 implementation, enhancing revenue recognition standards. Managed project team with tasks and timelines, held meetings to understand revenue streams and risks, developed scoping mechanism for contracts, documented issues, reviewed existing internal controls and created new controls to evaluate impacts and ensure compliance.
• Interim IT Audit Analyst ensuring ITGC SOX compliance. Assisted with PCI reporting and other compliance and audit tasks.
• Performed control effectiveness and SOX testing for multiple clients. Tested business process and ITGC internal controls, reported testing and remediation to management, communicated best practices and improvements for streamlining and enhancing business and IT processes, internal controls and audit test plans.

• Managed audit team over performance of financial and operational audits, improving internal control effectiveness, recommending process improvements and reducing risks.
• Communicated audit findings to various levels of management, process owners and external auditors.

• Achieved global SOX compliance annually through management of business and IT auditors performing SOX testing, audit scoping, planning, control testing, project management and reporting to management, Audit Committee and external auditors, enhancing company-wide controls and efficiency.
• Assessed potential impact, risk, financial statement materiality, and mitigation of audit findings to company's control environment and financial statements.
• Developed a top-down, risk-based audit approach, focusing on materiality, specific risks, and audit history to reduce key controls and testing scope by 40% to increase efficiency.
• Managed the onboarding of multiple acquired subsidiaries into existing SOX Compliance requirements.
• Worked to reduce SOX deficiencies reported to the Audit Committee and Board of Directors 80%-90% through management remediation and re-testing efforts.
• Built responsive, efficient, and positive working relationships with management to implement reasonable remediation plans, ensuring control deficiencies are resolved appropriately and timely.

• Executed multiple audits for financial, manufacturing, health care, and non-profit clients through audit planning, evaluating controls and reporting results to the audit team and client. Oversaw audit engagements, requiring the management of staff auditors.