Accomplished business professional with 3 years of experience in Audit
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Consultant 2- Internal Audit & Financial Advisory
Protiviti
11.2022 - Current
Assisted in controls for clients in a variety of different industries by performing testing on several focus areas: risk management, logical and physical access controls, monitoring and control activities, system operations, change management, risk mitigation, and vendor management, etc.
Supervised and planned client engagements around Information Technology General Controls (ITGCs) for Internal Audit support engagements and provided support around ITGC assessments for financial audit clients.
Performed complex workpaper preparation and documentation from an analysis of control activities, drawing logical conclusions to help secure customer data.
Identified and assessed gaps in client processes and controls to help them optimize their efficiency and reduce overall risk
Updated the Risk Control Matrix (RCM) when point for improvement and exceptions were identified during testing and suggested mitigation strategies for clients to improve their overall processes and/or strategies
Risk Assurance & Advisory Services Associate
Armanino LLP
08.2021 - 10.2022
Performed audits, reviews, compilations and various audit and/or consulting engagements
Interpreted and analyzed audit evidence and financial statement data and drew logical conclusions
Exercised professional skepticism in the critical assessment of audit evidence
Identified, assessed and documented controls and weaknesses in client information management systems
Thoroughly evaluated assigned areas of fieldwork and identified potential points for improvement
Prepared clear and accurate workpapers
Utilized Suralink, Tugboat, and VGS platforms to review client evidence.
Risk Assurance & Advisory Services Intern
Armanino LLP
07.2020 - 09.2020
Gained real-world exposure to financial and IT audits, reviews, compilations and projects
Learned the client's platform structure, security and software
Learned the client's system and control environment and how it impacts their associated customer users
Learned the client's non-IT related controls including general controls (e.g
Hiring controls) and transactional controls (e.g
Processing controls such as reconciliations).
Accounting Intern
Align Technology (Invisalign)
05.2019 - 09.2019
Utilized Blackline and SAP software to prepare Account Reconciliations
Audited Quarterly checklists and ensured that Align employees were completing them in a timely manner
Prepared amortization schedules with given data
Assisted our Global Travel manager with the Hotel Request for Proposal (RFP) project and contacted Align employees to discuss preferred hotels and their corresponding rates
Reviewed company financial statements
Created welcome documents for Align Offices in several countries
Updated links and documents on Align's Global Travel Webpage
Familiar with excel and several functions including SUM/MIN/MAX, Vlookup, filtering, sort, conditional formatting, pivot table, SUM/COUNT/AVG(IF).
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Information Systems
President's Education Award for outstanding excellence 2017
High school varsity soccer league champions all four years 2013-2017
Leadership Experience
Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, San Luis Obispo, CA, 10/2018 to 01/2021
Participated in various philanthropic and educational events, Contribute ideas in meetings and motivate membersCal Poly Week of Welcome (WOW leader), San Luis Obispo, 04/2018 to 06/2018
Completed an intensive 10 week leadership training program
Led a group of 15 incoming students during a week of orientation programs
Planned and implemented team building, social, educational and awareness activities
National Honors Society (Peer Tutor), San Jose, CA, 10/2015, 04/2017
Explained essential concepts in AP Calculus to students
Clarified uncertainties and presented practice problems to work on
Timeline
Consultant 2- Internal Audit & Financial Advisory
Protiviti
11.2022 - Current
Risk Assurance & Advisory Services Associate
Armanino LLP
08.2021 - 10.2022
Risk Assurance & Advisory Services Intern
Armanino LLP
07.2020 - 09.2020
Accounting Intern
Align Technology (Invisalign)
05.2019 - 09.2019
Bachelor of Science - Business Information Systems