Robert Marcon

• Focused on consulting practice for prestigious accounting firms, as a Risk Advisory and Internal Audit Consultant performing internal audits, SOX and IPO readiness projects, and risk management and fraud assessments.
• Experience primarily with manufacturing, bio-tech, cryptocurrency, financial services, and retail clients in the United States and International Subsidiaries.
• Identified key system reports and gathered documentation to support parameters and configurations
• Reviewed SOC-1 type II reports and assessed the impact of relevant deficiencies of sub-service organizations
• Tested ITGC and application controls

Most recent clients:

- Protagonist Therapeutics (through Robert Half)

- ForgeRock (through DeWinter Group)

- Mitsubishi UFI Financial Group (through KPMG)

- Google (through PwC)

- Midland Credit Management (through Eastridge)

- Samsara (through Crowe)

- Kaiser Permanente (through Rose Int’l)

- Walgreens (through KPMG)

- eHeath Insurance (through Crowe)

- Riot Blockchain (through Ernst & Young)

- SeatGeek (through Connor Group)

- Dataiku (through Connor Group)

- Brilliant Earth (through Connor Group)

- Silicon Valley Bank (through Radiansys)

• Planned and implemented business strategies for executing risk assessments, internal audit and compliance/SOX initiatives for public and private companies.
• Assist clients for SOX readiness through internal controls standardization and rationalization.
• Apply accounting and business knowledge to support processes and systems in order to identify control deficiencies, process gaps, business issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Draft RFPs for other related services including market analysis, customized studies and re-evaluation of SOX key / non-key controls.
• Present audit reports to the Audit Committee and Board of Directors.
• Supervise and mentor team members.
• Lead negotiations with clients on budget and project costs.

Clients: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), The McClatchy Company, and Harmonic

• Responsible to plan, scope, execute, coordinate, lead and supervise Internal Audit and SOX projects for top clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Conduct presentations to client’s Audit Committee
• Evaluate client’s business activities and associated risks to determine regulatory compliance, safeguarding of assets, identification and/or improvement of its systems or financial and operational audits
• Assist clients to be first year SOX readiness
• Managed client’s quarterly certifications and update SOC1/2 reports
• Supervise and mentor team members
• Lead negotiations with clients on budget and project costs

Clients: Lumentum Ops, ShoreTel, SuperMicro, Iovance (former Lion Bio), Monolithic Power Systems (MPS), SMART Tech, Fluidigm, and Castlight

Expectum Careers • Coral Gables, FL

• Performed SOX compliance and special audit projects.
• Acted as liaison with external auditors for SOX requirements.

Client: Del Monte Fresh Produce.

Zing Recruiting • West Palm Beach, FL

• Drove high-quality financial and compliance internal audit projects within expected timeframes for client's domestic and International subsidiaries.
• Conducted risk assessments and identified internal controls in place to mitigate identified risks.
• Prepared timely audit reports for executive management, the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors.
• Acted as liaison with external auditors for SOX requirements and direct assistance (PwC).

Client: Zimmer Biomet

Experis Finance • Miami, FL

• Performed SOX compliance and internal audit projects.

Clients: World Fuel Services, Florida Power & Light, and Next Era Energy

Advisory Financial Group • Ft Lauderdale, FL

• Performed SOX compliance and audit projects

Client: Secor Holdings.

• Assisted Senior Director in preparing the global (LATAM and Asia) annual audit plan, and risk assessment of the company’s locations, business processes, and joint ventures (approx 3 billion in annual revenue)
• Planned, conducted, executed, and monitored financial and operational internal audits in accordance with professional and industry standards
• Led and assisted with the design and implementation of key controls of Company’s worldwide locations key financial processes
• Assessed the effectiveness and efficiency of internal controls, the reliability and accuracy of data, and the adequacy of controls over segregation of duties, safeguarding of corporate assets, and corporate governance
• Performed walkthroughs and documented key business processes in flowcharts and/ or narratives
• Liaison with the external auditors (KPMG / PwC)
• Assisted in testing the company’s compliance program of application controls and ITGC
• Delivered presentations to business and executive management and provided input to the Audit Committee
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Team supervision and mentor new staff members.

• Assisted Director in preparing and executing the domestic and international (France, Netherlands, UK, and Germany) Company’s annual SOX compliance plan (approx.12 billion in annual revenue) and developed the ongoing procedures for maintenance of company internal controls
• Assessed control points for determining key and mitigating controls and identified opportunities for improvement
• Designed testing procedures to identify and evaluate business and operational risk exposure
• Conducted tests of key controls, communicated the results of the review, both orally and written as well as monitor management’s completion of agreed upon actions
• Communicated control deficiencies, and recommended remediation action plans to Management.
• Performed walkthroughs of high-risk processes and assessed impacts of changes on overall control assessment
• Maintained process narratives documentation and key control matrix (RCM) of global locations and standardized processes across locations
• IT Audits: Application Security and Change Management
• Assisted in the implementation of ERP Oracle E-Business (version 11.i)

• Assisted Director to evaluate and test the effectiveness of Company’s internal controls based on SOX requirements, documented testing results, communicated to Management control deficiencies, and assisted with remediation action plans
• Assisted External Audit in the interim and year-end audit preparation.

• Conducted operational and financial audits and developed recommendations for improvement
• Prepared written reports to Senior Management and Audit Committee based on audit results
• Recommended solutions to issues identified during audits
• Conducted meetings to review audit results with Management
• Assisted with the identification and evaluation of the Company’s risk areas and provided key input for the annual audit plan
• Maintained internal control programs and documentation based on requirements under Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
• Executed audit programs and tested internal controls
• Performed special projects and analyses of company operations as requested by Management and Audit Committee.

• Conducted and supervised moderately and complex engagements
• Determined audit scopes, developed audit procedures and prepared audit programs
• Performed and supervised preliminary survey of operations and gathered information of key business risks
• Evaluated adequacy of the controls designed to manage risks
• Documented business processes in narratives, and flowcharts
• Discussed strengths and opportunities for improvement with Management and developed recommendations for improvement
• Delegated tasks to the audit team and supervised their daily performance coordinating resources
• Assessed the effectiveness and efficiency of the internal controls of the Company’s business units
• Assisted in preparing the audit scope, objectives and detailed audit programs in the following areas: Marketing, Advertising, Customer Service, Sales, Purchasing, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable
• Prepared the final issues matrix and written audit report, and obtained action plans of audit issues/ findings
• Led close audit meetings., Planed and conducted audit engagements, and lead audit teams during fieldwork in accordance with professional standards and industry regulations.

• Developed and in-charge of new product “Plan Grupo Telecom. Duties and responsibilities related to this position: review budget, coordinate and supervise the IT, Sales, and Marketing departments
• Periodic reports to Management of product’s performance
• Built benchmark reports by collecting and analyzing data to obtain key metrics

• Planed and conducted audit engagements, and lead audit teams during fieldwork in accordance with professional standards and industry regulations.

• Assisted with planning and conducted internal audit engagements related to the Company's healthcare business units.

• Performed operational and financial audits to ensure financial statements are fairly presented in accordance with local accounting standards.