SHANA CRONIN
Cincinnati,OH
Summary
Meticulous IT Governance, Risk And Audit Leader with skills in meeting strict deadlines while maintaining quality standards. Excellent technical and analytical skills. First-rate problem-solving abilities and am quick to identify problem areas, diagnose root causes and implement corrective actions.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director Finance Systems
Paycor
09.2022 - Current
- Set clear departmental objectives and developed effective strategies to achieve targeted goals.
- Managed administration and operations of finance systems supporting accounting, procure-to-pay and invoice-to-cash processes
- Maintained Finance Systems to roadmap through partnership with finance and IT
- Enhanced internal control systems and procedures to mitigate risk and support opportunities.
- Introduced software tools and process improvements to mitigate loss and drive operational growth.
- Assisted with recruiting, interviewing and hiring of multiple team members.
Vice President
Fifth Third Bank, Business Controls Group
03.2020 - 07.2022
- Governance & Compliance – Technology, Manage technical team of 5 responsible for technology process risk and control self-assessments
- Lead regulatory examinations, ensuring readiness through requests and examination walkthroughs
- Oversee remediation for regulatory findings and issue closure processes for Information Security
- Engage with regulators during key meetings and present updates as well as deep dives during examinations
- Drove Lean process automation initiatives, partnering with leaders to simplify governance and controls testing
- Partnered with 3 lines of defense to define remediation plan and direct process of closure packages for 5 MRAs
- Completed 25 Technology Process RCSAs on time by collaborating with process/control owners and 2LoD risk partners to define scope and align schedules with internal audit, regulatory exams and testing CoE activities, communicating gaps with process owners and aggregating status information for leadership
- Reduced information security issues ~25% by building collaboration between audit and Issue owners.
Global Finance IT Controller
GE Global Operations
02.2016 - 02.2020
- Secured $8M+ of cost avoidance while deploying analytic tool and roadmap detecting access risks across disparate systems; minimized disruptions and costs by augmenting and integrating existing data and tools
- Brought in to execute strategy and roadmap for deployment of company-wide functional segregation of duties program and lead product development of new analysis tool
- Managed remediation project for optimal sequencing and pacing of activities
- Facilitated design sessions with all GE businesses
- Partnered with Identify and Access Management team to validate privileged access and segregation of duties
- Enforced information security risks across broad portfolio of business processes and systems
- Handled seamless deployment of RPA solution, automating preventative access risk assessments.
Global IT Controller
GE Power
04.2011 - 02.2016
- Designed and deployed IT controls for GE’s largest and most complex businesses
- Oversaw IT Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for GE
- Energy ($45B)
- Applied key systems to regulatory requirements
- Led software governance initiatives regarding compliance and license agreements
- Researched and analyzed regulations while building partnerships to boost awareness and stay ahead of compliance strategies
- Worked cross-functionally to assess and manage risk areas
- Delivered multiple concurrent data privacy and IT governance initiatives on time, on budget, and to requirements
- Operationalized controls and implemented continuous monitoring programs, boosting overall quality and efficiencies by designing a database password compliance dashboard and programmer access
- Developed an information security playbook focused on aligning requirements with risk and profile, providing prescriptive guidance to achieve compliance
- Identified $1M in cost savings by closely managing software license compliance process
- Spearheaded method to aggregate and normalize installation records, streamlining process of comparing software pools business-wide
- Engaged over 10K users re-harvesting unused software and recovery software licenses.
EY, Senior Manager
Risk Advisory Services
11.2003 - 02.2010
- Worked at a variety of clients, which allowed for expansion of IT and business acumen
- Deeply rooted on engagements that managed assessment/improvement of business process and internal control environments - Managed work at clients from multiple industries ranging from software development, consulting, financial services, insurance, and manufacturing
- This included procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, financial statement close, identity and access management, change management, vulnerability management, and IT operations processes
- Consistently promoted on track or ahead of schedule, starting as Senior Associate and departing as Senior Manager
- Acted as advocate and leader within for staff and senior resources and oversaw performance management and recruiting processes.
Team Lead
Bearing Point
- Air Force Enterprise Data Warehouse Project
Senior Associate
KPMG, LLP
Education
Bachelor of Science / Bachelor of Arts (BSBA) - Accounting, Management Information Systems
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OHSkills
- Identity and Access Management
- Role Based Access Control
- Software Asset Management
- IT Governance
- IT Risk Management
- Internal Audit Planning
- Sarbanes-Oxley and Regulatory Compliance
- ERP - Oracle r12, Oracle Fusion, SAP r3, NetSuite
Certification
IT Risk Management | Defining & Measuring Metrics | Data Privacy & Protection | IT Governance | IT Audit
Regulatory Compliance | Business Intelligence | Data Analysis | Process Improvement | Security, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
Timeline
Director Finance Systems
Paycor
09.2022 - Current
Vice President
Fifth Third Bank, Business Controls Group
03.2020 - 07.2022
Global Finance IT Controller
GE Global Operations
02.2016 - 02.2020
Global IT Controller
GE Power
04.2011 - 02.2016
EY, Senior Manager
Risk Advisory Services
11.2003 - 02.2010
Team Lead
Bearing Point
Senior Associate
KPMG, LLP
Bachelor of Science / Bachelor of Arts (BSBA) - Accounting, Management Information Systems
The Ohio State University
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