Tyler Blanco

Head of the Consumer Technology Audit team, responsible for:

• Leading the execution of application, platform, and integrated audits.
• Overseeing executive reporting, risk assessments, and monitoring emerging technologies and projects.
• Successfully scaling and growing a team enhancing operational efficiency and audit metrics.
• Validating issues and regulatory priorities.
• Managing the overall execution of the Consumer Technology audit plan.
• Supervising a team of IT audit managers and staff within the Consumer Technology audit portfolio.
• Supporting the audit teams for Consumer and Small Business Banking and Consumer Lending Lines of Business (LOB).

Responsible for:

• Leading risk-based technology audits, including cloud and cybersecurity.
• Ensuring regulatory compliance and overseeing Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA) audit programs.
• Providing consultative services for business and technology.
• Planning, executing, and completing the annual IT audit plan.
• Reporting directly to the Chief Audit Executive and presenting IT audit results, updates, and technology and risk assessments to the Audit Committee on a monthly basis.
• Managing external auditors and federal and state examiners.
• Building out the internal IT audit function from its previous outsourced state.

Responsible for:

• Managing operational reviews, SOX compliance, IT audits, Cloud Security, and risk assessments for the DBS and Sling businesses.
• Planning and managing operational, compliance, security, and IT audits, and presenting audit reports to company executives.
• Overseeing the IT SOX program and coordinating with external auditors to maximize audit reliance and reduce costs.
• Leading the annual risk assessment process and developing the IT audit plan.
• Mentoring, coaching, and conducting performance appraisals for the IT audit team.

Responsible for:

• Leading and managing IT audits across the enterprise.
• Creating Risk and Control Matrices and scoping IT audits.
• Executing fieldwork and IT audit testing to support the audit process using the TeamMate electronic workpaper system.
• Reviewing audit staff testing to provide feedback and ensure testing quality.
• Drafting audit reports and leading audit exit meetings with clients.

Responsible for:

• Acting as the auditor in charge for projects across the bank, card, infrastructure, and digital spaces.
• Managing audits across multiple lines of business to ensure compliance with SOX, PCI, and banking laws and regulations.
• Leading IT risk assessments, project compliance, and governance projects.
• Leading the TeamMate pilot audit and the TeamMate adoption and transition team.

Responsible for:

• Leading engagement teams during SOX compliance, SOC reporting, and Financial Statement audit IT control testing for clients in the financial, retail, entertainment, and healthcare industries.
• Managing several IT advisory engagements, including SOC reporting, SOX compliance, and Financial Statement Audit, with a focus on financial services, retail, and healthcare.
• Assisting in a major FISMA and Accreditation project to help a large company meet government regulations and acquire the Authority to Operate under government regulation.