Independent Contract Auditor & Consultant

GROSS IKS CONSULTING bietet unabhängige und objektive Prüfungs- und Beratungsleistungen für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen an. Mit meiner über 12jährigen internationalen Berufserfahrung in den Bereichen der externen und internen Prüfung helfe ich Unternehmen bei der Implementierung und Optimierung von Internen Kontroll Systemen. Ich unterstütze die Geschäftleitung bei der Erreichung ihrer Ziele, indem ich mit einem systematischen und zielgerichteten Ansatz die Effektivität des Risikomanagements, der Kontrollen und der Führungs- und Überwachungsprozesse bewerte und diese zur verbessern helfe.

GROSS IKS CONSULTING provides small and mid-size companies independent, objective assurance and consulting activities. It helps organizations with the implementation and optimization of internal control systems and supports management to accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes.

Industry Experience: Public Accounting; Financial Institutions Aircraft/Aviation; Automotive, Audit/Consulting, Public Administration

Functional Experience: Internal and External Audit, Internal Controls, Sarbanes Oxley Act
Fraud Examination, Detection & Prevention, Foreign Currupt Pratices Act, US GAAP/IFRS, Corporate Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, General Risk Assessment, Business Process Analysis
Financial Statement Analysis, Due Diligence, Audit Coverage Planning, Legal & Compliance,
Quality Control/Assurance

Systems Experience: SAP R/3, Hyperion Financial Management, TeamMate Suite R8 (PWC Audit Software), MS Visio / MS Project

Qualifications: Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Six Sigma Greenbelt

Education : Diplom-Volkswirt - (equiv. MBA, Economics and Business Administration) University of Bonn, Germany

Languages: German, Native - English, Fluent - French, Basic

Relevant Business Experience:

- Audit Senior Manager with significant experience in auditing and corruption detection, SOX compliance and testing and industry experience on the sectors of aviation, automotive and consulting with responsibilities for teams up to 6 persons.

- Responsible for general risk assessment and development of coverage plan and related audit programs based on internationally accepted audit principles and global best practices with focus on the following areas:
- Operations: focus on business process analysis in the areas of Integrated Supply Chain, Sales & Receivables, Inventory Management, and HR
- Finance: focus on business process analysis in the areas of Inventory, AR, AP, Capital Expenditures, Tooling, Payroll, Month End Close
- Legal & Compliance: focus on Sarbanes-Oxley Act (documentation and testing), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Export laws & regulations.

- Participated in group wide projects such as due diligence, compliance plans (Sarbanes-Oxley testing and documentation and reports; Foreign-Corrupt-Practices-Act), dispositions as well as internal projects like Six Sigma projects, Kaizen workshops and Business Assessment Processes

- Assisted in the preparation, presentation, and monitoring of annual budgets/forecasts for Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management for a US headquartered multi industry company. Coordinated, prepared and executed scheduling for all types of audits for the two U.S. locations and the international audit office in Germany.

- Created and developed an Audit Program Change Management Process.

- Responsible for implementation of identified control and operational improvements. Provided reports on audit results and recommendations, monitored reporting of implementation of audit commitments to corporate management.

Organisation, Management & Behörden
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Certified Internal Auditor (CIA); Certified Six Sigma Greenbelt