Experience

City Of Guelph
• Canada
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee
• Internal Audit Specialist

  • Jul 2022 - Present


Essex County Council

• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Auditor, Internal Audit & Counter Fraud

  • Sep 2019 - Jun 2022

  Essex County Council is one of the largest county councils in England, providing services in the areas of Children and Families, Culture and Communities, Customer and Corporate, Economic Development, Education and skills, Environment and Waste, Health and Adult Social Care, Infrastructure (including highways maintenance, street lighting, traffic regulation and road safety, parking, cycling and public rights of way); and Finance, Commercial and Traded Services (including financial administration and management, comprising preparation and management of the revenue and capital budgets, funding and investment, traded services and strategic commercial partnerships). The Council forms the upper tier of local government within Essex. The above role supports the delivery of internal audit activity within the Council and to external clients by undertaking complex risk-based end to end audits, making proportionate and appropriate recommendations to improve the internal control environment, effectively communicating findings and recommendations to auditees, including Senior Leaders. Show less



Preston City Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Internal Auditor

  • Jul 2017 - Aug 2019

  Preston City Council spends more than £100million a year providing a range of public services to approx 65,000 households with support from its various internal departments such as Waste management, Environment, Housing, Legal, Tax, Planning, Transport, Environmental health, Pollution, Animal welfare etc. Preston City Council is one of the largest employers in the area. The Auditor assists the Chief Internal Auditor in providing an adequate and effective internal audit of the Council’s accounting records and control systems. Show less



National Audit Office

• Mongolia
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Audit Principal

  • May 2015 - Jan 2016

  The National Audit Office scrutinises public spending for Parliament, providing public audit perspectives that help Parliament hold government to account and improve public services. The NAO audits around £1 trillion of spending and revenue across 442 accounts. My current role is Lead auditor for Top level budgets of Ministry of Defence, within the Delivering Major Projects cluster. Some of the highlights of the role are: • Lead for Planning and Interim audit on, AIR (Top Level Budget holder), Defence Infrastructure Organisation, Pay for Military and Civilian personnel, Defence Electronics & Components Agency, Defence Support Group • Team member for Royal Air Force Museum, Oil & Pipeline Agency, Ministry of Defence Resource Account and various value for money studies for various Government departments and agencies. • Coaching and development of graduate trainees Show less



Chartered Accountancy practice

• Accounting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Audit Manager

  • May 2014 - May 2015

  • Managing, performing and control of assignments in accordance with the Firm’s standards. • Conducting appropriate fact finding, planning, preparation and development of necessary testing strategies to ensure effective completion of work. • Execution of risk based audit reviews, assisting in the development of successful controls frameworks and contributing to the on-going development of the audit programme and risk based audit methodology. • Organising and managing a small client portfolio for provision of advice and guidance on risk management, control governance and non-audit assurance engagements. • Assisting and advising new trainees on completion of working papers, files and ad hoc support. • Conducting effective debrief meetings, producing high quality written reports. • Completing all work within agreed timescales and budgets, and to the appropriate quality standard. • Build relationships with clients and identify potential additional work opportunities at existing clients. Show less



A Consulting practice

• France
• Advertising Services

• Financial Controller / Consultant

  • Jun 2011 - May 2014

   Delivered Brand strategic objectives and financial targets.  Proactively participated in the Business Review process through the provision of management information and highlighting performance areas of concern, to support the financial planning and reporting process by challenging business plan and budget submissions.  Coached and developed the financial skills of General Managers Utilise benchmarking to challenge cost processes and co-ordinated initiatives for improving performance and cost bases.  Monitor and review projects to ensure business financial hurdles are met for all relevant projects.  Act as a 'bridge' between the central and financial functions. Show less



An Accounting practice

• Manager Accounting & Business Consultant

  • Feb 2010 - May 2011

  • Completion of all compliance work and external reporting to scheduled time frames. • Dealt with smooth handling of transition phase by ensuring clients’ work is not affected and the firm’s level of service not only remain same but improve. • Successfully resolved numerous ‘serious’ client conflicts and prevented the loss of business and complaint to external ombudsman. • Successful implementation of fee recovery procedures which resulted in increased revenues. • Managed the implementation of new systems in order to improve the level of services clients get reducing the running cost of organisation by streamlining different systems and processes and contributed to the development of the practice. • Effectively collaborated with all team members; ensured each piece of work is financially viable, working with partner and staff as necessary to support decisions so that profitability is monitored and delivered. • Successfully achieved broad range of strategic targets which included new product pricing, invoice recovery, accurate cash flow forecasting, support, assessment of business performance, drive operational change, finance/strategic analysis, business development through proactive client marking/liaison. Show less



The Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd.

• Senior Accountant

  • Dec 2005 - Jan 2010

  • The team played a critical role within Finance operations, acting as a key contact point for the Group Finance and other accountants spread globally and managed to meet group timetabled deadlines and external compliance work to scheduled time frames. • Tasked with full responsibility of submitting quarterly/annual returns for ONS (Office of National Statistics) for the whole Prudential group. Tight deadlines had to be met. The process involved collating data from various business units spread over the globe. Also served as a contact between ONS and Prudential and resolved the external objections/queries by liaising and educating the accountants. • Dealt with a portfolio of end to end assignments designed to ensure the control environment is operating and that the risks are mitigated. One of these projects was to help in re-design of the process of allocation of central business costs. Another project involved improving the system of allocation of asset management costs by removing accounting/admin layers and direct allocation to the funds these costs related. This required execution and documentation of whole process and agreeing the new process with respective business areas and fund managers whilst keeping it in-line with group policies using best practice. • Re-designed the internal spreadsheets which were in use for internal data gathering and consolidation for various stakeholders reporting exercises. • Revamped of Divided revenue accounts (DRS) for actuaries, quarterly instalment payment (QIP’s) for group tax, intragroup re-insurance elimination process and controlled process for split of monthly bank interest earned by 4,000 plus Prudential’s bank accounts. • Made responsible for authorization and approval process of fund management fee and its allocation to various funds. The user developed applications (UDA’s) had to be SOX compliant for key processes which required having SOX sign-off’s on each and every piece of work. Show less



Accounting Practice

• Mexico
• Accounting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Audit Senior

  • Jun 2003 - Nov 2005

  • Managed a varied & growing portfolio of clients in an efficient manner in order to meet tight deadlines and prepared final accounts, tax computations and completed personal tax returns for a mixture of sole traders, partnerships and small sized limited companies. • Examined financial reporting procedures of potential customers as a part of business development and advised their management on the expected benefits from automation, including process speeding-up, reporting transparency and cost savings. • Negotiated project scope and timeline with potential customers according to their needs, and tailored commercial offers correspondingly. identified business opportunities through review process & made recommendations. • Solely dealt with HMRC on various client investigations and successfully resolved very complicated cases and queries raised and managed to amicably conclude the investigations. • Managed, supervised and delegated a variety of work & contributed to overall development of the juniors identifying and resolving issues as and when they arose. Supported & developed team with the production of its work and build knowledge of clients. Show less