Experience
Every engagement is run by the owner, whose career has been spent in Big Four and national firm risk practices: internal audit, SOX and ICFR, and technology risk engagements for public and high growth technology companies, advising CFOs, controllers, heads of internal audit, CIOs and audit committees. The owner built and led an Austin risk consulting practice and directed global delivery teams for public and pre IPO clients.
The same person defended audit scope, methodology, evidence and conclusions through annual PCAOB inspections with zero comments, and led the internal quality inspections across engagement teams. That is the standard we build to from management’s side: evidence prepared the way an inspector expects to find it.
Earlier, at the Big Four, the work was IT audit and support of financial statement audits: SOX readiness, ITGCs and IT governance, application controls, and fieldwork over ERP platforms and system implementations. Access and system changes are still where we look first. Scoping runs top down, from the financial statements to the controls that matter. Testing starts with the IT general controls, because the business process controls, the automated controls and the reports they use depend on them.
The person who does the work holds the CISA and the CCSK, and served as Vice President and board member of the ISACA Austin Chapter. We are based in Austin, Texas, and work remote or on site nationwide.
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