Eustace_Ned_CV_09_2016

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Edward (Ned) Eustace
PFM, Financial and Performance Audit Specialist
1. Name of Firm: Self-employed
2. Date of Birth: December 26, 1942
3. Nationality: Irish/Canadian/British
4. Education:
Institution: Date: Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
University College Dublin, Ireland 1964 B.Comm.
John Molson School of Business,
Concordia University, Montreal
1991 MBA
5. Professional Development:
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, as part of his continuing education
in 2011 and 2013:
 Public Financial Management - Planning and Performance
 Public Financial Management - Privatisation & Public-Private Partnerships
 Financial Management Reporting and Audit
 Public Financial Management - Revenue
6. Areas of Expertise
Performance Audit - Standards & Methodology SAI Operations & Organization
Procurement – review, principles & practices SAI Human Resource Management
Communications & Report Writing SAI Policy and legislative analysis
Strategic Planning design Role of Public Accounts Committees
Survey /Opinion Poll design Internal audit – review, principles & practice
IT Systems Requirements Specifications Audit Training
7. Membership of Professional Associations
Chartered Accountant (1971) - The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario
Member of the Project Management Institute (2010)
8. Countries of Work Experience:
Afghanistan, Armenia, Bulgaria, Canada, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Sierra Leone.
9. Languages:
Language Reading Speaking Writing
English Excellent Excellent Excellent
10. Training Course Development & Delivery
 Developed and led a seminar on Results-based Performance Auditing.
 Developed and taught Computer Systems Audit and Control courses for Chartered
Accountancy students at McGill University, Montreal,
 Developed and taught a course, Business Strategy and Business Plan Development, for 4th
year undergraduates at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal.
 Developed and led seminars on Accounting & Finance for the Non-Financial Manager.
 Developed and led seminars on the role of Public Accounts Committees.
 Wrote papers on auditing the Millennium Development and Strategic Development Goals
 Wrote research papers on Auditing Grants and Contributions

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11. Employment Record:
Date From/To Employer Positions Held
1/2015 – to date
Self-employed since selling interest in
Breckenhill Inc.
Independent Consultant
1/2000 – 12/2014 Breckenhill Inc. Ottawa, Canada
Managing Partner &
Shareholder
6/1995 - 12/1999 Osborn & Lange Inc. Montreal, Canada VP Finance & Shareholder
6/1991 - 5/1995 The Bronson Consulting Group Partner
8/1987 - 5/1991 AON/Minet, Montreal, Canada
VP Information Systems &
Treasurer
5/1980 - 7/1987
Spicer McGillivray, Chartered Accountants
(now BDO), Montreal, Canada
Partner
7/1973 - 4/1980
Riddell Stead, Chartered Accountants (now
KPMG), Montreal, Canada
Audit Manager
1/1972 - 6/1973
Canada Cement Lafarge Inc. Montreal,
Canada
Director of Internal Audit
9/1968 - 12/1971
MacDonald Currie (now PwC), Toronto,
Canada
Audit Senior & Student-in-
Accounts
11/1964 - 7/1968 The Rootes Group Limited, Coventry, UK Systems Analyst

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12. Projects and Assignments
Date from - Date to Location Position Description
O4/2014 – Ongoing to
December 2016
Sierra
Leone
Team Leader
Team Leader and senior advisor to the Auditor General of Sierra Leone. This is
an auditcapacity building projectfor Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL), the nation’s
SAI. Funded by DFID and implemented byBDO UK LLP in a consortium of ILPI of
Norway.
Project focus is on continuing technical assistance in auditing (financial,IT and
Performance Audit), HRM, methodology,media/communications and SAI enabling
legislation.As Team Leader while planning and managing all projectactivities has
hands-on responsibilityfor the following:
 Conducted review for and produced the Inception Reportand laid down
resourced projectmanagementtimelines and reporting processes;
 Coordinating activities oftwo long-term experts and a team of short-term
experts;
 Developed a DFID approved interim projectplan to work through the Ebola
health crisis in Sierra Leone;
 Developed a 2014-2016 ProcurementPlan for the SAI;
 Developed and published ASSL Strategic Plan 2016-2020 including
‘rebranding’ and creating a new logo for the agency;
 Coordinated the 2013,2014 and 2015 Auditor General’s Annual Report
Working Group and managed the report publishing projectto meetstatutory
deadlines;
 Managed consultantdeliverables for performance audit,financial audit,
specialized audit,HRM and ICT project activities;
 Directly managed two government-wide studies ofprocurement,results
published as Special Chapters in successive AG Annual Reports;
 Advised government-wide studyof revenue mobilization with a special focus
on the National Revenue Authority.
 Post-Ebola epidemic,coordinated design,delivery and writing a special
study of the health sector for DFID, liaised with ex-patconsultants,officials
of the CDC and WHO, metwith senior executive health ministryand
published a special chapter in the AG’s Annual Report;

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 Developed systems requirements specifications using IEEE Standard 830-
1998 for an Audit ManagementInformation System (AIMS) and negotiated
World Bank funding for the project.
 Directly managed a government-wide studyof assetmanagement,results
published as a special chapter in the AG’s Annual Report;and
 Developed Quarterly Project Reports and handled liaison with DFID Sierra
Leone and other donor stakeholders.
Reference: Mrs. Lara Taylor-Pearce, Auditor General of Sierra Leone,e-mail:
ltaylorpearce@yahoo.com
Mobile: +2376619227
Periodic Deployments
11/2014 – 12/2015
Afghanistan Senior Advisor
World Bank Mission to Afghanistan. Engaged by the World Bank to carry-out a
supervision mission on the Public Financial ManagementReform (PFMR II) initiatives
working with officials from the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Afghanistan Reconstruction
and DevelopmentServices (ARDS), and the Supreme Audit Office (SAO).
The review assesses progress toward these PFM DevelopmentObjectives and the
implementation plans ofthe PFMR II.
 Outputs were compared to monitoring Indicators as a basis for assessing
progress componentby componentand establishing with the government
counterparts any required adjustments to projectactivities, approaches or
planned outputs.
 There was a specific focus on the Supreme AuditOffice and the
government-wide implementation ofInternal Audit capabilityby the Ministry
of Finance. In addition to the defined performance indicators evaluation of
compliance with international auditing standards (INTOSAI, ISSAI and IIA)
was required along with donor funded training and other capacity building
initiatives.
 AssessmentofMoF-based internal auditfunction and its compliance with
pre-established performance criteria thattriggered ‘bonus’ donor funding.
 Working as part of a multi-disciplinaryteam contributed to the preparation
and finalisation ofthe WB Annual Supervision Reporton Afghanistan to WB
HQ in Washington DC.
Reference: Mr Paul Sisk,Senior Financial ManagementSpecialist,World Bank
E-mail: psisk@worldbank.org Mobile:+93 (0) 70 079309

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08/2013 – 12/2013
Sierra
Leone
Senior Advisor
Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) Engaged by DFID to provide technical input,
writing and editing skills as well as strategic advice on developing the 2012 Auditor
General’s Annual Report to Parliament.
 Working with the Auditor General (AG), coordinated the activities of the
Annual Report Working Group in developing the overarching theme for the
report, designing its layout,writing key sections while editing and exercising
overall quality control over the complete publishing process
 Worked with key ASSL senior management,metwith governmentofficials
and representatives ofthe donor community(DFID, EU, AfDB and WB) and
held briefing sessions with the AG.
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ASSL has had the benefit some years ofDFID and AfDB funded extensive technical
assistance and is a high-functioning and very effective INTOSAI compliantSupreme
Audit Institution.The currentfocus is on knowledge transfer to internal ASSL staff and
capacity building for the future.
Mobile: +2376619227
03/09/2013 – 18/09/2013 Afghanistan Senior Advisor
World Bank Mission to Afghanistan. Engaged by the World Bank to carry-out a
supervision mission on the Public Financial ManagementReform (PFMR II) initiatives
working with officials from the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Afghanistan Reconstruction
and DevelopmentServices (ARDS), and the Supreme Audit Office (SAO).
The review assesses progress toward these PFM DevelopmentObjectives and the
implementation plans ofthe PFMR II.
 Outputs were compared to monitoring Indicators as a basis for assessing
progress componentby componentand establishing with the government
counterparts any required adjustments to projectactivities, approaches or
planned outputs.
 There was a specific focus on the Supreme AuditOffice and the
government-wide implementation ofInternal Audit capabilityby the Ministry
of Finance. In addition to the defined performance indicators evaluation of
compliance with international auditing standards (INTOSAI, ISSAI and IIA)
was required along with donor funded training and other capacity building
initiatives.

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 AssessmentofMoF-based internal auditfunction and its compliance with
pre-established performance criteria thattriggered ‘bonus’ donor funding.
 Working as part of a multi-disciplinaryteam contributed to the preparation
and finalisation ofthe WB Annual Supervision Reporton Afghanis tan to WB
HQ in Washington DC.
05/2013 – 7/2013 Afghanistan Senior Advisor
Member of a UNDP Special Mission to Afghanistan advising on the on-budget/off-
budgetcomponents for the 2014 Presidential elections and the 2015 parliamentary
elections.Interviewed GIRoA ministers,senior governmentofficials,UNDP ELECTII
Team and donors as partof making a risk-based assessmentformulating
recommendations to UNDP and donors.The resulting reportis a key document
guiding GIRoA and Donors in meeting the requirements ofPresidential Decree No.45
regarding placing developmentfunding on budget.
Reference: Mr. Alvaro Rodriguez, Country Director, - Afghanistan,UNDP Kabul, s.
Lara Taylor-Pearce, Auditor General of Sierra Leone,e-mail:
alvaro.rodriguez@undp.org
Mobile: +93 (0) 790 509 407
08/2011 – 12/2012
Sierra
Leone
Team Leader
Team Leader and senior advisor to the Auditor General of Sierra Leone. This
was an audit capacity building projectfor Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL), the
nation’s SAI. Funded by DFID and implemented byPKF UK LLP in a consortium of
SIPU and the UK NAO.
Project focus was on technical assistance in auditing (financial,IT and Performance
Audit), HRM, methodology,media/communications and SAI enabling legislation.As
Team Leader while planning and managing all projectactivities had hands -on
responsibilityfor the following:
 Conducted review for and produced the Inception Reportand laid down
resourced projectmanagementtimelines and reporting processes;
 Introduced risk-based auditselection and scoping methodologyinto multi-
year auditplanning and management;
 Developed and delivered ManagementLetter and ReportWriting training;

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 Developed and delivered post-procurementprojectreview and audit staff
training in cooperation with WB and Sierra Leone National Public
Procurement Authority;
 Set-up Auditor General’s Annual ReportWorking Group and managed the
report publishing projectto meetstatutory deadlines
 Edited and wrote key parts of the Annual Reportin close collaboration with
the Auditor General for 2010 and 2011;
 Wrote an in-depth review of the National Revenue Authority (NRA) as part of
a special studyof revenue mobilization and international comparison of
ECOWAS GDP/Revenue outcomes for Sierra Leone,published as special
chapter in the AG’s Annual Report for 2012;and
 Liaised with Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee developed a one-day
training program and wrote an information fold-outleafletfor public
distribution bymembers.
Developed Quarterly Reports for presentation to the Project Steering Committee
made up of senior governmentofficials and donor representatives.
Mobile: +2376619227
11/2008 – 12/2010 Afghanistan Team Leader
Team Leader and senior advisor to the Auditor General of Afghanistan. This was
a two-year audit capacity building project for the Control and Audit Office (CAO), the
Afghan SAI. Funded by the WB and implemented byPKF UK LLP.
 Project focus was on building financial,procurementand performance audit
capacity of the CAO through annual audits of50+ projects financed through
the $2.5 billion Afghanistan Reconstruction TrustFund (ARTF). Thus the
primaryobjective was auditassurance to the WB as manager ofthe ARTF
and its donors with trained CAO financial auditstaff skilled in national and
WB procurementlaws and regulations.
 All non-militaryprojects,they ranged from relatively low value gender
sensitivitytraining to the $250 million National SolidarityProgram.Audits
were risk-based substantive tests with reporting againstthe IPSAS Cash-
basis standard.The projects covered the activities of all Central Government
Ministries and all Provinces of the Islamic Republic.

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As Team Leader using classic projectmanagementtechniques (PMI-PMBOK and MS
Project) produced a fully-resourced technical projectplan.Three financial years were
audited in a two-year period and all key WB deadlines were successfullyachieved.
The following were the basic activities of the Team Leader:
 Coordinated a team of eight international consultants and over twenty local
staff;
 Scheduled work of periodic short-term experts for IT reviews of the national
IFMIS, new Audit Law review and relationship to the National Assembly;
 Agreed the detailed auditplan with Ministry of Finance officials and the WB
and met with a working group each week;
 Drafted and recommended short-form AuditOpinion on the ARTF; Reviewed
and provided guidance to the CAO on content of managementletters;
 Drafted the overall ManagementLetter on the ARTF for Solar Years 1385,
‘86 and ‘87;and
 Drafted Quarterly Progress Reports for discussion atSteering Committee
Meetings.
Was primary pointof contact with senior ministryofficials,contracted NGO
representatives as well as donor representatives and a frequentspeaker atinter-
agency seminars commenting on Public Financial Managementmatters in
Afghanistan.
July 2007 Kazakhstan
Public Sector Audit
Advisor
Working with BearingPoint (now Deloitte) conducted a review of the new Law on the
Accounts Committee,the Kazakh Supreme Audit Institution,and prepared comments
and recommendations.
April - May 2007 Armenia Consultant
Public Sector Modernization Project, financed by the World Bank and working for
DPK Consulting ofSan Francisco and Ameria Consulting Inc.of Yerevan, Armenia.
Developed a Performance Audit Manual and a Staff Developmentand Training
Strategy for the Armenian Council of Control,Armenia’s SAI.
Reference: Gagik Sahakyan, Partner, Ameria Inc., gagik@ameria.am Tel:+374 (10)
52 40 40

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February 2006 Bulgaria
Consultant
Under the USAID funded Bulgarian Open Government Initiative developed a
parliamentary liaison model for use by the Bulgarian National Audit Office and the
Finance and Budget Committee of the National Assembly.
Advised on quality management and control of audit reporting processes including
report clearance, key message management, audit file documentation and briefings,
all in accord with INTOSAI standards.
Reference: Grant Wilson, USAID Chief of Party, fincon2000@hotmail.com
October – Dec. 2006 Bulgaria
Consultant
Developed a Performance Audit Manual for the Bulgarian National AuditOffice
(BNAO) and presented three performance audittraining seminars as partofthe
USAID funded Bulgarian Open GovernmentInitiative.Opened contacts for the BNAO
with EU Courtof Auditors in Luxembourg and with the Comptroller and Auditor
General of Ireland.
Reference: Grant Wilson,USAID Chief of Party, fincon2000@hotmail.com
June - July 2006 Bulgaria
Consultant
Under the USAID funded Bulgarian Open GovernmentInitiative developed and
presented a three-day performance auditseminar with a focus on results-based
auditing,understanding-the-business,results-based management(RBM), risk
analysis,critical success factor analysis,auditcriteria selection and assessment.
Reference: Grant Wilson,USAID Chief of Party, fincon2000@hotmail.com
Selection of Consulting
Assignments undertaken from
1974 to 2006 for the Office of
the Auditor General of
Canada
Canada
Principal-on-
Secondment from
National Auditing firm
& Senior Consultant
Methodology Development.
 Published,edited and wrote parts ofthe Comprehensive AuditManual for the
Office of the Auditor General of Canada (2nd Edition) - the authoritative
administrative and audit policy document of the OAG.
 Developed and presented OAG policy for, and co-authored Audit Guides for
the Special Examination Audit of State-owned Enterprises (SOEs).A Special
Examination is a corporate governance/Board-focused performance audit of
State-owned enterprises.
 Developed and presented Generic AuditCriteria,consistentwith the Canadian
Institute of Chartered Accountants Public Sector Accounting and Auditing
Standards, for the performance audit of state-owned enterprises.

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 Co-authored Audit Guides for auditing Human Resource Management, IT
Systems Under Development, and Grants & Contributions used to fund
Government Programmes.
 Conceived, designed and developed a Lotus Notes-based electronic working
paper file application for special audits of SOEs.
Audit of Contracting and Procurement
 Using a “balanced score-card” approach reviewed Government-wide
Contracting and Procurement as delivered by Ministries, the Department of
Public Works and the related policy developmentand implementation role of
Treasury Board. The review included procurement policy, administrative
procedures, delegation authorities, project management, resourcing and
reporting as well as ethical guidelines compliance.
 As a senior consultant worked on a Government-wide Study of Grants and
Contributions funding model focusing on the Treasury Board’s role as
“gatekeeper” to Cabinetand wrote key parts of the resulting chapter in the in
the Annual Report of the Auditor General.(2003) as well as a White Paper on
auditing grants and contributions.
 Participated in a Government–wide Study of Revolving Funds and alternative
approaches to delivering and funding government services.
Reference: Mr William F. Radburn, Assistant Auditor General of Canada (Retired),
E-mail: wradburn@aol.com Telephone: (819) 684-6576
March 2006
Canada
Team Leader
International Development ResearchCentre (IDRC) – Advised on outsourcing
internal auditservices in a manner that would complywith Treasury Board policy on
internal auditand the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) professional standards.
Developed requestfor proposal (RFP), including points-based bid-rating system,
selected and recommended a shortlistoffirms for a closed tender.
Reference: Sylvain Dufour, CFO, sdufour@idrc.ca Tel:613-236-6163
January 2001/May 3003
Canada
Project Leader
Managed, on behalfof Health Canada, a 20 + person developmentteam drawn from
and international consortium ofIT professionals. The objective was to develop a web-
based application for analysing, publishing,accessing, disseminating health survey,
demographic,administrative and performance data.Subsequentlyadvised on
possible commercialization ofthe application.

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Consortium consisted ofAJJA Technologies (Ottawa),NSD/University of Bergen
(Norway) and Nesstar Limited (Universityof EssexUK).
This was a complexprojectinvolving the coordination ofthree enterprises in Canada
and Europe with the periodic use of other independentexperts in advanced ISO
database standards and the emergentData Documentation Initiative (DDI) standard
for statistical datasets.
The Project Leader’s role involved interaction between public sector client
representatives as well as the developmentand maintenance ofa project plan using
MS Project. Reporting relationships included interaction with projectteam,consortium
member management,Health Canada representatives and governmentauditors.

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