Vijay Raghavendar has over 4 years of experience in internal audits, risk assessments, compliance audits, and business process re-engineering. He is seeking a consulting or audit role that will allow him to pursue a career in compliance and risk-based auditing. He has worked as an Internal Audit Senior for Grant Thornton LLP and held roles such as Business Controls Lead and Financial Analyst at Hewlett Packard India Pvt Ltd. Notable accomplishments include achieving the highest performance ratings and facilitating full business controls compliance for clients.
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Data issues are deeply rooted and extremely complex. Not only do organizations have trouble choosing a starting point for bad data, but they also have difficulty finding the root cause of the issue. As a result, data audits can be long, tedious initiatives, that offer little insight into the data issues.
Traditional data audits are too narrowly focused on security and compliance. Availability and trust issues need to be uncovered as well.
Organizations are not aware of all their data sources.
Organizations are conducting data audits that are ineffective, only focusing on issues and failing to get to the root of the problem.
Data audits are failing to provide insight into possible solutions and problem resolution.
Critical Insight
A combination of technical profiling and user profiling will help you understand where issues are and why they exist.
An annual data audit initiative will continually revise and fine-tune ongoing practices, processes, and procedures for the management and handling of data within the organization.
You can’t do everything at once. Pick a process, see some early victories, gain momentum, and repeat.
Impact and Result
Prepare for the audit: Prepare in advance to make the audit process smoother and less time-intensive. Identify and create an inventory of all data sources that are within the scope of your data audit. Use these data sources to understand which users would provide a valuable, insightful interview. Schedule interviews and complete technical profiling.
Conduct audit: Interview relevant stakeholders identified in the audit preparation. Use insight from these interviews to complete user profiling. Update the data sources and data inventory with any information that may have been missed.
Analyze and assess results: Get to the root of the problem through conducting a root cause analysis. Find out why the issues are occurring.
Correct plan: You know what the issues are and you now know why they are being caused. Create the corrective plan through prioritizing initiatives and data activities. Use a combination of short-term and long-term initiatives.
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INTERNAL AUDIT & FINANCIAL REPORTING PROFESSIONAL
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1. VIJAY RAGHAVENDAR
Over 4+ years in Internal Audits, Risk Assessments, Compliance Audits, SAS 70 Audits, Data Mining, Contract
Compliance, Business Process Re-engineering, Duplicate Payment Analysis and Team Management.
OBJECTIVE
Seeking consulting or audit roles and assignments in an organization of repute with a supportive
and encouraging environment that would enable me to pursue a successful career in Compliance,
Risk based & IT audit.
EXPERIENCE
July 2010–Present Grant Thornton LLP Bangalore, India
Internal Audit Senior - Bangalore, India
Support the audit manager in the delivery of audit programs for different industries.
Plan, execute & document audits for various operations of the organization, including
assessing risks and determining scope of assigned audits.
Assess business, technological, operating and control risks; make recommendations for
improvements of current and proposed systems and operations.
Work directly with the business owners and auditors to facilitate preparation of controls
documentation and consult with management regarding actions required for resolution of
controls issues.
Contribute to audit committee meetings & provide significant input during annual and
periodic risk assessments of business processes, functions, departments.
Ensure integration with the company’s Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) & conduct quality
assurance reviews and testing of financial and operational areas; investigate and document
issues for senior management.
March 2008–Jan 2009 Hewlett Packard India Pvt ltd Chennai, India
Business Controls Lead - Chennai, India; Wroclaw, Poland; Guangzhou, China.
Leading the Business Controls (Financial, SAS 70, Data Privacy, and Contractual
Controls) activities for several clients coming under the purview of HP's business centers.
Reviewing and analyzing the client's SOX requirements and aligning them with HP’s
business control requirements. Conducting periodic evaluation to ensure that the
outsourced processes adhere to the COSO framework.
Planning and executing periodic Business Controls self-assessment, SAS 70 and Data
privacy reviews for the outsourced processes and ensuring compliance.
2. Ensuring the IT, HR, Physical Security, Contractual, Data Privacy, Data Confidentiality,
Asset governance are operating effectively and ensuring contractual compliance is met.
June 2007– February 2008 Hewlett Packard India Pvt ltd Chennai, India
Lead Financial Analyst
Continued the role of financial analyst with additional managerial responsibilities. Led
and successfully completed several projects in lines of duplicate analysis, account
reconciliations, unclaimed property & debit balance recoveries.
Creating an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking and
cohesive team effort while ensuring deliverables are prepared and met effectively and
efficiently as per project requirements, cost and schedule.
Provide status of team's activities/performance against the program plan or schedule and
keep the project manager informed of task accomplishments and issues.
May 2005 – May 2007 Hewlett Packard India Pvt ltd Chennai, India
Financial Analyst
Research into financial transactions involving HP's worldwide suppliers leading to
recoveries of duplicate payments and overdue credits by understanding the end-to-end
procurement process and accounts payable process.
Provided and implemented many process improvements for operations involved in
procurement, payments and reconciliations worldwide, leading to increased cost saving to
the company.
Manage accounting transactions, provide financial consultancy and training; and ensure
compliance with legal, tax and internal audit requirements.
NOTABLE ACCO MPLISHMENTS
At work
Qtr 1 2007 – Most valuable person award for the Global Controls and Compliance
Group in Hewlett Packard.
Consecutively topped in performance targets in FY 2006, FY 2007 and achieving the
highest grade in performance appraisal.
As Business Controls Lead in HP, facilitated 100% Business Controls Compliance
leading to green rating by the customer's internal and external auditors for all clients
handled
3. INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
INDUSTRY/PRODUCT LINE DESCRIPTION OF WORK
IT/ Software Industry SOX 404 Compliance, Internal Audit.
Supply Chain Management Internal Audit, Process Reviews, Data Mining, Business
Process Re-engineering.
Manufacturing Internal Audit, Development of IA manuals
Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Internal Audit – Process Costing, Legal Compliance
Real Estate and Construction Internal Audit, General IT Controls testing,
Shared – Service Centre Process Reviews, Risk consulting, Contractual
Assessments & SAS-70 Reviews
EDUCATION
Certifications
Certified Internal Auditor (CIA).
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Degree
B. Com - Bachelors in Commerce.
Languages known
English, Tamil, Hindi – Fluent
French, Japanese – Beginner Level
INTERESTS
Photography, Computers, Traveling.
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