At Deloitte & Touche, Nancy excelled in enhancing SOX compliance and leading agile transformations, showcasing expertise in business analysis and collaborative mindset. Innovative approach in automating SOX processes saved 200 hours annually, demonstrating a results-driven approach and significant contributions to internal audit and fraud risk assessment.
SOX ICFR: Nancy has extensive experience assisting clients with SOX compliance, engaging in activities such as process walkthroughs, documentation enhancement, and implementation of new controls. Her expertise spans on offshore role, where she has effectively identified and remediated control deficiencies across critical business processes including AR, WIP valuation, and financial close, among others. Nancy has also collaborated with global member firms in countries such as Indonesia, Phoenix, Cerro Verde, and North America, ensuring their SOX documentation meets client standards and contributing to successful, cooperative engagements. Further, she was involved in preparation of SAR memos.
Agile Transformation: She had led agile-transformation initiative on one of the largest IA/ICFR engagement. She has helped team in implementing different tools and techniques such as MS Teams, Azure DevOps, Corestream, etc. to gain benefits such as improved team collaboration, increased visibility across geography and levels on engagement, timely identification and resolution of impediments, etc.
SOX Readiness: She has helped clients to make them SOX compliant by formalizing their internal controls system. She participated in brainstorming sessions with the team and the client, prepared process flow diagrams, risk control matrix and identified design gaps and improvement opportunities based on walkthroughs.
Fraud Risk Assessment: She has assisted in Fraud Risk Assessments and helped client to mitigate risks arising from various scenarios by identifying appropriate controls.
Automation/Innovation: She has helped in achieving process automation on one of the client’s SOX project wherein she was part of a team of six. This involved automating the task of updating Control Repository Listing and creating workpaper templates every year with the help of customized tool which uses Python script and SQL database servers. This has resulted in saving of around 200 hours every year.
IA Analytics: She has also worked on Internal Audits involving analytics and was part of brain-storming sessions. She has exposure to SAP and Blackline as well to understand the underlying data effectively. She helped in translating the Audit requests to Analytics team, and validating the reports provided by them.
Actual to Budget: Involved in High-level Engagement Management such as Budget to Actual Analysis of Client Service Hours, interpretation and presentation thereof, and tracking of forecast hours and scheduled hours.