I am a client-based internal audit manager at a hospital in Los Angeles County.  I am responsible for all facets of internal audit including risk assessment, audit plan, testing and  remediation.  I also provide quarterly updates with the Board.

I joined BDO - USVI in January 2019 as a Disaster Recovery Consultant.  In my current role, I am able to assist various organizations in the US Virgin Islands as they continue to recover from the devastation of two Category 5 hurricanes that struck the islands within thirteen days of each other.

I established the internal audit function at SRH.  I reported directly to the VP of Compliance and Internal Audit.  I created an audit charter, policies and procedures, audit reports, testing templates, risk assessment and presentations.  I was also tasked with training and supervising staff in both the Internal Audit and Compliance functions.  I created a bi-annual risk-based audit plan.  My department reported directly to the Board and administratively to the CEO.  

My team performed the full spectrum of internal audits including financial, operational and compliance reviews.  We also performed investigations related to potential data breaches, drug diversions, cash thefts, etc.  The audit team also performed a bi-annual full risk assessment for the organization every two years with a 99% participation rate.  We prepared all work papers, testing and reports to support the findings.  

While at SRH, we also added ACL and ACL-GRC to our arsenal of audit tools.  It allowed us to engage ACL consultants to design continual audit tools while we continued performing audits.  The ACL monitoring allowed us to effectively and efficiently monitor those processes that posed continual risk to the organization.  The use of technology helped us to perform a wide variety of testing with a small staff.