Accomplished Senior Management and Audit Specialist with a robust history at Landbank of the Philippines, showcasing expertise in internal controls evaluation and team management. Excelled in enhancing audit processes and fraud detection, demonstrating a continuous improvement mindset and adaptability. Proven track record in leading teams to achieve significant process improvements.
- Leads the team in monitoring unresolved findings and provides appropriate evaluation and memo reply/rejoinder on unresolved audit findings.
- Reviews and ensures complete, accurate, and timely presentation of regular monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
- Conducts validation and checks reports on deposit accounts that are subject to Freeze Order, Negative Media Reports, and SEC advisories based on the result of AMLD Compliance Testing.
- Provides audit clearance and timely issuance of audit/AAC inputs for hiring, promotion, resignation, retirement, training/scholarships, and other requirements.
- Checks, reviews, and disseminates all audit inputs and relevant matters (i.e., Reports on Crimes and Losses, Returned Bank Confirmation Letter, Special Audit conducted, and Open Findings) that warrant attention of the Field Audit Teams on units to be audited.
- Conducts risk scoring to provide inputs to the annual Plans and Programs and 3-year audit plan, and ensures that all auditable units of the bank are audited within the three-year cycle.
- Supervises the orderly conduct of electronic sending of Confirmation Letters (CL) on Salary Loan Balances; analyzes/verifies transaction history of accounts with negative replies and coordinates with Branches concerned the bounced emails for action; checks/reviews reports on the results of confirmation to the Audit and Compliance Committee.
- Reviews and assists in the preparation of the Department's annual budget.
- Attends meeting and may perform other duties as assigned.
- Conducts validation of alerts generated by EFMS; conducts special audit if warranted.
- Participates in the development or enhancement of scenarios and parameters in EFMS.
- Ensures attainment of targets of Plans and Programs.
- Attends the in-house and external formal classroom training and job knowledge enrichment sessions.
- Ensures compliance with the Bank's initiatives on Sustainable Financing, with regards to the integration of sustainability principles (BSP Circular No.). 1085, s. 2020)
- Ensures compliance with the requirements of the regulators, certification bodies, and professional standards; internal policies, procedures, and duties and responsibilities of IAG and AC Com (IMS/EMS/Code of Ethics/LWRT).
-Performs other functions that may be assigned by the Team Leader and Team Supervisor.
- Participates in the systematic and orderly conduct of risk-based audits of units under the Risk Management Group, Compliance Management Group, Legal Services Group, and subsidiaries of the Bank.
- Conducts special audit of the Units with covered complaints and fraud incidents, or as may be requested by the Management and/or the LBP OP.
- Conducts Risk Assessment and Engagement Planning
- Participates in the conduct of opening conference.
- Executes the audit plan through process walk-through, testing/validation of controls, and completeness of working papers.
- Communicates the results of Audit Engagement.
- Issues accurate, objective, clear, concise, constructive, complete Comment Sheet in a timely manner.
- Participates in the conduct of pre-exit conference.
- Updates and maintains database of AAC cases and corresponding resolutions.
- Delivers efficient secretariat functions in the Audit and Compliance Committee (ACCom) by ensuring that Committee directives and concerns were coordinated with the units in a timely manner.
- Handles issuance of personnel clearance on regularization, promotion, trainings, scholarship, retirement/SIP, and resignation by ensuring that personnel clearances are processed within TAT. Handles issuance of personnel clearance on regularization, promotion, trainings, scholarship, retirement, resignation, and Separation Incentive Program.
- Actively participates in the enhancement of audit procedures through updating existing audit procedures of audited units.
- Actively participates in the preparation of monthly/quarterly reports, i.e. Report on major findings, report on open findings, common/recurring findings, unit's accomplishment report, Audit Client Satisfaction Survey Quarterly Report, etc.
- Actively participates in the consolidation and monitoring of audit open findings by sending out and communicating with audit clients of their observations, subject to monitoring.
- Performs and delivers other assigned duties from the IAG Head, President and CEO, AAC, ACCom, and the Board in a complete, accurate, and timely manner and with less supervision.
- Performs other functions that may be assigned by the Team Leader and Team Supervisor
- Bookkeeper
- ATM Loading Team
- Records Custodian
- Bookkeeper
- Bank Teller
- Clearing Assistant
- Acting Bank Teller
- Clearing Assistant
- New Accounts Clerk
- Acting Secretary
- Clerk
- Acting Secretary
- Processed electrical connection application.
- Answered multi-line phone system and enthusiastically greeted callers.
Internal controls evaluation