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THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL AUDITORS DETROIT CHAPTER DECEMBER IIA/ISACA DETROIT JOINT CHAPTER HYBRID MEETING Wednesday, December 11, 2024
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST Location: MSU Management Education Center or Virtually Via Zoom 2 CPE Credits Registration to join us in-person is open until noon, December 6th! Virtual Registration will remain open until 3pm, December 11th!
Data and Analytics in Audit and Assurance Services / Strengthening Cybersecurity Posture Leveraging NIST CSF 2.0 Join us for our annual joint ISACA/ IIA hybrid meeting in December! For this meeting we’ll start with Lauren Hall and Varun Pathak from Deloitte presenting on "Data and Analytics in Audit and Assurance Services." They will walk us through the fundamentals and application of data and analytics technologies using advanced tools to analyze large and complex datasets, how to uncover key patterns based on financial/operational risk areas and how to provide data-driven insights to enhance the efficiency and quality of audits. After dinner, we’ll have two speakers including Bob Kender and Jamey Loupe from BDO who will cover "Strengthening Cybersecurity Posture Leveraging NIST CSF 2.0." This will include an overview of NIST CSF 2.0, the impact of Third-Party Service Providers and cybersecurity to have “layers” of security to reduce risk and responding to business email compromises. PRESENTERS:
Lauren Hall is an Audit & Assurance manager for Deloitte with over 8 years of audit experience serving both public and private clients primarily in the financial service industry. Lauren focuses on providing data analysis and data visualization services to bring unique and innovative data-driven approaches to her engagements and to help audit functions transform through the use of analytics. Lauren is currently the lead analytics manager on a large financial service client and serves 10+ public clients in various industries. Lauren has experience with custom analytics including reconciliations, recalculations, sampling, and profiling across various audit areas (consumer, lease, invest securities, insurance loss and premiums, reinsurance, deposits, management override, mortgage, commercial, and deposits). In addition to audit work, Lauren has worked on the Audit Analytics Internal Quality Review team for four years, bringing quality to audits. Lauren is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
Varun Pathak is an Audit & Assurance manager for Deloitte with over 9 years of audit experience serving both public and private clients primarily in the financial services and consumer industry. Varun has demonstrated expertise in leveraging advanced data analytics techniques to drive strategic insights, enhance audit quality and efficiency and optimize assurance processes. Moreover, Varun is skilled in managing cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration, deploying scalable and long-term data strategies, implementing end-to-end analytics solutions aligning with audit methodology. Varun is passionate about innovation, continuous improvement, and a commitment to mentoring and coaching teams to achieve strategic goals and driving a culture of data-driven decision making on his engagements.
Bob Kender, CISA is a Managing Director in the Data Risk and Controls (DRC) practice of BDO, LLP. Bob has 20 years of IT audit and risk advisory experience serving public, private and non-for-profit companies. His experience with the Risk Advisory Service line, providing IT (information technology) advisory, has encompassed IT Risk and Controls audits (internal and external lens – inclusive of IT general controls (ITGCs) and application/automated controls), cybersecurity maturity assessments, SOX readiness/IPO and implementation projects, System and Organization Control (SOC) Reporting and Agreed-Upon Procedures (AUP) engagements, and Segregation of Duties (SoD) analysis. He has experience working mainly in the Northeast Region, as well as across the United States, serving a wide range of industries including technology, real estate, banking (FDICIA), pharmaceutical, retail, life sciences, oil and gas, as well as manufacturing. Bob also has extensive experience designing the approach and performing the evaluation of the information technology control environment for a number of firms in support of the preparing, and/or conducting, the financial statement audit process. Reviews include the detailed assessment of the information security architecture, evaluation of the system development methodology and management controls.
Jamey Loupe, CISA, CCSK is a Managing Director in BDO’s Risk Advisory Services practice where he leads our Data Risk & Controls team which focuses on IT risk advisory solutions. Jamey has more than 20 years of progressive experience leading and organizing IT audit and IT Security teams and projects. He has provided IT audit and advisory services to various Fortune 500 and mid-size multi-national companies in multiple industries. Prior to joining BDO, Jamey worked in the IT Internal Audit and IT Security functions for Oil and Gas services companies. Prior to that he was with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Jamey has further experience in Information Technology Standards & Governance, IT Risk Assessments, Cloud Security and Governance, and Disaster Recover Planning.
To join us in-person, please RSVP by 12pm (noon) on Friday, December 6th. AGENDA: 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm: Registration & Networking OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS:
Please note - this year the in-person days for the Spring Conference will be held Tuesday through Thursday based on availability of the venue. IIA ROCK STAR OF THE MONTH: Do not forget to submit nominees for The IIA Rock Star of the Month. A winner will be announced during our monthly chapter meetings. The IIA Rock Star award recognizes a member who is early within their Auditing career or new to an internal audit role and who demonstrates any the following:
Your nomination, including a detailed explanation as to why you believe your nominee is the IIA Rock Star of the Month, should be submitted by accessing the nomination form on the Detroit Chapter website at https://www.detroitiia.org/ QUESTIONS: If you have any questions, please feel free to reply to this email or contact Amber Dunn-Egerer, Chapter Administrator at chapter2@iiachaptercommunications.org or 248.760.8333.
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