May 16, 2024 | |||
8:00 am - 8:10 am | Welcome Announcements | ||
8:10 am - 9:00 am | A Deep Dive into the Global Internal Audit Standards Speaker: Charlie Johnson, Director, Forvis | ||
9:00 am - 9:50 am | Find Your Internal Audit “Why” – Creating an Internal Audit Strategic Plan the Right Way Speaker: Charlie Johnson, Director, Forvis | ||
9:50 am - 10:10 am | Break | ||
10:10 am - 11:00 am | AI Governance and Focus Areas for Audit Speaker: Ramsey Rifai, Senior Director, Protiviti Stephanie Gonzales, Director, Financial Services, Protiviti | ||
11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Auditing with Agility & Audit Optimization Charlie Johnson, Director, Forvis | ||
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Lunch | ||
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm | 5 Critical elements for quality questions Speaker: Robert Berry CPA, CIA, CISA, Six Sigma Green Belt, Certified Virtual Presenter, The Audit Guy | ||
1:50 pm - 2:40 pm | Activate your Auditing Awesomeness Speaker: Robert Berry CPA, CIA, CISA, Six Sigma Green Belt, Certified Virtual Presenter, The Audit Guy | ||
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm | Break | ||
3:00 pm - 3:50 pm | Not Your Average Audit Planning: Leveraging Whistleblower Hotline Data for Audits and Risk Assessments Speaker: Juliette Gust, President and Co-Founder, Ethics Suite | ||
3:50 pm - 4:00 pm | Closing Remarks | ||
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Networking |
Ramsey Rifai Protiviti 40 years of professional experience in multiple industries, large corporations to small startups, US and international. Before joining Protiviti, Ramsey built and led transformational programs at Wells Fargo in Corporate Risk, Wholesale and Technology, focusing on operational resiliency, business process risk management, out-of-region BCP recovery for clearing & settlement apps, Wells-Wachovia merger integration, strategic data center consolidation and on-demand provisioning of technology infrastructure. Prior, Ramsey developed a governance framework in London for HP’s IT outsourcing practice, negotiated 3-way eCommerce joint ventures for a Silicon Valley tech company in partnership with the World Bank and small-business banks in Asia and South America and led the engineering team at Boeing which developed the control system for the electric power system aboard the International Space Station. He has also worked as a computer circuit designer, software developer, solar panel tester and research assistant [investigating satellite-to-submarine communications via laser for the US Navy]. | |
Charlie Johnson Forvis Charlie is a director in Forvis’ Risk Advisory Services practice providing internal audit and risk management services. He is an experienced internal audit executive with more than twenty-five years of experience creating, reforming, leading and advising organizations’ internal audit functions while also working directly for and supporting corporate boards and audit committees. Prior to joining FORVIS in 2020, he served thirteen years as the chief audit executive for a large electric and water utility in central Texas.
Previously, Charlie was the Vice President of Corporate Audit, Compliance & Privacy for a large academic medical system where he was hired to create the organization’s internal audit function. His thirty year internal audit career spans the for-profit, not-for-profit and government sectors and banking, finance, insurance, healthcare and electric generation/transmission and water utility industries. He served twelve years as the audit committee chair for a national not-for-profit board.
He is active in global IIA volunteer leadership roles, currently serving on the International Internal Audit Standards Board. He previously completed seven years of service as the IIA’s Professional Certifications Board chair and Exam Development Committee chair. He is the contracted instructor for the IIA’s Vision University executive education program for new and aspiring chief audit executives. He is a past president of the New Orleans IIA chapter and including his global volunteer time has been an IIA volunteer for over 15 years. He previously served as both a volunteer and paid consultant assisting the IIA in conducting external quality assurance reviews. In 2022, he was awarded the IIA’s Victor Z. Brink Award for Distinguished Service in recognition for unusual and outstanding service to the profession of internal auditing over time.
Charlie is a 1993 graduate of University of Southern Mississippi, with a B.S. degree in accounting. | |
Juliette Gust Ethics Suite Juliette Gust has over 20 years of experience in building out global Ethics and Compliance programs, whistleblower program implementation and management, internal investigations, and both external and internal audit programs in a broad variety of industries. She is the co-founder of Ethics Suite, a company that provides modern digital confidential “hotline” reporting and case management, as well as Ethics & Compliance program-related consulting services. As a former Director of Internal Audit at one of the leading hotel companies in the world, with more than 1,270 properties in 100 countries and over 180,000 employees, Ms. Gust developed and led the Global Fraud & Investigations team for the company. Ms. Gust also served as the Project Manager and a core member of the company’s Anti-Corruption Compliance Program, leading the development of a best-in-class global anti-corruption risk assessment, third-party due diligence, and audit program. Throughout her career, Ms. Gust has personally conducted or managed more than 2,000 investigations spanning 75 countries and advised on more than 10,000 employee ethics line reports. Ms. Gust served previously as a subject matter specialist within PwC’s Regulatory and Forensics practices, where she led investigations and engagements in the U.S. and abroad on a variety of matters including anti-money laundering, sanctions compliance, corruption and bribery, embezzlement, and financial statement fraud – presenting her findings and recommendations to executive boards, federal and state regulatory agencies and audit committees. Juliette has been a Certified Fraud Examiner since 2007. She is also an AZ-licensed Private Investigator. | |
Stephanie Gonzales Protiviti Stephanie is a Director in the Financial Services practice at Protiviti, based out of the Phoenix office. She is an IT Audit leader with 18 years of experience helping clients design and build capabilities within IT operations, cybersecurity, operational resilience, risk and compliance, automation, and service management across various industries. Although she is currently focused on the Financial Services industry, she has supported clients in a variety of industries over the course of her career. In addition to supporting clients, Stephanie also oversees the Emerging Technology Audit Team and is focused on developing Protiviti’s Audit Methodology related to Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies. Stephanie has bachelor’s degrees in computer information systems and marketing from ASU. | |
Robert Berry CPA, CIA, CISA, Six Sigma Green Belt, Certified Virtual Presenter Robert Berry is an award winning auditor, keynote speaker, trainer, author and podcast host. His goal is to help auditors build better relationships by helping them communicate better in the workplace. Robert is a top rated keynote and general session speaker at top tier audit conferences. He is also the author of Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers, Perform Better Audits, the first book dedicated to the art of asking questions while auditing. In addition, he and his co hosts edutain audiences each week on the Friday Fraudster podcast/show. He is also the host of the Audit Bites podcast. Robert loves auditing and says that the profession saved his life. Now he is passionate about using audit to improving people, processes and profits. | |
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