USAA Data Analytics Training

Join us on April 11th at USAA to learn all about Data Analytics and how you can increase your audit efficiencies!

Register early and save!!! Early bird pricing ends 3/18.

In person and virtual options available

Registration Closes April 3rd

USAA

1 Norterra Dr

Phoenix AZ

9:00 am - 3:45 pm

6 Hours

Data Analytics brought to you by USAA

The Basics of Data for Internal Audit Professionals: What is Data vs Analytics?

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, data plays a pivotal role in providing insight, identifying risks, and enhancing audit efficiency. This training segment aims to empower internal auditors with the foundational understanding necessary to harness the power of data in their audit engagements.

In this session, participants will:

Discuss the importance of data in the internal audit process.
Gain exposure to data concepts
Explore differences between data and data analytics.
Discuss real life examples of D&A uses.

Leveraging Data Analytics in Internal Auditing: Independence and Collaboration

This session provides guidance on maximizing the effectiveness of internal audit processes through strategic decision-making regarding analytics deployment. Auditors will gain understanding of when and how to utilize data analytics independently and when to engage with dedicated audit analytic functions, if available, within an organization.

Investigate scenarios where data analytics can add value to audit engagements.
Discuss how to assess the audit objective and risk factors to determine the need for specialized analytics.
Learn how auditors can handle simple data analysis that does not require specialized skills or toolsets.

Case Study – What Types of Questions Should Auditors Ask?

This case study is designed to equip auditors with the necessary skills to formulate insightful questions when considering analytics in their audit engagements. Through a hypothetical scenario, auditors will navigate a structured approach to identify data analysis potential, foster critical thinking, and enhance ability to leverage analytics effectively.

Formulate relevant questions to determine analytic potential.

Understanding Auditor Priorities: Tailoring Your Approach

Integrating analytics within an audit department will always have competing priorities. This session will explore auditor priorities and needs and examine how audit analytics professionals can tailor their approach to working with auditors in a way that drives value to the audit and our business partners.

In this session, participants will:

Explore auditor priorities and contrast to analytics priorities.
Discuss strategies for aligning analytics work to auditor priorities.
Learn ways to tailor the approach for successful integration.

Maximizing Impact: Designing Visualizations for Auditor Engagement

Data visualizations can be extremely useful for auditor engagement and providing valuable insights. However, all visualizations are not created equally. You often hear “let the data tell a story,” But what does that mean? This session focuses on designing dashboards that are easy to understand, provide valuable insight, and drive engagement. This session will include several use cases as you will learn about techniques and the core concepts on what makes a visualization impactful.

In this session, participants will:

Explore auditor needs in a visualization.
Principles of effective visuals
Understand keys to success when using visualizations to explain your analysis to auditors.

Automated and ITGC Control Testing - Full Population Testing, Test of One, Sampling

Oftentimes, IT General Control (ITGCs) can be tested via the test of one approach. However, there are instances when a full population testing approach is a better fit. This session offers an examination of three approaches to automated control testing while integrating considerations for ITGCs. Participants will gain insights into the advantages, limitations, and considerations associated with each approach.

Continuous Analytic Solution – Case Study

In today’s data rich environment, auditors play a crucial role in harnessing data analytics to enhance audit quality, efficiency, and effectiveness. Continuous Analytics/Auditing offers auditors the opportunity to leverage data analytics for continuous assurance and risk management. As such, analytic functions should be skilled in identifying and creating continuous analytics. This session will provide an example of how continuous analytics can be leveraged in the Audit department and will also contain a case study where trainees will have the opportunity to build business requirements for a continuous analytic solution.

Formulate relevant questions to determine continuous analytic potential.

April 11, 2024
9:00 am - 10:15 am	The Basics of Data for Internal Audit Professionals: What is Data vs Analytics?
10:15 am - 11:30 am	Leveraging Data Analytics in Internal Auditing: Independence and Collaboration
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Case Study – What Types of Questions Should Auditors Ask?
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Lunch and Networking
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Understanding Auditor Priorities: Tailoring Your Approach
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm	Maximizing Impact: Designing Visualizations for Auditor Engagement
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm	Break
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm	Automated and ITGC Control Testing – Full Population Testing, Test of One, Sampling
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Continuous Analytic Solution – Case Study

	Phil Long USAA Phil Long is a Business Operations Analytics Director on the Strategic Insights and Analytics Team (SIAT) with USAA. His team supports the annual audit plan and assurance coverage by leveraging analytics to provide data driven insight. Prior to his current role Phil executed advanced analytics in the bank area as a Lead Decision Science analyst. Before USAA, Phil worked at Wells Fargo in various roles spanning all three lines of defense. He brings 11 years of risk assurance experience and 17+ years of diversified analytical roles, including ad hoc reporting, recurring/automated reporting and ETL. He has led multiple analytics teams, including business intelligence, decision science and risk assurance/KRI buildouts. Phil has worked with many different data environments and tools such as SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, Snowflake, Hadoop, and SAS, Anaconda, SSIS, Tableau, and Power BI. Phil holds a degree in Economics from Baylor University and an MBA from Mississippi State University. He lives in San Antonio, TX with his wife and 3 sons. In his spare time Phil enjoys running, spending time with family and going to car shows.

	Piyush Lashkare USAA Piyush is an Audit Data Analyst - Audit Manager (Senior) on the Strategic Insights and Analytics Team in Audit Services. His team supports the execution of the annual audit plan and assurance coverage of the control environment using data analytics and continuous auditing activities. Within USAA, Piyush has led the Technical Infrastructure Workstream for SIAT by engaging with Enterprise Architects and building the necessary roles and planned for the environment needed for analytics solutions. Piyush joined USAA in September 2021. Prior to joining USAA, Piyush worked at JPMorgan Chase and Co. as an Analytics Solution Manager in Professional Practices - Internal Audit Department. During his tenure at JPMorgan Chase and Co., he was responsible for developing, maintaining, enhancing analytics, quantitative models and reporting. He analyzed Control and Operational Risk Evaluation, Issue Clustering, tests to support audit activities, Continuous Monitoring, Risk Assessments and Obligations. Piyush began his data journey at Accenture, working as an Oracle Database Administrator for 4 years in India prior to getting his master's degree. With 10+ years of experience, Piyush is proficient in a range of database management systems such as Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Teradata and Snowflake. Piyush also have experience in Piyush has experience working with - SAS Enterprise Guide and Miner, Tableau, Python, SQL, Power BI, SPSS Modeler, JMP Pro, MicroStrategy, QlikView, and Alteryx. Piyush holds a Master's in Business Analytics from Oklahoma State University and a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from Nagpur University, India. In his spare time, Piyush loves hiking and Teslas and most recently has begun picking up on Pickle Ball.

	Nicole Davis-Brown USAA Nicole currently serves USAA as an Audit Data Analyst - Audit Manager (Senior) on the Strategic Insights and Analytics Team (SIAT) team. Nicole started her USAA career as a Decision Science Analyst II in November 2020 on the SIAT team and quickly moved up the ranks to her current role in June 2022. Her team supports the execution of the annual audit plan and assurance coverage of the control environment using data analytics and continuous auditing activities. Nicole mainly supports the Insurance team but has also supported Bank and Risk audit teams. Prior to joining USAA in November 2020, Nicole was a Health Plan Clinical Analytics Consultant for CVS Caremark. Nicole has extensive experience working cross-functionally to accomplish a common goal. Nicole has 6+ years of experience working with various data environments and tools: SAS, SQL Server, Snowflake, Tableau, Teradata, Hadoop, Anaconda, SPSS, Stata. Nicole holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration, Info Sys, a M.Sc. in Data Analytics and is currently working towards a Doctoral of Business Administration (DBA) degree. Nicole also holds certifications relevant to Prescription Benefit Management from her previous experience in the pharmaceutical industry. In her spare time Nicole enjoys naps, food, working out, and spending time with her wife in no particular order. Nicole's pronouns are: She, Her, Hers

	Alex Bymaster USAA Alex Bymaster is an Audit Data Analyst - Audit Manager (Senior) on Strategic Insights and Analytics focusing on providing well designed analytics to support our audit teams and help reduce risk for USAA. Prior to joining USAA in April 2023, Alex was Lead Analytics Consultant for Wells Fargo, where he performed data analytics for the Consumer Lending Audit Team and built dashboards to monitor controls on a continuous basis. He is an experienced analyst with an actuarial background in Property & Casualty Insurance and an audit analytics background Banking. Alex has worked with SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, SAS, Power BI, Tableau, Tableau Prep, Visual Studio and Alteryx. Alex holds a BS in Mathematics, from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has also successfully passed multiple actuarial exams over the course of his career. In his spare time, Alex loves working with his hands, cooking and spending time with his family.

	Nick Buchanan Wells Fargo Nick Buchanan is an Audit Senior Manager on the Innovation Team at Wells Fargo. His team supports the Chief Operating Office (COO) and Shared Services Operations (SSO) audit teams by providing continuous audit support, proactive analytic insights, and data driven solutions. In addition, Nick supports the Branch Banking audit team and leads the risk-based branch selection tool assisting auditors with their on-site reviews. Nick has been with Wells Fargo Internal Audit in an analytics capacity for 7 years. Prior to Wells, Nick worked at Starwood Hotels and Apollo Education Group in audit and analytic roles. He brings 13 years of risk, audit, and analytics experience. Nick is also skilled in various data tools such as SQL Server, Oracle, SAS, Anaconda, Hadoop, Tableau, and Power BI. Nick holds a degree in Criminal Justice from SUNY College at Brockport and is an active Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). He lives in Phoenix, AZ with his wife. In his spare time, he enjoys cars, racing, and many different types of sports.