Sarbanes Oxley Act - External SOX compliance specialist

SOX - Sarbanes Oxley Act

Dipl.Oec. Corry Werkmeister

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Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) defines the regulations for US-stock registered companies, Foreign Private Issuers and all other enterprises voluntarily planning or exercising the implementation of internal financial control systems.

Based on the control framework of the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), I develop individual, effective and efficient internal controls and audit systems as well as report structures that ease achievement of reliability of financial reporting.

Risk Assessment Analysis is one out of a set of useful control weakness measures.
To guarantee a functioning internal financial control system concerning SOX compliance perspectives, the creation of narratives, control matrices and the documentation of monitoring testing activities is required.

Segregation of duties (SoD) and specified rights of system-accesses, examination of controlling instruments like Excel spreadsheet controls are just examples of necessary tools to be implemented.

Having experience over several years being an Internal Finance Auditor and since 2003 as a Senior Financial Analyst with responsibility for SOX compliance for one of the world´s biggest automotive suppliers at several locations all over Europe & Africa with a heterogeneous IT- and organisational structure, it is one of my expertises to deal with new processes and IT-environments, to detect weaknesses and convert to strengthen procedures.

I speak fluent german, english, spanish and italian.