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Elie Festinger

Supervisor (CISA) at PricewaterhouseCoopers - Paris & Madrid

Madrid - Spain

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Dynamic and committed professional with more than 5 years experience in audit in France and Spain. Mostly Focus on Internal Control and business process reviews.

Planned, supervised and executed the day-to-day activities of IT audit engagements for a variety of clients including business process reviews, applications and IT General Controls reviews.

Skills:
- Ability to plan, organize and manage team in a diverse work environment
- Excellent interpersonal analytical and ability to communicate effectively and efficiently in writing and speaking with various levels of management
- Internal Audit and Business process internal control reviews
- ERP (SAP, JDE, Oracle) security and process controls reviews
- Evaluation and implementation of internal control systems and compliance with Sarbannes-Oxley act
- Hard working, strong communication skills and leadership abilities; trilingual (French, Spanish, English).

Auditing and Information Technology
- CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor), COBIT
- Certified SAP IT Auditor by PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Implication in Business Development activities: drafting audit proposals and designing marketing materials over SAP Compliance Tools (SAP MIC, Virsa tools - GRC suite), Data Quality Management and IT Governance
- Audit tools: Team Mate, ACL.
Specialties:

Industries:
- Pharmaceuticals
- Retails
- Automotive
- Food and Beverage
- Banking

Schools attended

Master SIEE (Master Systèmes d'Information de l'Entreprise Etendue)(mention Bien)
Université Paris Dauphine (MIAGE)(mention Bien)
Université Paris Dauphine (Deug MASS (Mathématiques Appliquées et Sciences Sociales))

Since 2004: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Paris, Madrid

Supervisor
Planning, supervising and executing the day-to-day activities of audit engagements for a variety of clients including the following fields of expertise:

• Business process internal control reviews:
Evaluated the design and effectiveness of controls related to the purchase, sale, inventory, fixed assets and financial consolidation business processes to support financial statutory audits.

• ERP security and controls reviews : SAP, JD Edwards, Oracle
Assessed and improved business processes security and controls in ERP environments.

• Internal audit and Advisory services (elaboration of an IT Audit methodology, ERP Selection Process Diagnostic review)

• Compliance implementations and reviews with the Sarbanes Oxley Act Section 404 and compliance requirements.
Sector: Finance

2003 - 2004 : Banque de France, Paris – General Inspection

Junior IS Internal Auditor
Performed IT audit engagements within the Internal and IT Audit department, consisting in auditing, monitoring and analyzing the information systems of the Bank, in order to enhance processes, manage risks and help them to confront critical issues head on.

Major assignments:
• Audit of the SAP-HR implementation project for the Human Resources department’s information system.
• Audit of the purchase cycle (Oracle Applications).
Sector: Banking

2002 - 2003 : Sage / Kabira / Inalco

Interships
During education programs, integrated within MIS departments at Sage France (4 months), Kabira Technologies (3 months), and Inalco (8 months), involved within IS projects such as:

• Deployment of a reporting tool (CRM, planning, scorecard) on the Intranet to optimize and facilitate management of the consultants.

• Audit of the domain computers’ management to optimize and to reinforce security over the different environments, in collaboration with the IS director based in the UK.

• Provide administration of the local network and helpdesk support to the users in collaboration with central IS manager.

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