Carlos RODRIGUES

(since january 2004)

Activity of the company: worldwide manufacturing group which core business is the trucks building: Renault / Volvo / Mack.
Internal audit assignments :

As a senior auditor I managed 9 audit reviews within the Renault Trucks Legal Group:
- Working program construction and tests performance in collaboration with a junior auditor,
- The issues identified are validated with management,
- For each issue a recommendation is proposed,
These audits could be broken down in three categories: transversal processes (joint company and group matrix organization), limited perimeters such as dealers or subsidiaries, and subjects.

Sarbanes Oxley Act rollout :
Since October 2004 I have been in charge of the Sarbanes Oxley Act implementation for the Purchase & Payables perimeter (roughly 4.3 billion of euros) within the Renault Trucks SAS legal entity.
- Identification/Scoping of the processes to be documented or not,
- Production of the SOX documentation (narratives / flowcharts),
- Identification of the key controls in collaboration with the management,
- Active participation to the training of the line management (including the members of the new Internal Control Department) on what is SOX / Its responsibility / The SOX right mindset.
- Relation with the AB Volvo Group external auditors,

Secteur : Auto-Moto-Cycles

(September 2000 - December 2003)

Activity of the company: audit firm (worldwide network - RSM) specialized in the groups which business are based in length terms contracts (for instance: civil engineering, buildings constructions…

Audit assignments :
I led financial audits (roughly 60 assignments) as a senior auditor upon the accounts (general ledger analysis) of the following groups: VINCI and its subsidiaries (worldwide leader of the civil construction), SAIPEM SA (former Bouygues Offshore – one of the worldwide leader for pipelines and maritime works solutions), CHAMPAGNES CEREALES (European cereal supplier), and EIFFAGE (civil construction).
Other audit assignments :
- SAP rollout: accompanying of the Eurovia company (VINCI Group) for the implementation of the SAP application.
- Review of the internal control to prepare the closing (identification of the aims of improvement / validation of the issues with the management / recommendations): purchases flow, human resources, finance, and sales process.
- Cost price calculation and analysis / analysis of the construction sites budget. These analytical analysis were done to validate the general ledger accounts.

Secteur : Cabinet Comptable - Audit

Intership (June 1999 - August 1999)

Activity of the company: European company specialized in Ford genuine spare-parts.

Identification of new customers (dealers) within the Portuguese market (commercial offers).

Secteur : Distribution

Internship (July 1997 - September 1997)

Activity of the company: this hotel is member of the worldwide ACCOR Group.

- Accounting recurrent tasks (invoices registration / supplier relation management)
- Construction of the sales budget (year 1998) with the director of the hotel.

Secteur : Hôtels et restauration