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IT Risk and Control Assessments 

  • Completed approximately 100 IT risk and control assessments over a 20+ year period.   
  • Industries include:
    • Financial Services - major tier banks, smaller tier banks, insurance, funds management, pension admin, FX
    • Manufacturing - international and Canadian wide food processors, steel, mining, brewing, wine, jewelry, autos, CD/DVD
    • Retail - Canadian wide grocery, department store, international fast food, photography, pharmaceutical, toys, books
    • Services - hospitals, government, electric and water utilities, printing, courier, property management, payroll/HR, lottery and gaming, schools and universities
    • Information Technology - global network systems provider, software providers, hosting providers, global personal device provider
    • Communications - national telecommunications and media provider 
  • Business processes examined include:
    • Mortgage, retail banking, capital markets, trust accounting, defined benefit/defined contribution, health and welfare administration, FX administration
    • End to end supply chain distribution, manufacturing, inventory management, procurement, sales, receivables, payables, asset management, payroll, revenue assurance 
  • Technologies include:
    • SAP, Oracle Financials, JD Edwards, Great Plains/MS Dynamics, 
    • Unix and Linux variants, iSeries, Windows, Mainframe (OS/390, RACF)
    • Oracle database, MS SQL, Progress database
  • Process/methodologies include:
    • COBIT - full and partial
    • ISO 27001/27002
    • Customized approach using various IT risk and control methodologies as necessary for the client situation
    • NIST cybersecurity framework
    • PMBOK
    • ITIL, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD
  • Project scopes:
    • Large - team lead for significant size engagements - example 7,000 hours using up to 15 personnel over multi-locations and multi-environments and processes
    • Small to Medium - team leader or solo on extensive range of assignments
  • Types of engagements:
    • Support for the external audit
    • Internal audit 
    • Special purpose advisory engagements
    • Special purpose compliance related for regulator, contractual compliance, accounting standard based
    • SOC1, SOC2 service provider assessments
    • ISO 27001 preparation and implementation
    • IT due diligence 
    • SOX/ICFR assessments - management advisory and as auditor 
    • ERM 
    • Revenue assurance