gareth muirhead

Currently working on various audit engagements as an Enterprise Performance Management specialist covering financial reporting, consolidation, budgeting and planning processes. This includes designing efficient controls based audit approaches for these clients by leveraging the system functionality and management controls around such systems. Systems include Hyperion, Cognos and SAP BPC. Have also acted as independent reviewer and performed post implementation reviews with a focus on improving the financial planning, budgeting and reporting processes to ensure best utilisation of the selected system and to implement a good practice model gave expert advice on security and controls over administration, maintenance, change management, reports and data handling; quality of policies and procedure documentation around financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes, and quality of information in the key group reporting packs for executive and board reporting.

Maintaining licensing and seal certifications through conducting and reporting on annual regulatory compliance reviews involving financial controls, back office operation controls, general computer controls, IT security controls and software development controls at clients within the online gaming industry. Conducting and supervising the compliance assessments for several jurisdictions, including Spain, Denmark, Isle of Man, and Alderney, together with seal reviews for the European Gaming and Betting Association and the eCOGRA Safe and Fair Seal. Initiated and implemented standards for the worlds biggest online payment provider and am responsible for managing, planning, performing and reporting to senior management on the results of compliance audits against these standards within the industry.

Key Roles & Accountabilities: Served as IT Auditor specialising in IT general controls and application controls, project implementation assurance and IT governance. Performed multiple financial audits of annual financial statements up to assistant manager level. Managed senior teams of up to 9 members. Planned and performed audits. Designed audit procedures. Conducted reviews (general control, application, operating systems, databases, financial). Employed computer-assisted auditing techniques (CAATs) | Managed, supervised, trained and reviewed juniors. Tested, analysed and improved clients’ controls | Compiled reports | Facilitated client meetings. Financial Audit Clients: Coca-Cola Fortune | Billabong | South African Red Cross Society | KFML Holdings | Governmental Department of Health | Grahamstown Foundation | Ostrimark SA. IT Audit Clients: Coca-Cola Fortune | Billabong | Volkswagen South Africa | Life Healthcare Ltd | Aspen Pharmacare Ltd | KFML Holdings | Rhodes University | Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University | BKB.

* In addition to Information Security Manager, my job title as Head of Technical Services include: * Managing the Technical Services Team consisting of SysOps, DevOps and DBA * Ensuring the Technical Services Team have agreed internal and external SLAs for service delivery that are met or exceeded * Streamlining and speeding up Technical Services Team processes through automation * Improving the quality and performance of Vuture’s technology platforms whilst managing costs within agreed budgets * Providing a secure, automated and highly available infrastructure for Vuture Technical Services * Building reactive and proactive monitoring and escalation processes for Technical Services and improving services through reporting insight

Director / Compliance Manager at eCOGRA

Degree structured in the Chartered Accountant discipline.

Activities and Societies: 2002/2003: Editor of the University Newspaper 2002 - 2005: Tutor in Computer Science