Andrew Wieser

Andrew has been a part of Protiviti’s Internal Audit & Financial Advisory practice since 2014 and transferred to the UK office in 2016. He is a member of Protiviti’s Global SOX champions network, UK co-lead of the Controls Advisory offering, and a member of the global leadership council of Protiviti’s LGBT+ network, proPRIDE. Prior to joining Protiviti, he was an external auditor in the big four for over two years. During his career, Andrew has serviced and project managed numerous global clients spanning a variety of different industries, supporting both through co-sourced and outsourced audits. Additionally, Andrew is an expert in supporting clients’ internal controls over financial reporting, including SOX readiness, rationalisation, ongoing compliance assistance and controls optimisation.

Major Projects

• Project Management: Directed the Global PMO team for an insurance company across 14+ countries and 100+ team members, including offshore team in India. These PMO activities included executive stakeholder communication, deployment logistics, engagement economics, innovation implementation and other management activities. Additionally was the lead UK co-source audit point of contact for multiple global clients in manufacturing and distribution (including automobile glass repair), automobile dealership, digital gaming, and cosmetic industries. This included stakeholder engagement, coordination of resources, timelines, budgets and quality of execution.
• Engagement Management: Managed multiple internal audit engagements in multiple industries, including internal audit and financial controls projects. This included projects around SOX, JSOX, IT, Fraud Investigation, a bank reconciliation remediation, GDPR readiness and accounts payable. Planned, budgeted, scheduled, resourced, defined expectations and standards, onboarded and trained, then QA’ed deliverables with feedback and provided periodic status updates and final reports to key stakeholders. All projects were completed timely and within the approved budget.
• Sarbanes Oxley:  Assisted and managed multiple “year one” SOX clients through conducting on-site interviews and documenting process narratives and flows. Identified risk areas and control gaps in the client’s internal controls. Created and updated risk control matrices (RCM) for relevant business process areas and assisted in determining the classification of controls (key vs. non-key). Created test plans, tested, and reviewed controls from “year one” SOX clients. Also assisted and managed multiple “year two” clients through performing control rationalization by assuring the relevant risks and assertions were mitigated.  Coached process and control owners to ensure proper remediation of prior deficiencies, process gaps, and provided process improvements to create a more effective and efficient control environment. Assisted and Managed multiple mature SOX programmes in various industries.
• Internal Control Documentation: Conducted interviews and performed and reviewed control process walkthroughs. Documented current state processes in flow charts and narratives to identify areas of improvement to strengthen the client’s controls. Evaluated the design effectiveness of current controls and assisted in designing remediation plans.
• Internal Controls Testing: Documented, designed test plans for, performed, and reviewed internal controls testing for companies in the energy, insurance, healthcare, telecommunication, retail and consumer goods, and manufacturing industries in all process areas. Tested the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls, including evaluating the adequacy of management’s review, critical spreadsheets, entity level controls, IT application controls, and the completeness and accuracy of reports.

Areas of Expertise

• Internal Audit
• SOX Readiness, Optimisation & Compliance
• Controls Advisory, Testing and Transformation
• Business Process Improvement
• Financial Statement Audit

Industry Expertise

• Manufacturing & Distribution
• Retail & Consumer Goods
• Digital Gaming
• Renewable Energy
• Insurance
• Healthcare
• Telecommunications
• Direct Sales

Education

• Masters of Accountancy – Bradley University
• B.S. – Accounting – Bradley University

Certifications

• Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)