Geoffrey Schroyer Managing Director Geoffrey is a Managing Director in Protiviti’s Technology Risk and Resilience practice. He is also responsible for leading Protiviti’s Austin office, serving our Central Texas market.He has primarily performed work for clients in the Financial Services, Retail, and Energy and Utilities industries. The majority of his experience has been focused on Technology Risk Management and Compliance, Project Management and Governance and IT Audit.Major ProjectsDirected a team responsible for onboarding of 100+ IT Risk Management and Compliance resources at a large integrated financial services firm. Built and operated a risk management program, providing effective challenge for IT process, risk and control artifacts in response to OCC consent orders and Fed MOUs, heavily relying on frameworks such as COBIT, NIST and the FFIEC handbooks.Directed 25+ resources both at one of the largest global insurance firms and a large American bank, each tasked with developing a program to govern design and validate logic in end-user applications, execute that program to review hundreds of high-risk spreadsheets, develop and deliver a training program to transition review responsibilities to a new offshore team and assist in an effort to revise existing policies, procedures and general program governance tools.Directed several projects in conjunction with legal counsel and boards of directors to assess system access, segregation of duties and mitigation of controls across the lending cycle at 14 regional lending cooperatives following a fraud event. Acted as Program and Project Manager over large teams in Compliance at a major bank, implementing surveillance software to monitor daily trading activity and identify potential fraud and compliance violations.Managed teams responsible for performing various IT internal audits in five international locations for multiple energy services companies, including activities such as analyzing and documenting IT processes and risks, identifying, documenting, and testing IT general controls, supporting remediation efforts and reporting findings to executive management.Areas of ExpertiseTechnology Risk Management and ComplianceTechnology GovernanceProgram and Project ManagementEnd User Application ServicesIT Internal AuditIndustry ExpertiseFinancial ServicesEnergy and UtilitiesRetailTechnologyEducationB.B.A., Management Information Systems / Business Honors – The University of Texas at AustinProfessional Memberships and CertificationsCISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor)ITIL Foundations (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association)
