An experienced Consultant with deep expertise in the Banking Sector, specializing in data quality management, process review, and internal controls. With a decade dedicated to auditing, she has become adept at identifying and mitigating risks, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, and maintaining the integrity of financial processes for prominent clients based in Europe. Since transitioning to advisory roles in 2016 in Asia, she has leveraged her expertise to develop robust risk management strategies, navigate complex regulatory landscapes, and ensure adherence to compliance requirements.
Led a global remediation program integrating data from Finance, Procurement, and Compliance across 800 legal entities. Defined a worldwide data-driven methodology aligned with Finance and ABC Compliance sponsors. Developed risk-based data inventories and control mappings based on AFA requirements. Designed assessment and testing frameworks including mapping, control self-assessment, scoring and reporting. Managed senior stakeholders and presented data-backed remediation strategies to CFOs and Group leadership.
Achieved 90% participation coverage across the Group, ensuring high-quality, comprehensive datasets. Reinforced Finance and Procurement control plans through the creation of new AFA controls. Delivered a data-driven governance framework recognized as best practice by the AFA.
Identified and mapped data providers, data owners and process owners, as well as data receivers, to establish clear end-to-end accountability across the data chain. Defined and implemented Level 1 and Level 2 data quality controls, ensuring structured monitoring, validation and escalation mechanisms. Documented key data transformation, aggregation, and control processes to enhance transparency, traceability, and alignment between upstream data producers and downstream consumers.
Defined and implemented governance reference frameworks formalizing responsibilities between data providers and data receivers, strengthening accountability across reporting streams. Enhanced data lineage visibility and audit readiness through structured documentation of transformation and control processes. Improved ownership clarity and reinforced the overall data quality control environment.
Managed cross-border data and regulatory stakeholders across Hong Kong to support the implementation of IFRS 9 requirements. Translated regulatory requirements (Impairment, Classification & Measurement) into structured data processes, controls and system flows. Designed and facilitated workshops to align business, risk, finance and IT stakeholders on data feasibility, control acceptability and operating model adjustments.
Mapped and documented IFRS 9 end-to-end data flows, including data sources, IT systems, control points and control ownership. Documented and formalized more than 20 IFRS 9 SOX controls, strengthening the regulatory data control framework. Performed walkthroughs and tested the operating effectiveness of key data and financial controls ensuring audit readiness and compliance alignment.