Strategies of the New Age GRC Professional

Whether you are in audit, compliance or risk, the demand for GRC professionals who can combine best-practice risk assurance activities with innovative non-traditional analysis is growing at an exciting pace. In this session, we will look at the obsolescence of the traditional methods and introduce you to new tools and techniques that directly impact the value-based outcomes of many GRC professionals today.

Learning Objectives:

In this 60 minute webinar we will cover:

• How to illuminate opportunities to increase strategic awareness across varied assurance activities.
• How you can make small foundational changes to how processes, risks, and controls are captured and socialized across your organization.
• How to find material time savings by automating repetitive projects and focusing on emerging business objectives

Presenter:

Sergiu Cernautan – Director, GRC Strategy, ACL Services

Sergiu Cernautan is a designated Certified Public Accountant (CPA – Alaska) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) with more than 18 years of external audit, internal audit, and risk and regulatory compliance consulting experience. After working at Deloitte and KPMG for more than 14 years, he co-founded Straight Talk Consulting Ltd., a consultancy firm providing GRC consulting services. His background covers financial, operational and systems auditing. He specializes in the areas of internal controls over financial reporting, regularity compliance, business process control reviews, general computer controls, litigation claims support, and data analytics. Currently Sergiu is the Director, GRC Strategy at ACL and is responsible for product content strategy and market influencer relationship management for ACL’s industry-leading software products. Sergiu holds a Magna Cum Laude Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from the University of Alaska Anchorage.