Ivan N.

About Ivan N.

Mission Possible: Balancing process enablement and controls. I listen actively to…

Experience

1. Application Security Audit Manager - Finance Operations

   Hearst

   Aug 2018 — Present

   At Hearst, a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with major interests including ownership in cable television networks such as ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston, which reach a combined 19% of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as San Francisco Chronicle; more than 300 magazines around the world, I provide application risk management services by monitoring the security of business applications including Oracle ERP Cloud Financials and Human Capital Management (HCM), SAP ECC, and Salesforce as well as recommending opportunities for improvements in processes and controls. I am also responsible for managing the transformation of business processes leveraging Oracle Cloud ERP and Salesforce Net Zero Cloud (NZC) technology by collaborating with systems integrators and business partners in an ongoing enterprise-wide effort to streamline business applications to enable improved effectiveness and security of a modern finance function. Examples of finance transformation projects include 1. Replacing legacy accounting systems with Oracle Cloud ERP technology as part of additional business unit rollouts. Automating data collection of greenhouse gas emissions for carbon accounting and analysis, as part of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) framework. Designing and testing improved process controls. Deploying access, configuration and financial transaction monitoring controls, enabled by FastPath technology. Custom Oracle Cloud application security design and remediation. Use of analytics to identify finance process improvement opportunities. Identifying use cases for robotic process automation (using UiPath RPA vendor tools).

Education

• Wisconsin School of Business

  BBA with honors, Accounting and Finance double major

  1992 — 1995

• Harvard Business School Executive Education

  Certificate of Completion, Managing Cybersecurity Risk in the Information Age

  2017 — 2018

• Raffles Institution

  General Cambridge Education(GCE), "A" levels in Computer Science, Physics, Elementary and Advanced Math, General Paper and Mandarin

  1987 — 1988

Skills

• Consulting
• IT Strategy
• Oracle
• IT Audit
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Governance
• Cisa
• Internal Controls
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Pmo
• Auditing
• Management
• Business Analysis
• Integration
• Erp
• Business Process
• Process Improvement
• IT Management
• Oracle Ebs Security
• Internal Audit
• Project Management
• Oracle Advanced Controls
• IT Outsourcing
• Risk Management
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Business Process Improvement