Master Class - September 2019

Audit Shop of the Future: Analytics & Visualization

Speaker
Tamsir Samb, CAMS, CISA, PRG Manager - Frazier & Deeter, LLC
 

Session Description

The swell of big data has increased pressure on audit professionals to analyze larger amounts of data to uncover fraud, potential threats while keeping up with changing regulatory requirements. This becomes even more challenging with the added expectations that the audit shop of the future needs to combine predictive analytics to plan for unexpected risk, apply continuous monitoring and use visualization to communicate with management.

This session compares data analytics and visualization tools and proven processes for building a data analytic library where each analytic step is recorded using IDEA, Tableau, and Excel to make processes both accessible and repeatable.
 

Learning Objectives

• Tips for selecting the right analytics tools
• How to build a data analytics library
• Strategies for getting management buying and making the best use of the library

Speaker Bio

Tamsir is a Financial Professional with over 15 years’ experience managing Audit engagements, Financial Reporting Compliance obligations, and analyzing financial data for multinational organizations and is CISA and CAMS certified.

He has a broad experience, which includes a background in regulatory Compliance, Audit and Structured Finance (Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities).Tamsir also has experience as a business consultant who helped nurture and provide assistance and business development strategies for startups and small businesses. He has also provided consulting services to firms such as the Coca-Cola Company.

Prior to joining the firm, Tamsir managed end to end components of the annual internal audit plan of a couple financial institutions, to ensure the reliability and integrity of information, compliance with policies and regulations, the safeguarding of assets, efficient use of resources and established operational objectives. Tamsir developed a Data Analytics program to help Audit get more insights and in the process be more efficient in its assurance function and how they spend their time and resources.

His other activities include nonprofit work; he is currently the Chairman of the board of directors of Safedev, a nonprofit based in Atlanta.