Welcome screen.
Thank you for this opportunity to meet with you and present on what skills and experience I can bring to to the Compliance, Forensics and Intelligence area of Controls Risks Australia Pacific.

I've had the pleasure of meeting Mark previously, but for the remainder of the panel, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm a Certified Fraud Examiner and Chartered Accountant with a total of 10 years experience across Compliance, Forensic Accounting and Intelligence.

2003 - 2007
Focus was obtaining client facing commercial accounting and compliance experience. I performed financial statement and regulatory audits for companies ranging from small proprietary to listed companies, at a graduate to senior accountant level. My commercial experience was as an External Auditor at KPMG and with a small Chartered Accounting Firm, Armstrong Parnters. I sought out the combination of BIg 4 and small Chartered Accounting firm experience, in order to expose myself to the accounting and compliance issues faced by small to medium business, as well as large corporates.
2007 - 2013
I leveraged off my commercial accounting and compliance experience to enter the Forensic Accounting specialisation in June 2007. My role as Forensic Financial Analyst at Office of Police Integrity VIC was within the Intelligence Unit. As a result of working in this unit, I obtained invaluable intelligence profiling experience in addition to forensic financial analysis tasks during the course of investigations.
2014
Established my own forensic accounting and financial investigations consultancy business post maternity break.
2015
Commenced role as Senior Forensic Accountant at ICAC NSW.

CFI currently has a strong crisis response focus in financial and corporate investigations. My business development goal is to leverage off that reputation to provide financial crime risk management services to CFI's existing at-risk clients.

I have been formally trained in Financial Crime Risk Management by ACFE, have access to international best practice tools and have performed Fraud Risk Assessments and assisted Corruption Prevention Units of various anti-corruption agencies to build Financial Crime Risk Management Plans.

In addition to the above, my work experience for anti-corruption agencies across Victoria, Tasmania and NSW has identified a corruption prevention opportunity for the private sector. Currently, Corruption Prevention Units prepare Financial Crime Risk Management Assessments on government departments being investigated. A public report is prepared summarizing the results of this assessment and recommended changes to the departments internal controls framework to avoid further cases of corruption. The department is required to provide a public response to this report outlining what steps they have or will be taking to manage their corruption risk in the future. However, post this report, there is little or no follow-up to assist the organisation to implement the recommended internal controls framework and perform ongoing financial crime risk management assessments. The Auditor General's Office also has limited resources directed towards to the above corruption risk management activities.

It would be beneficial for CFI to liaise with the Corruption Prevention Unit of the relevant anti-corruption agency once the investigation has gone overt. This would position CFI to assist the government department in responding to the identified risks and limited reputational damage.