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Petra Jurgova
Internal Control Manager Europe
Amsterdam Nieuw-West,North-Holland
Summary
Outgoing individual with well-honed organizational, labor and teamwork skills. Enthusiastic and team-driven with 20 years of experience working in busy chemical, steel and telecom environments handling internal controls frameworks and compliance issues to meet all controls guidance mandates. Mastery of complex SOX and other control guidelines and impact on cultivating official, follow-able policy. Special focus on automation of processes, optimizing controls and generating best practices.
CIA certified professional and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Strongly result-driven professional who continuously looks for ways to drive change/improve and deliver high quality.
Both a 'helicopter' perspective and high attention to detail when speaking to different levels of management, sparring partner on process improvement while being in control. Strong independent contributor and strong team player.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
5
5
Languages
Work History
Freelancer - Internal Controls, SOX, Audit
PJ SOX And Audit Consulting
Haarlem
04.2023 - Current
- Available for internal controls and SOX assignments
- Multiple years of internal controls experience in multinational companies
- Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes and achieved 0 deficiency rate, 100% efficiency in controls framework testing/results
- Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance
- Onboarded new employees with training and new hire documentation
- Continuous improvement of controls framework via automation, standardization, performance management and ongoing monitoring
ICL Europe SOX Manager
ICL Europe BV
Amsterdam
12.2017 - Current
- Achieved 100% control efficiency with 240 controls in scope during fully remote work schedule (covid-19 period).
- Leading internal controls automation projects with control and business owners across global teams. Tracked project and team members performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.
- Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated to other control owners relating to controls quality and communicated clearly with stakeholders to keep everyone on same page and working toward established control goals.
- Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to client
- Reported regularly to senior management on SOX progress, controls quality changes and issues and their resolution
- Established internal control priorities, maintained schedules and monitored internal controls performance, maximized internal controls quality performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
- Increased efficiency and continuously improve and align existing internal control framework in Europe
- Created end-to-end process flowcharts of all corporate SOX and non-SOX related processes (Revenues, Treasury, Tax, Accounting, Reporting, Purchase to Pay, Cash, Inventory, Payroll & Fixed Assets) and leading internal control automation projects.
- Resolved staff member conflicts, actively listening to concerns and finding appropriate middle ground.
- Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes for internal controls, Q&A activities & internal audits, GRC maintenance
- Managed all planning & testing activities internally and externally including review of tests; and reporting to global team and to local senior management
- Helped implement SOX tool for ICL Europe (Generica).
- Effectively performed deficiency and root cause analysis achieved 100% success rate after testing and threshold analysis for all relevant controls.
- Cross-trained existing employees to maximize control owner`s performance
- Onboarding training for new controls owners and provided company wide training on SOX and internal controls.
- Developed and maintained professional and respectful relationships with internal customers and external auditors, senior management, Global SOX team and Internal Audit.
- Maintained open communication by presenting regular updates on project status to customers
Manager Internal Controls Compliance
Liberty Global
Schiphol-Rijk
05.2016 - 11.2017
- Increased efficiency and continuously improve existing internal control framework via end-to-end process flowcharting all corporate SOX related processes (Treasury, Tax, Accounting, Reporting, Purchase to Pay, Cash, Inventory, Payroll & Fixed Assets) and rationalized up to 18% of control framework with cost saving up to 30K EUR on annual basis.
- Performed walkthrough, self assessment, risk assessment and threshold analysis for all relevant controls.
- Launched SOX on-line workflow for control documentation and trained up to 120 control owners in SOX system.
- Ensured successful transfer of control activities to 2 different locations in Europe and Asia.
- Managed all planning & testing activities internally and externally including review of tests and reporting to management.
- Performed deficiency and root cause analysis achieved 80% success rate after testing.
- Introduced report inventory (End User Computing).
- Developed and maintained strong relationship with business & senior management, Internal Audit and Risk Management to determine key risk areas that needs process improvement.
Sr. Internal Auditor
SPP - distribúcia, a.s.
Bratislava
09.2015 - 03.2016
- Created annual audit plan approved by senior management and board of directors
- Performed end-to-end audits from audit programs, audit testing, execution including reporting to senior management
- Identified lost revenue in amount of 87K EUR on annual basis on O2C cycle
- Identified inefficiency in unauthorized gas off-take processes which led to cut 20% of process duration
- Performs mainly operational, compliance and/or fraud audits on all business cycles
- Maintaining excellent communication channels with all levels of management being sparring partner for internal clients within organizations
Process Specialist & Credit Risk Specialist
innogy SE
Kosice
07.2010 - 09.2015
- Credit Risk Management Specialist - Introduced consolidated dual power B2B accounts receivable reporting to sr management & business users
- Managed credit risk insurance
- Process Specialist: Responsible for setting up corporate policies and procedures for gas sales to B2B & B2C customers
- Created policies and procedures in line with primary and secondary legislation, rules of national gas distributor, company internal rules and internal SAP requirements
- Optimized customer life-cycle processes (customer acquisition, re-connection, disconnection, financial service processes)
- Optimized acquisition process with success rate starting from 30% up to 80% of acquired customers
- Performed Kaizen in customer acquisition process with result of EUR 8K in margin
- Cooperated on projects such as entry to mass markets of B2B and B2C segments
- Provided trainings, ad hoc e-learning to all internal users up to 100FTE
Senior Auditor
Liberty Global
Amsterdam
10.2007 - 06.2010
- Responsible for all aspects of audit cycle for operational, financial, due diligence, SOX audits and fraud investigations across 14 branches in Europe.
- Completed audit papers by thoroughly documenting audit tests and findings.
- Worked independently & part of team dependent on size of audit requirement including ad hoc projects.
- Maintained excellent communication channels within business.
Manager Security and Internal Controls
United States Steel Corporation
Pittsburgh
01.2007 - 10.2007
Internal Auditor
United States Steel Corporation
Kosice
02.2004 - 01.2007
Fleet Accountant
GE
Amsterdam
09.2002 - 08.2003
Assistant Auditor
KPMG
Luxembourg
01.2003 - 07.2003
Education
Certified Internal Auditor -
Certified Internal Auditor, CIA
Remote 01.2009 - 08.2009
MBA - Master of Business Administration
Univesity of Economics, Faculty of Business Administration
Bratislava 09.1996 - 06.2001
Skills
Microsoft Officeundefined
Websites
Certification
First Certificate in English, University of Oxford, 98CSK0030030
Software
Generica
SAP
Timeline
Freelancer - Internal Controls, SOX, Audit
PJ SOX And Audit Consulting
04.2023 - Current
ICL Europe SOX Manager
ICL Europe BV
12.2017 - Current
Manager Internal Controls Compliance
Liberty Global
05.2016 - 11.2017
Sr. Internal Auditor
SPP - distribúcia, a.s.
09.2015 - 03.2016
Process Specialist & Credit Risk Specialist
innogy SE
07.2010 - 09.2015
Certified Internal Auditor -
Certified Internal Auditor, CIA
01.2009 - 08.2009
Senior Auditor
Liberty Global
10.2007 - 06.2010
Manager Security and Internal Controls
United States Steel Corporation
01.2007 - 10.2007
Internal Auditor
United States Steel Corporation
02.2004 - 01.2007
Assistant Auditor
KPMG
01.2003 - 07.2003
Fleet Accountant
GE
09.2002 - 08.2003
MBA - Master of Business Administration
Univesity of Economics, Faculty of Business Administration
09.1996 - 06.2001
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