This week, our guest is Melissa Pici, Sr. IT Audit Manager at Syniverse. In this episode, Melissa discusses the best ways to find and develop the Next Gen Auditors within your organization. We touch on topics including candidate screening during recruitment, team upskilling, and the critical significance of passion, curiosity, and drive in the audit profession.

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Timecodes:

2:36 – Internet Browsing History

6:17 - Internal Audit and Data Analytics

7:40 - Data Ccientists vs. Data Analysts

10:37 - Audit Analytics Conference

12:45 - Next Gen Auditors

18:03 - Screening Candidates for Passion, Curiosity, and Drive

21:07 - How to Upskill Your Team

25:38 - Accountability

28:42 - What is a Calibration Meeting

32:57 - Next Gen Managers

36:54 - Final Thoughts

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This week, our guest is Judson Aiken, Head of Risk and ESG Solutions at AuditBoard. In this episode, Judson delves into the realm of ESG and the SEC's climate-related disclosure rules. He discusses audit's role, where teams are on the maturity model, the timeline for compliance, and what Internal Audit should be doing next regardless of where they are now.

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Timecodes:

4:26 - Climate-Related Disclosure Are Here

5:18 - Implementing ESG in Various Maturity Models

7:48 - How to Start ESG

9:30 - The Social Aspect of ESG

10:58 - the Role of ESG in Audit

16:00 - Background for an ESG Controller

16:53 - SOX and ESG

19:50 - The Impact of ESG on ERM

22:33 - How to Begin the ESG Process

28:18 - Final Thoughts

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This podcast is brought to you by Greenskies Analytics, the services firm that helps auditors leap-frog up the analytics maturity model. Their approach for launching audit analytics programs with a series of proven quick-win analytics will guarantee the results worthy of the analytics hype.

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This week, our guest is Charlie Page, a curious value driven risk leader and Associate Director of Internal Audit at Verizon. In this episode, Charlie discusses how to issue audit reports faster. We explore methods for pinpointing bottleneck issues within audits, enhancing the data literacy of internal auditors, and contrasting the waterfall approach with Agile auditing methodologies.

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This podcast is brought to you by Greenskies Analytics, the services firm that helps auditors leap-frog up the analytics maturity model. Their approach for launching audit analytics programs with a series of proven quick-win analytics will guarantee the results worthy of the analytics hype.

Whether your audit team needs a data strategy, methodology, governance, literacy, or anything else related to audit and analytics, schedule time with Greenskies Analytics.