Wesley Hagemann

Experience

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  Auditor General of South Africa

  Oct 2005 - Dec 2011

  Audit Manager

  My responsibilities included:• Nurturing internal and external stakeholders relationships • Managing relationship, workflow and quality of work of contracted staff (PWC, KPMG)• Team member of the United Nations Board of Auditors working on the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) based in New York and the United Nations Mission to Liberia (UNMIL) based in Liberia• Perform internal control system analysis on clients’ business processes and recommend improvements • Review and implementation of audit plans to ISA standards, including decisions relating to risk and required audit responses• Concluding and reporting for the audit assignment, including assessment of management’s representations and comments• Member of the team formulating the audit approach for non-financial reporting as well as training interventions for staff• Assisting with and use of CAAT’s (Computer Assisted Audit Techniques) in audit• Member of the technical committee within the local office involved in technical dialogues regarding accounting and auditing standards, their interpretation and implementation• Maintaining a mentorship role with allocated junior staff to ensure their professional development, team involvement and workplace satisfaction• Planning and maintaining audit and overall team budgets to achieve strategic goals Show less

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  Adidas group

  Mar 2012 - Jan 2013

  Audit Manager - Global Internal Audit

  My responsibilities at adidas included: • Carry out an independent appraisal of the effectiveness of the policies, procedures and standards by which the Group's financial, physical and information resources are managed• Add value by acting as a facilitator in business risk management thereby assisting the management in the effective discharge of their responsibilities• Plan, organise and carry out the internal audit function including the preparation of an audit plan which fulfills the responsibility of the department, scheduling and assigning work and estimating resource needs• Report to both the audit committee and management on the policies, programmes and activities of the Group• Make recommendations on the systems and procedures being reviewed, report on the findings and recommendations and monitor management's response and implementation• Interaction with other internal control stakeholders in the adidas Group ie Risk Management and Group Policies and Internal Controls• Conduct any reviews or tasks requested by the audit committee, CEO or CFOExposure:I was a team member in several internal audit reviews or follow-up reviews of Group country offices globallyI was involved in reviewing business processes to ensure that Group’s policies were well structured and improve the internal controls over operationsAssisted in the audit of the global IT security effectiveness of the Group, providing me with insight to the Group IT operations I was a member of the Team involved in the stabilisation of operations and forensic investigation of a subsidiary after financial irregularities were identified and corrective action was required Show less

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  Auditor General of South Africa

  Feb 2013 - Dec 2014

  Audit Manager

  My responsibilities included:• Nurturing internal and external stakeholders relationships • Quality Reviewer of audit files of teams nationally (limited to top experienced staff)• Managing relationship, workflow and quality of work of contracted staff (PWC, KPMG)• Team member of the United Nations Board of Auditors working on the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) based in New York and the United Nations Mission to Liberia (UNMIL) based in Liberia• Perform internal control system analysis on clients’ business processes and recommend improvements • Review and implementation of audit plans to ISA standards, including decisions relating to risk and required audit responses• Concluding and reporting for the audit assignment, including assessment of management’s representations and comments• Member of the team formulating the audit approach for non-financial reporting as well as training interventions for staff• Assisting with and use of CAAT’s (Computer Assisted Audit Techniques) in audit• Member of the technical committee within the local office involved in technical dialogues regarding accounting and auditing standards, their interpretation and implementation• Maintaining a mentorship role with allocated junior staff to ensure their professional development, team involvement and workplace satisfaction• Planning and maintaining audit and overall team budgets to achieve strategic goals Show less

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  Eastern Cape Provincial Treasury

  Jan 2015 - Mar 2017

  Chief Director: Financial Management Specialist

  Provide professional skill and experience for the financial analysis of entities, maintenance of internal control systems, resource decision-making and interpreting accounting frameworks. Responsibilities include:• Prepare beneficial analytical review reports to inform executive management decision making• Continuously review internal control systems and ensure audit findings (internal and external) are resolved to strengthen internal control environments• Planning and implementing ongoing enhancements to BI reporting• Lead analysis and solution finding to complex accounting issues where accounting framework and policy interpretation is required• Review multiple entities financial performance in order to recommend operational improvements• Review budget projections and actual spending to enforce the achievement of targets• Lead interventions where audit findings need to be resolved to avoid qualified audit reports. These interventions have been successful in correcting material audit concerns• Interact with executive management to ensure they are receiving adequate support from my Team• Lead Treasury’s engagements with external auditors to resolve technical accounting queries• Regularly monitor entities that have breached SCM policies and advise with corrective guidance• Team member (finance stream) in Treasury’s PMO for the introduction of a new ERP system• Inform CFO’s and finance Teams of changes to accounting frameworks and their impact• Represent Treasury on multiple meeting platforms, including Audit Committees, oversight bodies and external auditorsSuccesses:Involved in several projects requiring in depth analysis and recommendationsActively led analysis to complex accounting issues for solutions to unorthodox scenariosProject managed an HR improvement process to reduce time taken to recruit staffProvided technical support to several clients were accounting standards interpretation and policy compliance was required Show less

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  Adidas

  Mar 2017 - now

  Within the Brand, Sales & HQ Finance function, I am privileged to collaborate with colleagues across the Company. This includes:Supporting my Head Office Director in sourcing data and building reports for our SVP and the Board as well as managing requests from several areas to ensure requests are met timely.Interacting with Stakeholders across the Company to manage requests, source information or align messages to be conveyed.Assigned to Projects on our GBS finance interactions as well as implementing Business Partner Due Diligence in the Company.Interact with Internal Audit to implement actions on audit report items.Managing and completing the IC testing within the Company, to strengthen the Companies control environment.Collaborated with Global Internal Controls on enhancements to Control Framework and reviewing new/updated Company policies.Through sport we have the power to change lives. Show less

  • Director Compliance: Strategy & Operations

    Feb 2021 - now

  • Brand, Sales & HQ Finance: Senior Manager Internal Controls

    Mar 2017 - Feb 2021