Julian du Plessis CA(SA); cell# (***)-***-****; email: ****@*****.*** I am a Governance, Risk, Audit Specialist and qualified chartered account with over 20 years of professional working experience, including nine years of professional Internal Audit working experience and three years of Risk Management. I served as Head of Internal audit at AVBOB (3 years) and Pick n Pay (6 years) as Head of Risk management at FirstRand Bank (3 years). Also, I have three years of financial management at Standard Insurance Limited, 31 months of Information Technology (IT) Audit at Nedbank and PwC, and 15 months of consulting at Deloitte. I am a qualified chartered accountant [CA(SA)] Has read for a masters degree, MPhil (Business Management) and an Advanced Diploma: Enterprise Risk Management at the University of Johannesburg. My background includes a proven track record of establishing cost-saving initiatives and offers a firm grasp of all aspects of asset management and protection, including audit and compliance and operational risk management for large organisations. Adept at utilising broad-based skills to enable easy collaboration among varying facets. I made contributions to creating more operationally efficient, secure, and synergistic organisations. A sample of key contributions includes: • Develop and execute the annual audit plan. • Provided independent assurance to the Audit Committee regarding the adequacy and effectiveness of internal control systems. • Led the execution of audits and the issuing of final audit reports to the accountable Retail Executives. • Reported to operational line management (business units) the weaknesses in the systems of internal controls. • Developed the Risk Governance Framework for management to oversee the results of Control Self Assessments. • Implemented best practices for the execution of internal audits and the development and enhancement of audit techniques. • Improved the staff's knowledge through periodic presentations on audit, governance, and management development topics. • Implemented the Audit Sampling Methodology. • Implemented the Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme. • Investigated the glass manufacturing industry to assess the pricing's reasonability to enable business partners to agree on the supply price. Analysed and confirmed the cost of capital for capital investment in the glass industry. • Analysed the cost structure and associate project cost for a mining project to ensure an equitable sharing of profits.