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Associate Manager, Internal Audit & Controls

Top Management

Passionate about improving company efficiency, project management, and rescuing dogs.

Project Manager for several ad hoc projects	

Perform testing, documentation, and evaluation of business processes and controls while identifying and remediating areas of risk to the business

Conduct SMART audits of US boutiques on a yearly basis

Managed a Global Leadership Risk Assessment Workshop 

Evaluate and approve access rights to the ERP system and perform yearly audits of all user access

Co-lead of the Crisis Management Team and primary manager of the Business Continuity Plan

Provided internal control consulting to Benefit UK and Benefit SAS

Manage internal control reporting to parent company for all Benefit Cosmetics subsidiaries 

Responsible for the preparation of journal entries, account reconciliations, and account analysis

Contributed 30% of capacity to the Partner Revenue Share team by analyzing monthly partner data. Streamlined reconciliations to decrease manual processes

Responsible for providing month-over-month variance analysis for expense accounts by using Pivot Tables to manipulate large Excel data sets

Corporate Accountant

Responsible for managing the entire audit engagement from start to finish

Reviewed client accounting and operating procedures, performed internal control test work, monitored actual billable hours to budget, and conducted audit tests to support an audit opinion 

Coached new staff on engagement team and performed preliminary review of their work

Audit Associate

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Kimiko Sahakian: Associate Manager, Internal Audit & Controls

Kimiko Sahakian

University of Washington Bothell