Pawel Mentel

Since 01.02.2006 – Lead (Senior) Auditor

My main duties as Lead (Senior) Auditor was to perform audits all over the world and managing the team during the engagement.

Main responsibilities:
- Preparing ‘engagement program’ in cooperation with supervisors
- Managing engagements and project team ‘on field’ – organization the projects (time management, logistic issues etc.), assigning the task within the team members, performing analyses and controlling the jobs done by individuals in the team (junior auditors, auditors), gather all results of analyses in order to achieve engagement objectives.
- cooperation with audited company management, leading ‘opening’ and ‘closing’ presentations, presentation and discussion results of the audit;
- preparing ‘action plans’ in order to ensure that processes and controls in the companies are working effectively.
- preparing reporting package – opening and closing presentations, audit reports, description of analysis performed etc.

Topics of the projects performed as Senior Auditor:
- purchasing of direct and indirect materials, services,
- accounts payable,
- sales and incentives,
- marketing functions,
- accounts receivable and credit collection,
- order acquisition and long term contracts management
- intercompany reconciliation

01.04.2005 – 01.02.2006 Auditor
2005 was year of the SOX for most of auditors in Fiat Group – depending on Group needs I was responsible for:
- mapping of the main processes in legal entities (processes description, controls identification, etc.)
- helping companies in designing additional controls in order to meet SOX requirements,
- testing of companies’ controls for effectiveness and efficiency,
- giving guidance on issues found during testing and suggesting possible solutions,
- cooperation with legal entities managements in order to prepare companies for ‘positive Sox certification’.

Besides activity described above, in September 2005 I was also a member of the team performing general review audit (I was working as auditor).

01.04.2005 – 01.04.2005 Junior Auditor
Conducting analyses, checks in following areas of operational and financial audits:
- financial audit
- business ethics
- outsourcing services
- purchasing of services
-intercompany reconciliation

RESPONSIBILITIES: costs calculation and costs booking for 3 companies: Paged Meble S.A. w Jasienicy, Paged-Fabryki Mebli Sp. z o.o., Fabryka Mebli Giętych Sp. z o.o..;

buyer responsible for purchasing indirect materials and services, since October responsible also for purchasing of investments goods (machines and services, e.g. installations, maintenance) Except market research and selecting the best quotation I was also responsible for designing contracts for the most valuable purchases.