Marty Sturino
Today more than ever, being in business requires dedication to growth and change. Managing the
day-to-day activities while ensuring that strategic change objectives are being achieved can stress
any organization. Marty offers the services you need when and where you need them based on:
- Independent analysis and assessments
- Innovative approaches to difficult problems
- Objective and unbiased research
- Confidential, sensitive and discrete analysis
The types of projects Marty can perform for your organization include the following:
- Successful Projects Seminar (new!) (Project team or assessment of success capabilities)
- New Auditor Training (new!) (individual or small group)
- Risk and Fraud Assessments
- Operational Audits
- Internal Controls Reviews
- Business Process Improvement Projects
- Post Implementation System Reviews
- Survey Development and Administration
Business Process Improvement Projects that require assistance or monitoring
Business critical projects take focused resources. The complexity of change in organizations today is
daunting. Often the organization must rely on relationships with third party providers to perform business-critical
tasks. Managing and controlling new projects stresses already scarce resources. Independent evaluations at
critical steps along the way offer opportunities for monitoring progress and making mid-course corrections.
An example of our services include upstream process and controls reviews and consulting for:
- Third party contacts
- Logistics Providers
- Inventory analysis
Traditional Operational Audits that protect the organization by focusing on compliance to policy,
procedures and training while testing controls, measuring process effectiveness and assessing efficiencies.
- Order to Cash - Customer Service - Credit - Invoicing - Accounts Receivable
- Forecast to Stock - Forecasting - Planning - Operations - Inventory - Accounts Payable
- Finance - Accounting to Reporting - Month-end Close
Annual / Independent Risk, Fraud and Opportunities Assessments
Let us develop and administer in-depth assessments of the organization and compile that data into meaningful
management information. The result is an invaluable and often eye-opening tool for executives.
Examples of our risk and opportunities assessment services follow:
- External or Environmental - The organizations ability to respond to the economy, politics, regulations
- Customer Facing - The ability to manage Trade, Products, Services and Customers
- Internal Operations - Staffing, skills, tools, effectiveness and efficiency of operations
- Internal Controls - Tone at the top, risk assessment, fraud and control activities, et
Survey Development and Administration
When specific information is required about a line of business or operational activity across a discrete group of
employees or constituents, we can tailor the questions, administer the survey and report the results to you. An
example of the types of surveys we can manage:
- Internal Controls Assessments - Awareness - Compliance - Effectiveness
- Specific Functional Assessments - New product processes - New process feedback - Customer
evaluations
Knowledge Transfer is key to our success
I'm not finished until we have developed and completed knowledge transfer steps
that ensure your team is prepared to perform any required sustain activities.
My office location is up
to you.
On-site or unseen, I am at
the ready.
Most important, you can count on me to deliver professional results.
Fees are based on staff, location and the term of engagement. All work performed is under confidentiality
agreements and subject to the terms of a consulting or independent contractor agreement. Weekly in-service
progress updates and cost reviews are essential. All work is based on a contract that we develop together.
The Control Review Framework
We use the COSO framework to define controls in terms of interaction, communications and activities
designed to ensure that the wishes and direction of management is carried out. We believe that the five control
components of the framework must be apparent and effective.
- Control Environment - The tone at the top that sets the business and moral direction of the organization
by leading by example, demonstrating a focus on business and ethical imperatives, the proper and
appropriate allocation of resources, penetration into the organization and consistency.
- Risk Assessment - The effectiveness of middle management to perform external and internal
assessments of events or situations that could prevent the organization from achieving its goals or acting
in an ethical manner.
- Control Activities - The quality of day-to-day checks and balances over transactions and processes
result in customer satisfaction, accuracy of operations and financial reporting.
- Systems and Communication - The ability of computer and other information systems to convey
accurate and timely information to allow management to perform proper risk assessments and take
corrective actions before problems get out of hand.
- Monitoring - The use of independent analysis to confirm or deny the quality of processes and systems
for performing key activities and achieving the goals of the organization.
Successful Projects Seminar
Important projects warrant this investment in time and effort to review, discuss and resolve any
obstacles to the project as they arise. This seminar is designed to facilitate that process. Managing through
the obstacles and pitfalls requires a level of professionalism based on sound fundamentals to ensure that the
success criteria are being met.
New Auditor Training
To be effective, Auditors must demonstrate a high degree of personal and professional behavior
designed to identify issues, inappropriate behavior and mitigate risks that the organization faces that
might compromise the achievement of strategic objectives, in addition to communicating findings to
Corporate executives and the Audit committee. This survey summary covers the full spectrum of internal audit and
auditor responsibilities.
Consulting and Independent Contractor Services