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Ready, Set, Grow: Building a Future-Ready Workforce

Description

As audit departments face rapidly evolving risks, such as cybersecurity threats, tax complexities, and new regulations, it’s crucial to develop a future-ready workforce. This session will focus on how to assess the current skill set of your team, identify gaps, and develop a strategy for upskilling to meet emerging challenges. Learn how to cascade critical knowledge from specialized areas, like cyber and tax, to ensure your entire team is equipped to handle diverse audit needs. Discover how to create a comprehensive succession plan that builds leadership pipelines, develops managers to push beyond their comfort zones, and prepares your team to take on more strategic roles. Attendees will explore ways to push individuals outside their comfort zones, develop resilience, and create a culture of continuous learning that drives audit innovation and readiness.

About the speakers

Andy Deas is a Managing Director in Deloitte’s Risk & Financial Advisory practice specializing in internal audit outsourcing and information technology risk management. He has over 20 years of experience in application development methodologies, data security and controls, internal controls compliance, risk assessment, data analysis, controls rationalization and IT operations. Andy currently serves as a senior leader for an outsourced internal audit and risk management function for a Fortune 500 company. He is responsible for the global SOX program and technology components of the internal audit function.

Jimena Escamilla is an Internal Audit Senior Manager and Agile Coach in Deloitte’s Internal Audit (IA) practice, bringing over 12 years of experience to the role. Her audit expertise spans across IT and business domains, with a strong track record in operational and IT audits, SOX compliance, IPO readiness, and agile transformation projects. She is known for fostering high-performing teams, leading transformative projects for SOX functions, and working with chief audit executives of Fortune 500 companies, including three of the Fortune 10.

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