Robert Slay

Internal Auditing

2020 - Current

Senior Internal Auditor

2015 - 2020

• Led & participated in audit planning, testing & reporting of departmental controls and processes to mitigate potential risks to the company. • Conducted risk assessments, auditee interviews and audit walkthroughs to obtain an in depth understanding of audited areas. • Prepared final audit and readiness assessment reports to communicated findings and recommendations to management. • Entrusted to participate in on-site international audits in 10+ countries with audit colleagues globally to identify operational and reputational risks and efficiencies and to execute audit procedures to provide corrective actions/recommendations to remediate findings. • Appointed as Global Investigation Coordinator (GIC) to monitored progress/participate in investigations to providing regular updates to Executive Leadership team. • Implemented new on-boarding processes for new colleagues globally and co-led the creation of our annual New Joiners’ Conference. • Directed the Finance Uniters initiative to plan and coordinate events for entire finance organization to improve personal and professional connections.

Financial Leadership Program Associate (2nd Rotation - Internal Audit - Internal Audit Associate)

2014 - 2020

• Participated in audit planning, & testing of departmental controls and processes to mitigate potential risks. • Performed corporate investigations and SOx 404 compliance testing. • Utilized audit software such as Galileo to house data analytics and completed audit workpapers. • Created numerous workflow charts to visualize processes, controls and risks and how they operated together.

Financial Leadership Program Associate (1st Rotation - Shared Service Finance - Accounting Associate

2014 - 2014

• Prepared and posted various journal entries to the general ledger during month end close. • Completed account reconciliations and provided support for each balance for various asset and liability accounts. • Utilized data systems such as Cognos Reporting, HFM, and PeopleSoft to tie out financial data across business units. • Assisted in the preparation of month end schedules and the examination of variances for the corporate consolidations group. • Created and delivered webinar training presentations to the Mexico Finance Center staff on account reconciliations and reoccurring monthly journal entries.

Corporate Tax Intern

2012 - 2014

• Prepare local, state, and federal tax returns for Tribune Company entities. • Create statements for tax return support such as calculations for Net Operating Losses, interest on tax liabilities and quarterly extension and estimate payments. • Utilize tax software such as Corptax and E-Forms to gather reports, file returns and extensions. • Assists with daily administrative duties as well. • Analyze M adjustments to conclude if they need re-classing entries to adjust amount to end of year balances.

Finance Intern (Commerical Planning & Forecasting)

2012 - 2012

• Analyzed various line items (COGS, Freight Expense, NPR, Marketing Expenditures) on the commercial P&L to see how these items affected the net income of Millercoors major brands. • Used EDW Warehouse software to query sales & financial data of our most popular beverage in a effort to analyze trends and understand the reasoning behind various changes in revenue streams. • Utilized Nielsen software to analyze market/case share of MillerCoors portfolio against our top competitor by looking at Portfolio Allocation (Above Premium, Premium, and Below Premium Brands). • Acted as one of the Social/Sports Event Committee team leaders to plan more than 6 large social events for a intern class of 20+. • Attended numerous company wide financial events such as the annual MillerCoors Finance Townhall and quarterly earnings seminars.

Audit/Assurance Intern (Real Estate)

2012 - 2012

• Participated in various parts of audits such as interest reasonableness, A/P & A/R. • Created audit files in CaseWare system and rolled over audit data to the next year. • Drafted preliminary financial statements for audit clients. • Attended numerous audit planning meetings with team. • Interned through the busy audit season 65+ hour weeks between January - March.

Finance Extern

2011 - 2011

• Invited to participate in three day event to shadow finance managers and directors. • Assist current MillerCoors interns with finance projects, and interact with high level executives. • Participated in a Group Financial Analysis Project of Product Innovation

Finance Intern

2010 - 2010

• Assisted the Vice President of Financial Operations with monthly and quarterly financial reports. • Collaborated with the financial team to analyze the yearly financial figures to project future decisions of the company. • Created weekly sales reports for the various business units of the company using EDW Software and Microsoft Excel.

Information Technology Intern

2008 - 2008

Collaborated with members of the IT team to understand how the IT Infrastructure works. Also contributed ideas to the supply and demand team to provide ways to reduce costs for the company.

Corporate Services Intern

2007 - 2007

Assisted the department supervisor in various projects such as recording recurring expenses for the department and logging these expenses into the database.