Audit & Risk GmbH
Schürbachstrasse 10a
CH-8134 Adliswil (ZH)
Tel. +41 79 311 09 37
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Audit and Risk Management Angelica Bienz
- Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
- Certified European Financial Analyst (CEFA)
- Seminar speaker on audit and risk management
- Active Member of Swiss Institute of Internal Auditing
Facilitating and leading the professional exchange group of CIAs since 2001
- General Manager of Audit & Risk GmbH
Track record and professional career:
- Audit
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Competence in auditing:
Head of Group Internal Audit of the Liechtensteinische Landesbank Group:
Responsible for managing and implementing the group-wide audit function, integrating audit teams at group companies, developing group-wide audit planning and risk assessment processes.
Achievements include:
- Review and fundamental redesign of the audit charter for the entire group
- Enhancing audit reporting and audit tracking processes
- Structuring interaction and collaboration with external auditors on a group-wide basis
- Recruiting and developing auditors
- Coaching and supervising the work of senior business and IT auditors’s at
- Banks
- Asset and Wealth Management Companies
- Trust and Fund Administration Companies
- Special focus topics covered included: US tax compliance, retrocession payments, asset portfolio management, IT and data security, structured financial products, money-laundering, IT development and testing procedures.
- Acting as the investigating officer according Art. 35 of the ordinance “Due Diligence on Combating Money Laudering, Organzied Crime and Terrorist Financing”
Senior Audit Manager with UBS AG, Group Internal Audit, Wealth Management & Business Banking:
Specialist in non-standard audits in the areas of credit risk management and IT business applications.
Achievements include:
- Basel II audits
- Project audits and emergency plans
- Internal control systems audit (SoX)
- Integrated risk information systems
- IT application for administering and allocation of collaterals
- Interest rate risk management and control including asset and liability management
- Risk Transfer - Securitisation
- Large and structured credit transactions
- Asset management consulting
- Governance process on special purpose vehicles
- Developing new engagement work programmes and audit processes such as „agreed-upon-procedures”.
Manager with Swiss Re:
Conceptualy designing, developing and implementing the function of technical underwriting audits and peer reviews. Leading technical underwriting mandates in the field of liability insurance.
- Risk management
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Competence in risk management:
Organisation and Operation:
- Consulting on implementation of risk assessment processes according FINMA-RS 2008/24 "Supervision and Internal Control within the Banking Sector" - Liechtensteinische Landesbank (Schweiz) AG
- Advising on the organisational concept of risk management processes for the Financial Services Business Group - Swiss Re
- Assessing risk management organisations in the course of audit engagements - UBS and Liechtensteinische Landesbank
Operational Risk Management:
- Setting up operational risk management processes - Swiss Re
- Establishing the operational risk management concept for identifying and managing operational risks - Swiss Re
- Designing a group-wide databank concept for data collection on operational losses and risk exposures - Swiss Re
- Organising the first group-wide conference on operational risk - Swiss Re
Financial Market and Credit Risk Management:
- Establishing and enhancing monitoring systems for financial risks - Swiss Re
- Identifying and integrating financial market risks from new business lines within group-wide reporting and monitoring systems – Swiss Re
- Analysing the risk landscape in complex reinsurance transaction as well as in general business to enable general management decision making - Swiss Re
Liability Risk Management:
- Establishing, implementing and provision of training courses for the group-wide monitoring system for underwriting limits and accumulation of liability risks – Swiss Re
- Setting-up group-wide underwriting guidelines – Swiss Re
- Establishing and managing the Knowledge Network “Healthcare Liability Insurance”, advising insurance companies on risk management and quality issues for reducing losses in hospitals
- Analysis of risk and risk factors and assessing their impact on new insurance products
- Analysing insurance portfolios for accumulative risk exposures, e.g. pharma risks - Swiss Re
- Providing advisory services for determining adequate levels of risk adjusted capital for the liability insurance business – Swiss Re
- Risk underwriting and rating of industrial and general liability (including professional, directors and officers liability) of the Swiss, Scandinavian and Anglosaxon markets – Swiss Re
- Seminars and training
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Competence in seminars and training:
- Speaker at the seminar "Current Trends in Internal Auditing" of the Swiss Institute of Certified Accountants and Tax Consultants on the audit charter
- Speaker at the IACON Conference 2009 for auditors and risk managers on the challenges in risk identification, risk assessment and risk communication in auditing
- Inhouse Seminar on reporting on audit engagements with the Audit Services Department of the Canton Zurich
- Moderation of a workshop at the SVIR Conference 2004 about the challenges in implementing the IIA Standards into daily work, especially concerning quality assurance and consulting activities of internal audit
- Risk Management for hospitals (Euroforum Conference in Cologne, 1999)
- Lecturer for seminars of Group Technical Training of Swiss Re between 1996-2000 (International Liabilty Programmes, Professional Indemnity, Punitive Damages etc.)
- Supporting the board of directors
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Competence in supporting the Board of Directors:
- Responsible for the minutes of the monthly meeting of the board of directors as well as for the meetings of the Audit & Risk Committee – Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG
- Preparing, coordinating and setting the agenda of the meetings of the Audit & Risk Committee - Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG
- Advising on risk management and governance matters - Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG
- Professional positions
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Professional positions:
- 2007 – 2009: Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG, Head of Group Internal Audit
- 2001 – 2007: UBS AG, Group Internal Audit, Senior Audit Manager
- 1995 – 2001: Swiss Re AG, various management positions in risk and product management
- 1986 – 1995: Swiss Re AG, Senior Facultative and Treaty Casualty Risk Underwriter
for Scandinavian, Anglosaxon and Swiss markets
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