Robert S. Westbrook

Robert joined the Advisory practice of KPMG in 2001. Prior to joining KPMG, Robert held separate positions as a Research Analyst and later as a Business Analyst at Razorfish, Inc., a consulting firm. In the former role, Robert co-authored the firm’s European research standards manual and in the latter role he was involved as an assistant project manager for the requirements management, design and development, and quality assurance processes of large IT projects.

Professional and industry experience

Robert has performed varying responsibilities on projects assessing regulatory compliance, conducting risk assessments for large organizational change initiatives, auditing internal control environments, and in facilitating the development and execution of IT governance and performance improvement initiatives within client information systems departments. His experience includes projects with the public sector and non-profit organizations, as well as an industry focus on financial services, industrial products and technology and business services.

Project experience includes:

• Internal audit co-sourcing, including the performance of risk assessments and development of internal audit plans; internal controls documentation and testing; planning and execution of operational, IT and regulatory compliance audits.
• IT external audit support
• IT risk management program design
• IT systems implementation reviews
• IT due diligence in support of M&A transactions
• Data governance program design and data quality testing