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Iacop Plenary Agenda 2021 Fnl.Pdf SMART INTERACTIVE TALK (SIT) PEMPAL IACOP Plenary Meeting INTERNAL AUDIT IN THE POST PANDEMIC RECOVERY with focus on Advisory Services, Agile Auditing, and Audit Committees May 27 and June 2, 2021, 13:00-16:00 (CET, Vienna time) CONTEXT This plenary meeting, in the format of a SIT, takes place more than a year since the IACOP’s last plenary. The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly challenged all of us and impacted our lives during that time. Nevertheless, with the great effort and flexibility demonstrated by IACOP leadership and its members, IACOP is holding up well in these extraordinary circumstances. It has been able to provide timely and stakeholder-oriented support through the organization of virtual events, joined IACOP- country events, and developed additional knowledge products. We all recognize that strong public services are essential both during the pandemic and in its aftermath. The entire public sector must seek to work effectively and efficiently, despite the pressures and challenges. Public authorities now more than ever must strive to meet their objectives. This requires more modern and efficient tools to be provided to management, to address their increased expectations regarding both internal control and internal audit. Facing many burning challenges, managers seek more advisory internal audit services. Central harmonization units and managers need more assurance on whether internal control operates properly. While maintaining a focus on public internal financial control implementation, the audit committee topic returns to PEMPAL countries’ reform agenda and as well to the IACOP agenda. To better fits clients’ expectations, agile auditing creates opportunities to transform audit processes, to better address the audit environment, and ultimately to create more value for the stakeholders of internal audit services. Based on demand from member countries, the plenary meeting will consider three topics in some depth, with expert speakers, discussion of country experiences, and commentary and advice from PEMPAL IACOP, the World Bank, country senior officials, and external experts. The topics selected are how audit committees can assist in advancing public internal control reforms and support managerial accountability; how agile auditing can transform the internal audit process; and how to ensure consultancy engagements meet the needs of all involved. There will also be updates on public internal financial control reforms and on IACOP’s progress and plans. Participants will have opportunities to share their views and questions, and to reflect on others’ challenges and shared plans. At the end of the event, there will be a virtual social event. ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS • Joining the SIT. The SIT will be hosted on the KUDO platform, which offers simultaneous translation into the PEMPAL languages. Please click on the link in the invitation email and select the preferred language (English, BSC, or Russian). If the quality of your connection is poor the video may be turned off and to use only audio. • Connect at 12:45pm to test your connection. Please see the separate simple guide on connecting to a KUDO meeting. • Download presentations in your preferred language. Presentations on the screen during the SIT will be mainly in English, but all are available in all PEMPAL languages to download from pempal.org. AGENDADAY 1MAY 27, 202113:00-16:00 (VIENNA TIME) Welcome remarks and introduction Presentation of the plenary objectives, agenda, and IACOP governance structure 13:00 Mr. Arman VatyanPEMPAL Program Leader and IACOP Lead, the World Bank Mr. Dan BoycePractice Manager, Governance, the World Bank Ms. Ljerka CrnkovićIACOP ExCom Chair; Senior Adviser, MOF, Croatia IACOP progress Progress made in IACOP Working Groups since the last plenary meeting and the way forward Ms. Tatjana TrajkovskaIACOP CHU Working Group Leader, IACOP ExCom member; Deputy Chief Inspector, MOF, North Macedonia 13:15 Ms. Giuli ChkuaseliIACOP Internal Control Working Group leader, IACOP ExCom member; Head of CHU, MOF, Georgia Mr. Grigor AramyanIACOP Audit in Practice Working Group leader; Chairman of Association of Internal Auditors, Accountants and Supervisors, Armenia Moderator: Ms. Ljerka CrnkovićIACOP ExCom Chair; Senior Advisor, MOF, Croatia The evolving role of audit committees How audit committees can assist in advancing Public Internal Control reforms and support managerial accountability Mr. Jean-Pierre GaritteEC Audit Progress Committee member, Former Chairman of the Global IIA Board Discussants: 13:45 Mr. Besart Kadia Phd Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance, Albania Mr. Manfred KraffDirector General, DG Internal Audit Services, European Commission Mr. Stephan RoudilRapporteur Général of the Central Harmonization Committee for Internal Audit - Ministries of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Public Reform and Simplification, France Mr. Manfred van KesterenAudit Manager, Dutch Central Government Audit Service Ms. Monika KosAdvisor to the Minister of Finance, MOF, Poland Moderator: Mr. Arman VatyanPEMPAL Program Leader and IACOP Lead, the World Bank Agile auditing How agile auditing can help to transform the internal audit process. The role of central harmonization unit and managers perspectives Mr. James PatersonInternal Audit Global Expert Discussants: Mr. Iuri PasinschiSecretary General, MOF, Moldova 14:45 Mr. Dimitar KovachevskiDeputy Minister, MOF, North Macedonia Ms. Zondre SeiteiDirector, PFM Capacity Building, National Treasury, the Republic of South Africa Mr. Darius MatuseviciusHead of Internal Audit and Control Systems – Central Harmonization and Assurance, MOF, Lithuania Moderator: Mr. Richard MaggsWorld Bank Consultant; former Director General of UK National Audit Office Closing remarks for day 1 15:50 Ms. Ljerka CrnkovićIACOP ExCom Chair; Senior Adviser, MOF, Croatia Mr. Arman VatyanPEMPAL Program Leader and IACOP Lead, the World Bank 16:00 End of SIT AGENDA DAY 2 JUNE 2, 2021 13:00-16:00 (VIENNA TIME) Welcome remarks and introduction to plenary day 2 Presentation of the plenary day 2 agenda and feedback on day 1 13:00 Mr. Arman VatyanPEMPAL Program Leader and IACOP Lead, the World Bank Ms. Ljerka CrnkovićIACOP ExCom Chair; Senior Adviser, MOF, Croatia Public Internal Financial Control reforms update Brief feedback from PEMPAL countries and PEMPAL impact survey Ms. Diana Grosu-AxentiPEMPAL IACOP Resource Team member, the World Bank Discussants: 13:10 Mr. Akhadbek KhaydarovDeputy Minister, MOF, Uzbekistan Ms. Hanna KrivchenkovaDeputy Director of PIFC harmonization department, Ukraine Other PEMPAL country representatives Moderator: Ms. Lusine GrigoryanPEMPAL IACOP Resource Team member, the World Bank Consultancy engagements What they mean to managers (they need help), internal auditors (they want to bring value), and the CHU (they need to fix the legal framework, guide, and monitor) Mr. Jean-Pierre GaritteEC Audit Progress Committee member, Former chairman of the global IIA board Discussants: Mr. Hannes SchuhChief Audit Executive, MOF, Austria 14:00 Mr. Darius MatuseviciusHead of Internal Audit and Control Systems – Central Harmonization and Assurance, MOF, Lithuania Ms. Pulane MkidzeActing Chief Director: Internal Audit Support, the Republic of South Africa Ms. Katleen SeeuwsCEO, The IIA, Belgium Ms. Edit NemethFormer IACOP ExCom Chair, former head of CHU, Director of Subsidy Control and Monitoring at Bethlen Gabor Fund Management Zrt., Hungary Moderator: Mr. Arman VatyanPEMPAL Program Leader and IACOP Lead, the World Bank Conclusions and closing of the Plenary Ms. Ljerka CrnkovićIACOP ExCom Chair; Senior Adviser, MOF, Croatia 15:30 Mr. Jean-Pierre GaritteEC Audit Progress Committee member, Former chairman of the global IIA board Mr. Arman VatyanPEMPAL Program Leader and IACOP Lead, the World Bank 16:00 Social event BIOS OF THE SPEAKERS AND MODERATORS (in order of appearance) ARMAN VATYAN PEMPAL Program Leader and IACOP Lead; Lead Financial Management Specialist - Governance Focal Point for Central Asia, The World Bank Arman Vatyan is PEMPAL Program Leader and IACOP Lead and World Bank Governance Global Practice Focal Point overseeing the implementation of the World Bank’s Governance activities in Central Asia including the financial management work program. He has more than 20 years of experience in leading critical financial management initiatives and reforms, including in public sector and corporate accounting and financial reporting, public internal and external audit, financial management information systems and public internal control in 25 countries in the Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, and Middle East and North Africa regions. He is also Program Manager of PULSAR, a regional program for 13 countries supporting public financial management reform. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked at Big 4 providing corporate governance, strategic planning, management information systems, restructuring, acquisition, and privatization advice to governments and large public interest entities. He is a UK and Canadian chartered accountant and has around 20 years of teaching experience on ACCA courses and as visiting lecturer at universities, and as part of regional and MBA programs. DANIEL BOYCE Practice Manager, Governance, The World Bank Daniel Boyce is Practice Manager for Governance in the World Bank’s Governance Global Practice, Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region. He brings extensive knowledge and experience in covering the Latin America and Caribbean, and ECA regions. He is responsible for overseeing quality in
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