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Date:
Wednesday December 11, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm US/Eastern
Location:
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Agenda:

Topic: Do you have the right auditors?

Speaker: Hitesh Shah, Business Development Director, BDO USA, LLP

Presentation:

- Why do you need an audit firm – there are many reasons a company why a company needs an audit firm and it is important to know why.

- What do you want from your audit firm?

- Are you being “Rewarded” by your audit firm – Recruit, Retain and Reward

- Does your audit firm have the right industry expertise?

- Does your audit firm provide relevant thought leadership?

- Does the audit firm have an SEC practice, a National Office, IPO qualifications, etc.,

- Does your audit firm have a full service, global practice?

- Can your audit firm customize their audit solution base on your company’s business and size?

- How does the firm add value beyond the audit itself?

- Does the audit firm have a specific plan or approach to employee growth?

- Do they maintain staff/team continuity on the audit engagement?

- Who do you know at your audit firm?

- How often do you meet with your audit team and when?

- How current is the audit firm with their use of technology and tools in executing the audit?

- Does your audit firm engage the audit in a collaborative manner? 

Speaker’s bio: 
Hitesh Shah has more than 30 years of experience spanning startup through venture financing and eventual M&A exits in multiple high technology companies. He has in-depth experience in people management, finance, venture capital, business development, product management, business planning and customer service. Hitesh has raised over $100M in venture capital for four different startups. 

Prior to joining BDO, Hitesh has served in multiple executive roles as CFO, COO, and CEO. He was the Chief Operating Officer at Solum an Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Google Ventures funded company which was acquired by Monsanto. Hitesh also served as CEO and COO at Fat Spaniel Technologies acquired by Power-One and CFO at iPolicy Networks which was acquired by Tech Mahindra in India. 

Hitesh serves on the Executive Leadership Council of Parents Helping Parents (PHP), an organization whose mission is to empower families to build bright futures for children with special needs. He also serves as a board director of Human Needs Project (HNP), an organization focused on alleviating poverty.
 
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
- Board Member, Human Needs Project 
- Board Member, Parents Helping Parents 
- Board Member, Conscious Capitalism, Inc. 

EDUCATION: 
- M.B.A, University of California, Berkeley – Walter A. Haas School of Business 
- B.Sc. (Engineering), Western Michigan University

 

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Chapter Description

Welcome to the group!

We hope this group will prove to be extremely active and aggressive in networking and provide high quality job leads all over the world. The responses we've had thus far, from all over the globe, are a good indicator of the value you are already placing on this new and developing SIG. It is your group and we hope that besides the traditional strength of FENG networking, this group, in particular, will prove itself as an invaluable resource to us all; wherever we may find ourselves. Certainly, the composite experiences, globally speaking, are beyond just impressive!

This group is not just focusing exclusively on overseas positions, both contractual and permanent, but also on any US domestic positions that are international in scope. Obviously, there potentially exists an overlap here with the normal posting to the national FENG group but the probable worst-case scenario is that you get notified twice!

Like any evolving group, there needs to be some form of structure put in place so that, for us all, it is seen as seamlessly working and adding value over and above all those other networks and groups already established and functioning. Just being a FENG group per se is not good enough!

JOB LEADS:

The suggestions we are putting forward are not intended to be viewed as dictatorial or burdening, but rather to make the process work better for us all. Certainly, we are in the draft stages and open to either outright rejection of an idea or welcome modifications.

We would like to ask that before you submit any international job lead(s), you complete the following:
1. Job Title:
2. Location/Country
3. Salary
4. Languages required (if any)
5. Any mandatory prior experience (a few words)
6. Length of assignment (contractual only)
7. Contact Person, email address / telephone#

Naturally, not all this information is available for every job lead, but the thinking is that as we grow the number of leads hopefully will increase significantly and this process will help us all rapidly identify potential matches without needing to read unnecessary and often long job descriptions. How many of you have read long international job descriptions/details, only to find somewhere in the last paragraph that you need fluency in Russian etc.? This process attempts to expedite the identification of critical requirements immediately. Commonsense, of course, dictates that where only scant information is available then just submit as is!! We hope you have enjoyed seeing those leads we've already forwarded to you, though the procedures need a little smoothing still.

OUR VOLUNTEERS AND LOCAL MEETINGS/NETWORKING:

Local area coordinators:
We hope that local groups can be established with at least monthly meetings of the International SIG members being part of the local FENG network group meetings.

SOURCES OF LEADS:

We're hoping that all members will share any good internet sites and/or recruiters that focus on international assignments. We need you to encourage your contacts (and internal Corporate resources) to use this group to get overseas candidates for either contractual or permanent opportunities, much the way that FENG national works today, only difference being the focus.

Unfortunately, the economy has also taken a toll on what previously were excellent international job sites, so don't become frustrated with apparently dead-end web-links. Also, some sites (www.overseasjobs.com) may occasionally post an unbelievably great job in finance but most of the time you'll see nothing or jobs in catering etc, like fishing I guess, you have to keep trying and monitoring the site regularly!

FINALLY:

If you come across any information that could be helpful to international folks then please pass that along as well.

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