Laura Zepeda

Education Bachelor Degree
CPA, Accounting, administration and Auditing
1993-1997 Universidad Autónoma Nuevo León, FACPYA

Master Degree
Accounting, administration
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Facultad de Contaduría Publica y
Administración, Mty, N.L.
8 subjects

Foreign Languages
English
January 2000 to August 2001
South Bay School, Los Angeles, C.A.
English as a Second Language

6 levels (2 years) 90%
1993 to 1996
Faculta de Idiomas, UANL (7 sem.)
English bachelor degree
Speak, read, and write 90%

French TODAY
French Basic
Whirlpool Mexico

Experience and Skills
April 2007 to prensent
Kansas City Southern de Mexico
Internal Audit Senior
Coordinate the Sarbanes Oxley auditory, setting the controls to mitigate risks, development of Policies and Procedures to be aligned to Kansas City Southern, assist business leaders with the maintenance of strong internal controls and related documentation, design and execution of internal control validation techniques, data controller, assist external auditors with internal control attestation procedure.

June 2004 to March 2007
Whirlpool Mexico
ICG Coordinator
Coordinate the Sarbanes Oxley auditory, setting the controls to mitigate risks, development of Policies and Procedures to be aligned to Whirlpool Corporation, assist business leaders with the maintenance of strong internal controls and related documentation, design and execution of internal control validation techniques, Risk Navigator data controller, assist external auditors with internal control attestation procedure.


January of 2002 to June 2004
Dispatch Landeros y Asociados, SC
Accountant Supervising
Experience in general accounting, production of financial statements and accounting, also prepare and pay Mexican taxes as VAT, IRS, IA, IMSS, Payroll, etc, checking the fixed assets and its depreciation, clients, banks, flow cash, accounts payables and charging, attending the internal control of the companies.

January 2000 to December 2001
Big Lots L.L.P.
Customer Service Manager
Control the inventory; handle the personnel to assign them to the different activities of the store.

June 1997 to December 1999
PriceWaterhouse Coopers, S.C.
Taxes Supervising Auditor
Auditing the tax area of companies, as well making the tax statement for the external opinion, and generate all the federal taxes statements, also prepare the different taxes that the companies bound to declare, update of taxes and review of calculation of different taxes (IRS, VAT, IA, IMSS, ISPT, Etc)., checking the fixed assets and their depreciation. Some of the companies are PULSAR Group, GRUMA, HYLSA, Fruit of the Loom group, Alestra, etc.

June 1996 to June 1997
F.C. Mercadeo, S.A. de C.V.
General Accounting
Experience in general accounting, preparation of Financial statements and accounting, also prepare and pay of Mexican taxes as VAT, IRS, IA, IMSS, Payroll, etc, checking the fixed assets and their depreciation, clients, banks, Flow cash, accounts payables and charging, internal control of the companies.







Other skills and seminaries
IIA Institute of Internal Audit
MAPING COSO, Applying COSO’s Enterprise
Risk Management — Integrated Framework

Prodiance and Jefferson Wells
Spreadsheet Remediation & Controls for
SOX 404 Compliance

Systems
FIME UANL Analyst Programmer
UANL FACPYA Windows, office (word, work, excel, p point etc) Internet, etc.

Price Waterhouse Coopers
Different curses of taxes, Auditing and Computing.

Asociación de ExAlumnos Facpya
Curses of auditing, taxes Imss etc.

Institute of Internal Audit active member.