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Rowena Seguin Geronimo obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in 1999. She is a Certified Public Accountant who has more than nine years of solid experience in a public auditing firm with client responsibilities and proven expertise on the financial audit and operations review of local and multi-national companies. In 2000, she joined Sycip, Gorres Velayo and Company (Ernst and Young Philippines) as an associate auditor where she was exposed to various industries including manufacturing and service industries. She was promoted later on to senior associate position.
As a senior associate, her responsibilities lie mainly on the supervision of the engagement as well as preparation of reports, management letters and tax returns. She participated in the financial audit, internal control evaluation and review and other related professional services for various companies engaged in various fields. In 2005, she came to Indonesia to join Moores Rowland Indonesia as a manager. This Company merged with Mazars in January 2009. During her three years in the Company, she was able to gain expertise on Indonesian GAAP as well as the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and other GAAP from other countries. She was also exposed to specialized industries such as mining, coal, oil and gas and telecommunication industries.
As an engagement manager of Moores Rowland Indonesia, Rowena is responsible for ensuring the quality delivery of client services by directing daily progress of fieldwork, informing partners of engagement status, review of own work and work of others to ensure that work is complete, technically accurate, properly performed, and adequately documented with exceptions and differences appropriately addressed and compliance with firm documentation. Also she is in charge of developing and maintaining productive working relationships with client key personnel at appropriate levels and is committed to continually improve client satisfaction. She constantly respects and protects confidential client information.
She is heavily involved in the planning of the engagement, identification of business and financial statement risks and determination the nature, timing and extent of tests to be performed. Also, she reviews the significant issue identified, inform the client and partner regarding the audit issues in a timely manner and develop solutions to the issues identified for approval by clients and partner.
Rowena ensures that all applicable firm policies and procedures are duly enforced and complied with. She makes sure that the staffs adhere with the profession’s code of conduct as well as with the firm’s General Professional Code of Conduct. She also participates actively in firm-wide activities geared towards quality and risk management (e.g. QC work, ISO activities, facilities management, etc.) and other administrative matters.