Gary Bannister

Lewis University Chicago Adjunct professor in the Masters programme for Information security teaching Security Compliance, Governance and risk management.

Responsible for working on various technology, risk, and compliance projects in information security, accounting & SOX assessments and reviews; developing IT Data Retention Policies and IS strategy proposals. Accomplishments  Member of a project team that successfully completed a SOX IT audit for a ‘non-accelerated’ filer. I set up the COBIT 4.1 framework for this assignment.  Developed a software license audit process for a not-for-profit organization

Finance Officer IT North America (3 years) Responsible for an IT budget of $650m, managing the performance reporting and a staff of 15 accountants using SAP. Also responsible for developing an IT billing system to integrate into SAP. Accomplishments Automated the IT billing and management reporting processes, allowing IT North America to reduce costs by $1.5m and billing errors from 40% to 5%.

Site Controller Marl Germany (2 years) Responsible for creating a new control and accounting department at a BP acquisition in Germany (a chemical plant) with a staff of 400 and a capital employed of £190m. This included integrating an acquired SAP system.

European Commercial Controller BP Chemicals, Belgium (4 years) Responsible for financial accounting and performance reporting for all BP Chemical sales and commercial business for 13 European countries. Centralized the accounting systems for all 13 countries to the manufacturing Oracle-based accounting system in 12 months. Created

Responsible for Replacing accountings systems in Europe for a Software development company

Digital security Risk and Compliance

Finance & Systems

Economics