Leonardo Puente is BRS - Financial Services Supervisor at Grant Thornton Argentina. He is a Certified Public Accountant graduated form the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA) in Mérida, Venezuela.
He has knowledge in SAP and data analysis tools (Power BI, Data Studio). He was part of the “Conference for Financial Entities 2021” organized by the Argentinian Internal Audit Institute (IAIA) and from different training courses, such as inflation adjustment, introduction to technical and prudential relations and financial services user protection. Additionally, he was part of the manager training program.
Leonardo has more than 10 years of professional experience. He is an expert in internal auditing in financial and foreign exchange entities. He is part of Grant Thornton Argentina since 2016.
He has been involved in assignments for the execution, documentation and reporting of internal and special audits, the analysis of weaknesses in the compliance with operational processes and the integration and interrelation of the operational and IT teams in the development of audits. He has vast experience in control environment evaluation, identification and classification of risks, and in the analysis of design and effectiveness of controls.
As Supervisor, Leonardo is responsible for the team, monitoring the action plans established by the client and assisting them in their compliance, monitoring the implementation status of the recommendations arising from the audits, and attending to the audits of the Regulatory Entity - Banco Central de la República Argentina (auditor control) and of the external auditors.
His main clients at Grant Thornton Argentina are Banco Masventas, Banco Wilobank and Banco del Sol.
English and Spanish.