Project 16
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Project Name Seized Property Management Directorate (SPMD) |
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Client Public Works and Government Services Canada , Office of Audit and Evaluation (OAE) |
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Duration December 2009 to February 2010 [3 months] |
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Project Description |
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SPMD is managing assets seized or restrained under Canada’s Proceeds of Crime legislation. The objectives of the Seized Property Management Program are to provide consultative services to law enforcement agencies in relation to assets seized or restrained; to safeguard the assets; to dispose of them when the Courts declare forfeiture; and to share the proceeds of the disposition. Based on Treasury Board’s core management control, the audit objectives are focusing on the governance structure, the operational capacity, SPMD’s policies, procedures and controls to safeguard the seized or restrained assets including adequacy of the risk management framework and reporting mechanisms to assist senior management in the decision-making process. |
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Scope and objective |
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The goal of this audit was to provide reasonable assurance that SPMD’s business processes are adequate to manage and protect seized asset under their custody as part of Multi-Year Risk Based Audit Planning. |
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Dollar Value |
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Information available withheld with client |
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Contribution of the proposed resource to the project |
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Lead and managed the audit throughout the key audit process from the conduct stage to the debriefing of the preliminary report to Senior Management. Based on the observations found, developed and updated the strategic plan for the implementation of the conduct phase. Provided and documented a few facilitation sessions to key members of the Office of Audit and Evaluation to review observations/findings and agreed on audit plan adjustment. Developed the audit criteria based on a risk management framework, which lead to the development of a few mitigation strategies to facilitate the delivery of the mandate. In complement to some of the mitigation strategies, delivered a series of informal coaching session to management. Developed and implemented interactive audit tools to sufficiently and adequately support key element of the audit plan as per the IIA Standards which facilitated the application of the audit plan throughout the mandate and adequately support the findings of this audit as per the IIA Standards. Using a risk management framework identified a series of audits criteria to be part of the audit tool that was used to ensure the application of the audit plan throughout the mandate. Propose implementation of corrective action at the data governance and management level to adress the data integrity weaknesses. Prepared and delivered a series of progress report presentations during weekly briefing session to senior management. This mandate is supporting business process transformation and it requires expertise in assessment of organizational role and responsibility. |
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Deliverables |
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Result will be available once the external audit committee has been debriefing and report has been approved for publication release on PWGSC’s web site. |
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References: Linda Anglin Chief Audit Executive (819) 956-2971
Marc Simard Acting Director (819) 956-2973 |
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Technological platform leverage during this mandate |
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