Monica Barzaghi

Associate Partner

Monica Barzaghi is Associate Partner at RSM Società de Revisione e Organizzazione Contabile S.p.A.

Monica is a chartered accountant and auditor with many years’ experience in prominent auditing and accounting organisation companies, developing specific skills in the banking and finance sector serving prestigious banking and financial companies, including those belonging to listed groups.

She has participated in ASSIREVI round tables, contributing by preparing research documents to draft specific review principles in the banking and financial sector.

She is Responsible for the Quality Department at RSM S.p.A. and is a member of the Professional Practice Group (national technical committee) of RSM S.p.A.

Career

• Associate Partner at RSM Società di Revisione e Organizzazione Contabile S.p.A.
• Responsible for the Quality Department at RSM S.p.A.
• Member of the Professional Practice Group (national technical committee) of RSM S.p.A.
• Standing auditor in Banca SGSS S.p.A. (Societè Generale group)
• Member of the Corporate Reporting Forum at ASSIREVI - a body responsible for drafting technical documents with reference to extra-financial, ESG, Sustainability, Integrated Reporting and DNF issues
• Responsible for auditing the accounts of financial companies
• Responsible for internally auditing financial companies

Expertise

• External auditing on financial statements and consolidated financial statements. Accounting assistance and guidance for prominent companies in the Banking and Finance Sector
• Study and assessment of the internal control system and support activities for internal audits
• Business consulting projects (formation of management companies, SICAF, unified register, securitisations, pool audits and specific report material)
• Extraordinary transactions and M&A (due diligence, mergers, sale of company branches) and setting up specific report material (information memorandum, teasers, business plans) to be presented to company management and/or institutional investors
• Drafting procedural manuals (operative and accounting) followed by company reorganisation projects
• Auditing on reporting packages and/or their specific accounting entries (Agreed Upon Procedures)
• Transition to international financial reporting standards (IFRS)

Sectors

• Banking
• Finance
• Non-financial information