Cristian Bertone is BRS – Financial Services Partner at Grant Thornton Argentina. He is a Certified Public Accountant graduated from the Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) and has taken different training courses on the Basel Accord, Risk Management, Measurement of Economic capitals, prevention of money laundering and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
He has taught training courses of risk management, loans, technical relations and ACL use.
Cristian has more than 20 years of professional experience in the banking industry, both national and international. He is the partner in charge of the firm’s IT Advisory practice.
He has vast experience leading the advisory teams and in the advice for the implementation of Basel II, risk advisory, prevention of money laundering, process review, continuous audit and specific requirements.
Cristian has been involved in assignments for the development of operational and IT audits making process review, prudential relations, loans, bond, accountancy, debt exchange, foreign trade, purchasing, results and collection for local and international clients, like Citibank Argentina, Bank of America, Banco Itaú, Banco de San Juan, Banco Municipal de Rosario, Banco de Chubut and Banco de la Provincia de Tierra del Fuego.
He helped in the implementation of improvements in the accounting system of Bank of America and took part in the risk and process analysis, the development and coordination of tests in compliance of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Cristian audited Bank Itaú based on COBIT standards.
Cristian collaborated in the implementation of management tools for financial entities and in the development of presentation for international advisories applying cycle approach (COSO reports).
Between 2010 and 2012 he participated as an Implementation Expert in an international project financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for the development and implementation of administrative, technological and risk tools for financial cooperatives in Honduras. He has also been part in some specific projects such as:
Some of his most relevant clients are Banco Sáenz, Banco de Santiago del Estero, Nuevo Banco de La Rioja, Banco de la Provincia del Neuquén, Banco Industrial, Banco Interfinanzas and Fiat Crédito Compañía Financiera.
English and Spanish.
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