Hakim Mezieche

Experience

Before joining Grant Thornton in 2027, Hakim gained an extensive experience in IT risk management, IT audit and internal controls as well as in IT governance processes.

Hakim worked during 10 years for multiple international companies across the world. He started his career as an internal controller working for a supply-chain company in France and the Netherlands. Hakim was involved in the implementation of an ERP system.

He developed his expertise working for PWC and BDO in Montreal, Canada for 6 years. He was mainly in charge to review IT general computer controls within the context of external and internal audits. He further was involved in the review of security governance and vulnerability management using COBIT. He covered following topics physical security, user access, settings, data ownership, network management, review of controls and security parameters over operating systems, databases, and applications. Hakim was also in charge of IT risk assessments and follow up of IT risk remediation activities for a number of Canadian banks. He also performed testing of completeness and data integrity transmission between several systems.

Hakim worked for National Bank of Canada as an IT Internal Auditor. He helped the organisation to define, implement IT Controls and update IT processes accordingly. 

Hakim had the opportunity to be involved in various IT topical areas: infrastructure (review of replication mechanisms from site to site, evaluation of high-availability and disaster recovery project deployment solutions), cyber-security (governance of security (security incident, awareness), assessment of SIEM deployment project, access management review, review of security parameters (Unix, AS400, Mainframe), security compliance) and third-party management (review of contractual service agreement, governance of third-party management, SOC reports documentation).