After completing his MBA in 1999, Martin Jaros moved to Zurich, Switzerland, to take on a new challenge, his role was IT Auditor with Philip Morris (now Altria Group), responsible for reviewing the European operations of Kraft Jacobs Suchard (later Kraft Foods and now Mondelez).
After half a year in Switzerland, the company decided to move the European headquarters of Kraft to Cheltenham, London. Martin Jaros relocated with the European management team to London, and continued to travel around the European operations of Kraft Foods. Martin spent 3 years auditing performing both financial and IT audits, covering all process areas in the companies owned by Kraft, including logistics, sales & marketing, production, contracting and procurement and general administration (legal, finance, IT, HR, etc.). Martin was also involved in an in-depth JV audit of Osella (cheese factory in Italy) which had been acquired by Kraft.
In March 2001, Martin Jaros successfully completed, his exam to qualify in the elite group of ISACA certified IT Auditors. During his work with Kraft Foods, his key accomplishments were designing a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Audit Guide, based on his experiences with the Y2K reviews (it was thought that the year 2000 would crash computers around the world).
Martin worked closely with senior management in all subsidiaries to prepare well qualified, and beneficial audit reports. His work took him for 4-5 weeks at a time to almost all European countries, and allowed him to work with numerous major ERP systems (SAP, MFG/PRO, SUN, JD Edwards)
Martin spent his final 6 months as Lead Auditor on the largest SAP implementation in the world. (at that time). It was a pan-European SAP implementation for Kraft Foods costing in excess of $160m, where he worked closely with the programme office and identified numerous areas of improvement for controls and also project management which were well accepted and implemented. (Since then, Shell’s SAP implementation where Martin was involved has surpassed the Kraft SAP implementation 10-fold).
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