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NEW EXECUTIVE
APPOINTMENT AT THE
OCM GROUP
Mrs. Miriam
Wilson-Edwards
GROUP INTERNAL AUDITOR – OCM GROUP
wherein she conducted audit reviews in Banking
and Financial Services, Medical Services and at the
conglomerate’s Insurance Group in the Bahamas,
Barbados, Cayman Islands, Guyana and Suriname.
On 1st May 2019 Mrs. Miriam
Wilson-Edwards was appointed
to the position of Group Internal
Auditor at One Caribbean Media
Limited (OCM).
Mrs. Wilson-Edwards has over twenty-three (23) years’ work
experience of which eighteen (18) years relate to financial and
operational audits; management and compliance reviews;
consultancy engagements and fraud investigations. She spent
over twelve (12) years managing the Internal Audit Department
of a Property Development company with core business services
in Procurement and Contract Management, Commercial Services,
Real Estate, Property Development and Facilities Management.
Prior to that position, she worked for over ten (10) years at a
conglomerate with over eighty (80) subsidiaries in various sectors
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Miriam holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (Hons)
in Economics (Major)/Finance (Minor) from UWI,
St. Augustine. She is a Fellow of the Association
of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) United Kingdom
(UK), a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA); an Associate Member
of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), holds
Certification in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA) and attained
a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in Leadership,
Entrepreneurship and Innovation with Distinction from the
Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
She is a Certified Volunteer Instructor for the Institute of Internal
Auditors (IIA) Inc. and has facilitated seminars in various states in
North America (California, Florida, Massachusetts and Georgia);
and locally in Trinidad and Tobago. Miriam previously served as
the Senior Vice-President on the IIA Trinidad and Tobago (IIA-TT)
Chapter’s Executive Team and currently serves as a Governor on
the IIA-TT Board – a position she has been elected to serve in for
over seven (7) years, with two (2) of these years as Chairman of the
Board of Governors.