Lior Mistriel

Lior leads the IT and Digital Assurance practice in PwC Israel’s Risk Assurance group. Lior works in PwC for more than 14 years, specialized in IT assurance and digital services.

Lior’s experience includes: Data assurance using data and digital audit techniques, process automation, IT and business controls assurance, and SOX implementation (including SOX equivalents such as Israeli SOX) for clients from different industries.

Lior has a vast experience in leading IT assurance services for major European banks, from his long-term secondment in London, UK (2013-2015).

Lior is familiar with complex IT environments, including major ERP systems (SAP, Oracle), cloud-based systems, AWS and Azure environments and on premise infrastructures (Unix, AS400, Windows etc). Lior is also familiar with programming in different languages, including SQL.

As part of the IT audit, Lior has significant experience in IT General Controls (ITGCs) in clients with complex IT environments (such as banks, insurance companies, fin-tech companies, telecommunication companies, major retail companies and more). Lior also has significant experience with Automated Business Controls (ABCs) in business processes, including controls supporting interfaces between systems, matching rules, complex calculations and controls supporting segregation of duties.

Lior was a lecturer in Tel Aviv University, teaching “Introduction to IT Systems” in the Faculty of Management. Prior to that, Lior was a teacher assistant, teaching Mathematics and Statistics for several years.

Lior also performed two short-term secondments in 2007-2008, in PwC Italy and PwC Belgium, where he worked with the local Risk Assurance groups in Milan and in Brussels, respectively.

Lior studied MBA in Strategy and Marketing, and B.Sc. in Computer Sciences and Accounting in Tel Aviv University, and graduated with honours.