Virginia Fernández is Director of Internal Audit at PRISA.
A graduate in Economics and Business Administration, she began her professional career at Arthur Andersen (now Deloitte) in 1995 in the Audit and Business Consulting division. In 2000 she was appointed Manager of the Transport, Products, Distribution and Services sector, becoming Senior Manager of the same division in 2006. During this period, she led not only financial audit engagements but also consultancy and business advisory projects, including company valuations, strategic planning and process design.
Since May 2007, she has led and managed the Internal Audit function of PRISA Group at national and international level, reporting to the Group’s Audit Committee. In this role she has led, among other projects, the definition and implementation of the Group’s internal financial control framework (SOX and SCIIF) and the criminal compliance model. Until 2021 she was a member of the corporate compliance unit, and since September 2021 she has served on the Sustainability Executive Committee. In 2023 she completed the Directors’ Program at ESADE.