Application for Appointment to
BITY CLERK
City Board or Commission
2026 JUL 27 PM 2:40
Please provide the following information and return this application to the Office of the City Clerk by:
• EMAIL to the Office of the City Clerk at [email protected]; • U.S. MAIL to Office of the City Clerk, 613E. Broadway Suite 110, Glendale, CA 91206-4308; or • FAX to (818) 241-5386
Applicant must be a Glendale resident and registered to vote in the city.
Your application details must match your voter registration information.
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Name of Board or Commission:Audit Committee Date:July 22, 2026 Are you currently serving on this Board or Commission and applying for reappointment? • Yes No Personal
Legal Name:Levon Mkrtychev Date of Birth
Home Address Glendale
street address suite /unit# city zip code
Home Phone Number Cell Phone Number:
Email Address
Number of years lived in Glendale:14
Are you a registered voter in the City of Glendale? (required) • Yes • No Have you previously served on a Board or Commission? • Yes • No If Yes, what Commission(s) and years did you serve?
II. Education
College:UC San Diego Degree:BA Economics
College: Claremont Graduate University _Degree:MS Fin Engineering (Quant Finance) III. Business / Professional Experience
Position: Sr. Internal Audit Manager Company Name: American Express Address
city
Telephone Number: Email:[email protected]
Job Description: Sr. Internal Audit Manager - Leading internal audits over front-line Treasury function(s) and second line Risk Management functions, including Liquidity Risk, Interest Rate Risk, etc.
Design Review Board Candidates Only
Are you a registered architect? • Yes • No Registration Number:
K-506 (1/25) (over)
IV. Organizations / Civic Activities
List Affiliations: 1. Alpha Epsilon Omega (AEO) Fraternity - Alumni; formerly UCSD Chapter Treasurer
2. CFA Institute - Passed CFA Level 1 Exam
V. Qualifications / Experience
List relevant experience and skills: 1. 10 years of audit experience across four financial institutions
2. Core Disciplines - Risk assessment, risk-based audit planning, evaluation of governance structures, statistical sampling, etc.
3. MS in Fin Engineering (Quant Finance); BA in Economics
4. Community - Raised in Glendale
VI. Other Information
(A) Attach a current resume.
(B) Include a brief written statement outlining your views on the roles and responsibilities of this Board or Commission, its key issues, and your goals if appointed. (attach an additional sheet if necessary) (C) If applicable, include the commissions) on which you have served previously and include the time frame.
NOTE to City Clerk: Please do not make my (1) date of birth, (2) phone number, and (3) email address publicly available. I work in finance/banking, where personal identifiers and contact details are routinely targeted for phishing, social engineering, and account-takeover attempts. Publishing this information alongside my name and employer would materially increase that exposure without serving any public purpose relevant to this application. My professional qualifications, background, and Glendale residency remain fully disclosed and available for public review. Thank you for accommodating this request.
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K-506 (1/25)
LEVON MKRTYCHEV
July 22, 2026
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
City of Glendale
c/o Office of the City Clerk, 613 E. Broadway, Suite 110 Glendale, CA 91206
Re: Application for Appointment to the Audit Committee - Written Statement of Views, Key Issues, and Goals Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers:
I respectfully submit this statement in support of my application for appointment to the City of Glendale Audit Committee - my views on the Committee's role, the key issues before it, and my goals & approach if appointed.
The Audit Committee exists, as I understand it, to be the Council's and the public's independent set of eyes on the systems behind the city's finances and operations. The Committee does not perform audits; it helps make sure the audit function is aimed at the right risks, adequately supported, and heard clearly by the Council. I have spent my career in the private sector and am new to city operations and governance, so l offer these views with that limitation in mind. Still, based on my understanding, most of what makes a city trustworthy and functional is invisible when it works, and the Committee's job is to help keep that invisible layer honest.
The central challenge for any audit committee, in a city or a bank, is that the list of things worth auditing is always longer than the capacity to audit them. Three disciplines tend to serve that well:
1. Prioritization: An annual work plan that is genuinely risk-based, so limited hours go where failure would cost residents and the city most.
2. Clarity: One of the most useful things the Audit Committee can offer the Council is a simple, current picture of what has been audited or reviewed, what has not, and why.
3. Follow-through: Findings matter only if remediation is tracked to closure, so aging open issues deserve the same attention as new reports.
And quietly, a fourth - continuity: steady, supportive oversight is part of what keeps an audit function professional and durable through transitions in staff and leadership.
My background fits this work, and its breadth is the relevant part. Today my coverage is specialized - treasury risk (liquidity, interest rate risk, regulatory reporting, etc.). But I spent years before that auditing across an entire institution, including enterprise risk management, operational risk, governance, and human resources. A city's risk universe, as | currently understand it, looks far more like the second than the first. Having worked both ends of that spectrum, I hope that my perspective can be useful on the Committee.
If appointed, my approach would be modest and practical. Glendale already has an established Audit Committee and professional internal audit staff, and a new member's first responsibility is to support that work - to listen, learn the city's context, and come prepared. I will not arrive knowing everything about city government, and I will not pretend to; what I can promise is that I learn quickly and do the reading. Where it is useful, I would hope to contribute disciplined risk assessment and audit methodology, ask constructive questions about the work plan, coverage, and open findings, and help translate technical audit language into what the Council and residents need to know - because oversight that cannot be understood is not really oversight. Above all, I would want to be a steady, collegial member: supportive of the Committee, of the Council, and of the broader work of city government.
My reasons for applying are personal more so than professional. I grew up in Glendale - Mark Keppel Elementary, Toll Middle School, Clark Magnet High School - and went from Glendale's public schools to a public university (UC San Diego). I live in Glendale today. I love this city, I want to see it succeed, and at this point in my life I want to do my part. I hold one unglamorous conviction, from work and from life: institutions last when people maintain what already exists and works well. Serving on the Audit Committee would be a chance to offer the city that raised me that kind of quiet, careful support - and I would be glad to do the work.
I am open and available to any questions you may have for me. Thank you for your consideration.
Respectfully submitted,
Levon Mkrtychev
LEVON MKRTYCHEV
Internal Audit - Treasury & Liquidity Risk • Enterprise Risk Management • Governance
CONTACT PROFILE
Glendale, CA Ten years of internal audit across American Express, City National Bank, and Barclays - specialized today in treasury risk, with earlier enterprise-wide coverage spanning enterprise risk management, operational risk, governance, and human resources.
Interested in bringing professional audit oversight experience to the City of Glendale
FOCUS AREAS
Audit Committee.
Treasury & liquidity risk
EXPERIENCE
Interest rate risk
Enterprise & operational risk American Express | New York, NY (Remote) May 2024 - Present
Governance & internal controls
Sr. Internal Audit Manager - Treasury Risk
Regulatory reporting
• Deliver third-line audit coverage of treasury risk - liquidity risk (LCR/NSFR Risk-based planning & statistical
production, FR 2052a regulatory reporting) and interest rate risk sampling
• Own audits end to end: risk-based scoping, process walkthroughs, control design CREDENTIALS and operating-effectiveness testing, and reporting to senior management • Evaluate management's risk frameworks and second-line oversight; track CFA Level I - passed
remediation of findings to closure
City National Bank | Los Angeles, CA Apr 2018 - May 2024 Internal Audit Manager II (2021 - 2024)
Senior Internal Auditor (2018-2021)
• Directed audits across a broad risk universe - enterprise risk management, operational risk, governance, human resources, and treasury-related areas • Managed engagements from planning through reporting; supervised staff auditors and validated remediation of regulatory and internal audit issues Barclays | New York, NY Jun 2016 - Apr 2018
Internal Audit Analyst - Finance / Treasury Audit
• Audited Treasury and CCAR processes, including regulatory issue validations • Recognized for business understanding and productive stakeholder relationships MUFG | San Francisco, CA Summer 2015
Internal Audit Intern, Model Risk Management
• Supported audit coverage of the model risk management framework - validation, documentation, and governance
CIVIC & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Chapter Treasurer - Alpha Epsilon Omega (AEO) Armenian Fraternity UC San Diego
Volunteer - Covenant House New York
Services for young people experiencing homelessness (New York City) Volunteer - Regional Food Banks
San Diego Food Bank • Los Angeles Regional Food Bank • San Francisco-Marin Food Bank
EDUCATION
MS, Financial Engineering (Quantitative Finance) 2016
Claremont Graduate University - Drucker School of Management BA, Economics 2011
University of California, San Diego