About the Role
Baker Tilly's Risk Advisory practice provides a full spectrum of services to help clients assess risks, develop strategies, and achieve goals through deep industry knowledge of risk, governance, internal audit, compliance, IT, and cybersecurity best practices. This role offers an opportunity to work with entrepreneurial principals in a fast-growing firm.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership, management, and strategic direction focused on client service, associate development, and financial success.
- Translate firm vision and strategy into an actionable business plan with specific objectives and progress monitoring.
- Collaborate with marketing on sales and marketing plans, investigate service expansion within existing clients, pursue new clients, and actively participate in proposals.
- Coordinate firm resources to ensure optimal product and service delivery to clients.
- Ensure team members receive meaningful training, development, challenging work, timely feedback, and positive recognition.
- Oversee practice profitability, including personnel utilization, appropriate service rates, and timely fee collection.
- Work closely with client executives and management to understand businesses and identify/manage financial and operational risks.
- Develop in-depth client business and industry knowledge through direct interaction and engagement work.
- Think independently and strategically about client businesses, systems, and risks, providing recommendations for improvements.
- Provide strategic business advice to clients, assisting in the implementation of new processes and controls to address key risks.
- Assess, manage, and optimize business risk across operational audit, ERM, and SOX compliance.
- Review client processes and controls against industry frameworks, identifying gaps, and communicating issues and recommendations.
- Drive significant new business development, including identifying, sourcing, pursuing, and winning risk advisory opportunities.
- Produce comprehensive executive summaries and final reports, documenting and reviewing engagement work papers.
- Act as a valued business advisor, build relationships, and communicate effectively to provide superior client service.
- Lead professional and effective presentations to internal and external audiences.
Requirements
- Recognized industry experts with well-rounded experience in risk services.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, or related program.
- CPA, CIA or equivalent designation(s) required.
- Twelve (12)+ years of experience with risk advisory, internal/external audit, business process reengineering, and/or internal controls.
- Internal audit experience in technology, real estate, life sciences, financial services, or healthcare preferred.
- Seven (7)+ years of supervisory experience, mentoring and counseling associates.
- Successful track record of building and growing a Risk Advisory practice, including team and client base development, and revenue management.
- Proven track record of new business development.
- Ability to lead and supervise others.
- Ability to provide exceptional client service.
- Commitment to continuous learning to stay current on strategies.
- Ability to see the 'big picture' as well as the details.
- Demonstrate appropriate ethical knowledge and commitment.
- Exhibit a sense of urgency and commitment to quality and timely project completion.
- Ability to travel as needed for client engagements.
Skills
- Risk advisory
- Internal/external audit
- Business process reengineering
- Internal controls
- Technology risk management
- Operational audit
- Enterprise risk management (ERM)
- SOX compliance
- Sales and marketing
- Client relationship management
- Team leadership
- Financial and operational risk assessment
- Business advisory
Experience Level
- Principal
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, or related program
- CPA
- CIA
About the Company
- Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major U.S. regions and leading international financial centers.
- Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP provide professional services through an alternative practice structure.
- Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm providing attest services.
- Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services and are not licensed CPA firms.
- Baker Tilly is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion.
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Equal Opportunity
- Baker Tilly is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state or local law.
