Baker Tilly US US | Financial Institution Senior Consultant (SOX and FDICIA Controls)

What you will do

• Please discuss the work location status with your Baker Tilly talent acquisition professional to understand the requirements for an opportunity you are exploring.
• If yes, consider joining Baker Tilly (BT) as a Financial Institution Senior Consultant (SOX and FDICIA Controls)!
• You want to continue to expand your work experiences and hone your skills as a comprehensive risk professional in the areas of compliance, enterprise risk management, governance, internal controls, and data analytics.
• You crave the opportunity to be part of a fast growing, entrepreneurial risk consulting practice where your hard work and creativity will be rewarded
• Work closely with client executives and management teams to understand their businesses and assist in identifying and managing regulatory compliance risks within their business processes and systems.
• Implement new or updated regulatory requirements, and translate regulatory requirements to ensure financial institution compliance.
• Develop and maintain a broad knowledge and awareness of the financial institution industry and regulatory changes and identify potential impacts to compliance audit programs.
• Support our internal audit practice as Subject Matter Expert on regulatory and compliance topics.
• Provide strategic business advice to clients by assisting in the implementation of new regulatory requirements.
• Assist with managing client engagement teams, along with staffing, billings/collections, and ensure client profitability targets are met.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of direct, hands‑on experience with SOX and/or FDICIA internal control programs within the financial services industry, with banking experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to execute key components of SOX and/or FDICIA programs, including coordination with process and control owners, internal audit, external audit, and other key stakeholders.
• Experience communicating control observations, testing results, deficiencies, and remediation matters to client stakeholders and engagement leadership.
• Strong analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand business processes, identify risks, and evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication, collaboration, project management and time management skills.
• Strong sense of urgency and client responsiveness.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related program
• Demonstrated experience with internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR), including process and control documentation, walkthroughs, risk and control assessments, control testing, evaluation of control design and operating effectiveness, identification of control deficiencies, and remediation
• Prior experience in a client-serving consulting, advisory, or public accounting environment supporting financial institution clients and/or experience within a financial institution’s SOX/FDICIA, internal controls, internal audit, or related risk function
• Ability to travel up to 10%

Baker Tilly US, LLP

The firm's roots in the United States go back to 1931, when it began as Virchow, Krause & Company, and the current partnership was organised in 1953. It joined Baker Tilly International in 1999 and took the Baker Tilly name in 2009. It has since grown through mergers with ParenteBeard in 2014 and Squar Milner in 2020, among others. Baker Tilly provides audit and assurance, tax, and advisory services, with a CPA firm handling attest work and a separate advisory group handling tax and consulting.

• Industry: Accounting, tax, assurance and advisory services, including managed accounting services
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, United States (U.S. member firm of Baker Tilly International)