Colleen is a director with Baker Tilly’s risk advisory practice. With more than five years of experience, Colleen’s focus is to provide clients with internal auditing and management consulting on a wide range of business issues, regulatory compliance matters, organizational governance and internal control structures at higher education and not-for-profit institutions.
- Helps organizations and universities better identify and understand their risks, both at the department level and enterprise-wide and create plans for risk mitigation and management
- Works with colleges and universities to assess the design and effectiveness of processes and systems related to financial operations, including procurement, payroll and financial reporting
- Conducted compliance evaluations of a university to understand how the university is complying with rules and regulations, focusing on high-risk areas, including NCAA Athletics, Title IX and sponsored award compliance matters
- Performed a review of an institution’s athletic business office, including reviewing roles and responsibilities of individuals involved in procurement, assessing budgeting process of teams and performing testing of expenses
- Performed investigations related to potential fraud, including overpayments and misappropriation of funds
- Assisted a global technology service provider with an assessment of internal controls, including financial and IT controls and evaluated the risks associated with management’s control objectives and activities
- Performed a review of a multinational research university’s processes for collecting, managing and reporting enrollment and ranking data, including reviewing current policies, interviewing personnel involved in both the collecting and managing of data and performing sample-based testing to determine the accuracy of records
- Routinely interacts with clients’ senior leadership in operational meetings to discuss compliance, management and control matters
- Institute of Internal Auditors, board member, Northern Virginia Chapter
- Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)/Greater Washington Society of CPAs (GWSCPA) “Women to Watch”, 2016
