Jeff Maffitt is a director with Baker Tilly’s assurance practice. He has more than 12 years of audit and accounting experience in the financial services industry with a primary focus on insurance organizations.
Jeff is a member of the firm’s assurance professional practice, where he collaborates with firm leadership and client service teams to develop accounting and auditing policies, guidance, training and tools to facilitate high-quality and consistent engagement performance. Jeff plays a substantial role in internal and external quality monitoring activities including the firm’s peer review, internal inspection and PCAOB inspection. Jeff actively researches and participates in external task forces focusing on new professional standards or emerging issues affecting the firm or the CPA profession.
- Consults and develops tools and guidance on accounting and auditing matters, specializing in the firm’s SEC issuer and insurance audit practices and PCAOB audit methodology
- Conducts internal inspections of engagement quality under PCAOB and GAAS standards, and designs quality improvement initiatives
- Develops and delivers internal training on topics of interest to the CPA profession
- Participates internally and externally in task forces and projects including new standards or services (e.g., blockchain and digital assets; cybersecurity; statutory accounting principles for insurance entities)
- Conducted financial statement audit and review engagements within the financial services industry, employee benefit and profit-sharing plan audits, and SOC 1 and SOC 2 examinations
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Digital Assets Working Group – Attestation Subgroup
- Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants (MNCPA)