Risk Advisory Services Principal

About the Role Baker Tilly is seeking a Risk Advisory Services Principal to lead and grow our National Practice in risk services, governance, internal audit, compliance, IT and cybersecurity. This role drives client service excellence, strategic direction, and financial success while building an entrepreneurial, collaborative environment for the team. What You'll Do

• Provide leadership, management and strategic direction with focus on exceptional client service, an environment where associates can learn and grow and financial success obtained through growth and sound fiscal decision making
• Translate firm vision and strategy into an actionable business plan, provide specific objectives to be accomplished and monitor progress
• Team with marketing to develop sales and marketing plans, investigate and pursue areas for expansion of services within existing client base while also pursuing new clients, actively participate in proposals
• Coordinate firm resources to ensure the best products and services are provided to clients
• Ensure your team members are provided with meaningful training and development opportunities, are appropriately challenged by increasingly complex work, are presented with timely and thoughtful feedback and are positively recognized for their efforts
• Oversee the profitability of the practice to include effective utilization of personnel, appropriate rates for services provided, timely collection of fees
• Work closely with client executives and management teams to understand their businesses and assist in identifying and managing financial and operational risks within their business systems to ensure technology risks are managed
• Develop in-depth knowledge of clients’ businesses and industries by having direct client interaction while working on multiple aspects of an engagement
• Think independently and strategically about your clients’ business, systems and risks providing recommendations for business and process improvements based upon knowledge gained relative to the client’s operations, processes and business objectives
• Provide strategic business advice to clients by assisting in the implementation of new processes and controls that address key risks
• Assess, manage and optimize business risk across a wide range of areas, including operational audit, enterprise risk management (ERM) and SOX compliance
• Review clients' processes and controls against industry frameworks, identifying gaps in design and execution, and communicating issues and recommendations What We're Looking For
• Deep industry knowledge of risk, governance, internal audit, compliance, IT and cybersecurity best practices
• Ability to translate strategy into actionable plans and drive growth for a national practice
• Proven leadership, client service excellence, and experience collaborating with marketing, sales, and delivery teams
• Strong business acumen with the ability to work with client executives to identify and manage risks
• Independent, strategic thinker with the capacity to advise on process improvements and control implementations
• Experience assessing and improving risk across operational, financial and IT domains, including ERM and SOX Compensation & Benefits