Financial Services

  1. Christine Anderson

    Christine Anderson

    CPA, CITP, CGMA

    Managing Partner – Growth Strategies

  2. Cecilia Angat

    Cecilia Angat

    CPA

    Partner

  3. Nirav Badani

    Nirav Badani

    CPA

    Partner

  4. Jason C. Barnes

    Jason C. Barnes

    CPA

    Partner

  5. John Basile

    John Basile

    CPA

    Partner

  6. Adam Bullock

    Adam Bullock

    CPA

    Partner

  7. Sommer Cannon

    Sommer Cannon

    MBA, CPA

    Director

  8. Zachary Carr

    Zachary Carr

    CPA

    Managing Director

  9. Paul Daddio

    Paul Daddio

    CFA, ASA

    Director

  10. Man Du

    Man Du

    CPA

    Director

  11. Brad E. Elmer

    Brad E. Elmer

    Managing Director

  12. William Grady

    William Grady

    J.D., CLU®, CFP®

    Director

  13. Gary Grush

    Gary Grush

    CPA, MST

    Partner

  14. Rick Guillen

    Rick Guillen

    CPA

    Partner

  15. Robena Jafari

    Robena Jafari

    J.D.

    Partner

  16. Kimberly Jin

    Kimberly Jin

    CPA

    Partner

  17. Kristi Oates

    Kristi Oates

    CPA

    Partner

  18. Bridget Quinn

    Bridget Quinn

    CPA

    Partner

  19. John Romano

    John Romano

    CPA, CIA, CFE, CITP, CSM

    Partner

  20. Kevin D. Schalk

    Kevin Schalk

    CPA

    Partner

  21. Larry Smetana

    Larry Smetana

    CPA

    Partner Emeritus

  22. Christopher J. Tait

    Christopher J. Tait

    MBA, CISA, CCSK, CFSA, CCSFP

    Principal

  23. Keith Troutman

    Keith Troutman

    CPA, MBA

    Partner

  24. Frank J. Walker

    Frank J. Walker

    CPA, CFF, CVA

    Partner

  25. Baker Tilly Professional

    Lauri Webster

    CPA

    Director

  26. William Wolf

    William F. Wolf

    CPA, CFF, CFE, MBA

    Partner Emeritus

  27. Jonathan Zeigler

    Jonathan Zeigler

    CPA, CITP

    Managing Partner

How can you move your organization toward the future you envision? Work with professionals who understand your financial services company and will talk with you about your challenges to help you find the right solution.

Our solutions

The financial services industry continues to diversify, but competition and more complex vendor relationships make determining business strategy more complicated.

Have confidence in our ability to assist your organization in attaining your goals because of our experience providing solutions for business needs.

  • Banking and capital markets
  • Asset management
  • Insurance

Banking and capital markets sector

  • Commercial banks
  • Community banks
  • Credit unions
  • Fintechs
  • Mortgage bankers
  • Nontraditional lenders
  • Savings institutions
  • Student loan organizations

Asset management sector

  • Broker-dealers
  • Family office/high net worth family owners
  • Funds of funds
  • General partnerships and their principals
  • Health and welfare funds
  • Hedge funds
  • Institutional investors
  • Management companies
  • Pension funds
  • Private equity firms and funds
  • Real estate investment funds and holding companies
  • Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
  • Registered investment advisors (RIAs)
  • Securities exchanges
  • Venture capital firms

Insurance sector

  • Health plans
  • InsurTechs
  • Life insurance
  • Medical/professional liability
  • Mutual insurance companies
  • Property and casualty insurance
  • Reinsurance
  • State insurance regulators
  • Insurance agencies and brokers

Grow your business

  • Agent talent strategies
  • Analytics, dashboarding and business intelligence
  • Board and audit committee advisory
  • Buy-side and sell-side advisory
  • Capital raising solutions
  • CFO advisory services
  • Cost segregation studies
  • Customer experience enhancement
  • Demutualization consulting
  • Employee stock ownership (ESOP) valuations
  • Fund formation and structuring
  • Go-to-market roadmap development and implementation
  • Growth strategy assessment and alignment
  • Market assessment
  • Merger and acquisition tax structuring
  • Payment transformation
  • Product and service innovation and launch effectiveness
  • Risk optimization
  • Strategic advisory
  • Structure review
  • Structured finance support
  • Tax credits and incentives
  • Transaction advisory, due diligence, structuring and capital formation

Optimize resources

  • Agile internal auditing
  • Benchmarking studies
  • Board and department level training
  • Change management
  • Cost containment strategies
  • Data analytics and business intelligence
  • Executive search
  • Federal, multi-state and local tax planning and compliance
  • Financial modeling and decision support
  • Financial ratios
  • HR consulting and benefits administration
  • Internal audit
  • IT operations management
  • Management company staff requirements and back office structuring
  • Outsourced and co-sourced accounting and internal audit services
  • Resource optimization
  • Robotic process automation (RPA)
  • Strategic planning facilitation
  • Sub chapter S planning
  • Tax credits and incentives
  • Vendor management services
  • Workforce and talent management

Manage risk and compliance

  • Assessments of internal controls
  • Business continuity planning/disaster recovery
  • CFPB and other consumer finance compliance assessments
  • Complex commercial dispute support
  • Compliance reviews
  • Comprehensive risk assessment framework
  • Credit and operational risk consulting
  • Cyber policy and program development, risk assessment and consulting
  • Cyber risk insurance analysis
  • Data privacy assessment, design and implementation
  • Enterprise risk management and ORSA assessments
  • FDICIA assistance
  • Fraud and forensics
  • HIPAA security assessments
  • Infrastructure stability
  • Internal audit co-sourcing and outsourcing
  • Litigation support
  • Loan reviews and collateral reviews
  • Major claims forensics
  • Market conduct investigations
  • NYS DFS cyber readiness and compliance
  • Payment card industry (PCI) compliance
  • Pricing and rate analysis
  • Regulation AB assessments and compliance
  • Regulatory compliance:
    – Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
    – FINRA Rule 3310
    – Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
    – Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
    – RESPA/Regulation Z/Dodd Frank
    – USA Patriot Act
  • Review of reserves
  • Risk or economic capital modeling
  • Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance and implementation assistance
  • Securitization due diligence
  • Security assessment (external/internal)
  • State risk-focused insurance examinations
  • Third party data center reviews
  • Trust department reviews

Gain assurance

  • ALLL/CECL (current expected credit loss) model validation
  • Actuarial due diligence and review of fair value reserves
  • Agreed upon procedures (AUP) reports
  • Attest audit and examination opinions
  • Audits of onshore and offshore funds
  • Certification of loss reserves
  • Corporate and intangible asset valuations
  • Corporate governance annual disclosure assistance
  • Due diligence
  • Employee benefit plan audits
  • Fairness opinions
  • Federal, multistate and international tax
  • Fraud and investigations
  • GIPS® verifications
  • Information systems examinations
  • Investor liquidity requirements
  • IRS practice and procedures
  • Management company operating cash requirements
  • Management fee and incentive allocation structure
  • Model Audit Rule (MAR) implementation assistance
  • Model validation
  • Operational and compliance attestation
  • Preparation of fund, management company, general partner and principals tax returns, and K1s
  • Processes and controls documentation and testing
  • Quality assurance review (QAR)
  • Reinsurance consulting
  • REIT quarterly and annual testing
  • Risk assessment and planning
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings
  • SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3 reporting services
  • State nexus consulting
  • Valuations
  • Verification of performance results
They are more than consultants. The Baker Tilly team raised the quality of our internal audit and risk management functions and helped us through the change management required to ensure success. We are extremely pleased with their work.
Craig Campbell, Chief Administrative and Risk Officer, WPS Health Solutions, Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corp.
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