Christine M. Smith

Christine is a Managing Director in the higher education and risk advisory practices. She has advised Baker Tilly clients nationally on aligning strategy and effective operations, improving fiscal condition and accountability, and creating value-added partnerships since 1998. In this role, she works collaboratively with our clients on transformative efforts to ensure fiscal sustainability and mission viability. Her focus within higher education includes strategic finance, shared services strategy and operations design, enterprise services execution, and performance optimization.  Frequently leads or advises on co-sourced internal audit services to higher education clients through governance structure design, risk assessment, and accountability framework development projects.  Christine also often serves as a subject matter expert on human capital management issues.

Her valued clients include a broad range of traditional four-year and research universities, private colleges, community and technical colleges, and university systems and extensions across the nation.