Risk Advisory Services Principal

Baker Tilly US

Join Baker Tilly as a Risk Advisory Services Principal, leading client service and helping businesses manage risks. Utilize your expertise in risk, governance, and internal audit within our premier Risk Services Practice.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeTewksbury • Connecticut, Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide leadership, management and strategic direction with a focus on providing an exceptional client service experience, 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 to clients
Be responsible for significant new business development, including identifying, sourcing, pursuing, and winning risk advisory opportunities
Produce comprehensive executive summaries and final reports for delivery to the client, documenting and reviewing engagement work papers in accordance with industry-accepted internal audit methodologies
Act as a valued business advisor, build relationships and communicate effectively with the client to provide superior client service
Lead professional and effective presentations to internal and external audiences

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, or related program
CPA or CIA designation(s) required
Twelve (12)+ year(s) experience with risk advisory, internal/external audit, business process reengineering, and/or internal controls, with internal audit experience in the healthcare, Life Sciences or Technology preferred
Seven (7)+ year(s) of supervisory experience, mentoring and counseling associates
Successful track record of building and growing a Risk Advisory practice, including building a team, a client base and managing revenue
Proven track record of new business development
Ability to travel as needed for client engagements.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

risk advisoryinternal auditexternal auditbusiness process reengineeringinternal controlsfinancial risk managementoperational auditenterprise risk managementSOX compliancebusiness process improvements

Soft Skills

leadershipstrategic thinkingclient servicementoringcommunicationteam buildingpresentation skillsrelationship buildingfeedback deliveryproblem solving

Certifications

CPACIA