Manage risks and grow your organization
Effective risk management is the foundation of growth for your financial services organization.
Mitigating risk helps you maximize your current performance while minimizing the potential for loss. And it gives you the confidence to capitalize on new business and technology opportunities, knowing that your organization is secure.
Wipfli is ready to help you build a more resilient, successful organization with our risk advisory services.
Why Wipfli?
Wipfli supports your monitoring and mitigation efforts with an integrated perspective and proactive guidance based on industry experience. We understand the challenges you face in managing regulations and assets, and we’re ready to help you apply the strategies needed to mitigate risk across your organization.
With talent, tools and holistic solutions, we can support the full spectrum of your governance, control and compliance needs.
Our risk advisory services for financial services organizations include:
Regulatory compliance
Get support for navigating an ever-changing, complex regulatory landscape with Wipfli. Our team brings extensive experience and risk-based solutions to help strengthen your compliance management system.
Governance, risk and controls
Wipfli’s integrated services help you build a more resilient and transparent organization. We offer industry specific support for managing your governance, risk and controls, including ALM consulting, call report assistance and FDICIA compliance services.
Loan review and loan portfolio services
Wipfli provides proactive support in helping you develop an effective loan review function. Our experienced loan professionals can help you confirm the quality of your risk ratings and make more informed decisions about lending.
Technology risk advisory
New technology brings new opportunities and new risks. Wipfli can help you manage technology risk with industry-specific support for cybersecurity and data privacy, digital forensics, SOC audits and IT controls reviews.
Forensic advisory services
Wipfli can help you investigate fraud and build resilient strategies with our forensic advisory services. We apply the latest technology and decades of experience to helping you recover and emerge stronger after an incident.
Fraud investigation and litigation support
Trust is vital to your organization’s success. Let Wipfli help you prevent, identify and address fraud effectively. We understand the industry and the diversity of fraud risks your organization faces, positioning us to better help you protect it.
Operational risk management services
Identify, prioritize and mitigate your operational risks with Wipfli. Our team brings a unique perspective and experience in navigating complex financial services operations, positioning us to help you build a more resilient, strategy-driven organization.
ESG
Wipfli’s ESG and sustainability services can help you build and execute a valuable ESG strategy. From developing your plan and building awareness to managing reporting and implementation, we can support you throughout your ESG journey.
Our team
Sarah G. Lutzke, CIA
Sarah leads the internal audit service line for Wipfli. Still deeply involved with her clients, Sarah leads outsourced internal audit engagements and manages co-sourced arrangements, ensuring Wipfli’s risk management consulting assistance is tailored to the individual circumstances of each client. Sarah has the experience and ability to evaluate controls within a process and provide sensible recommendations to strengthen operating environments.
Carrie Connell, CPA
Carrie Connell began her career in audit in 2003 and today works in our risk advisory group with clients primarily in the financial services industry. She is experienced in both public and nonpublic financial statement audits, employee benefit plan audits, regulatory compliance audits and fraud and forensic accounting. On numerous occasions, Carrie has assisted de novo institutions in transitioning from an organizational stage to fully operational companies. She specializes in administering and performing Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance for accelerated filers and smaller reporting companies, FDICIA compliance and operational and financial internal audits.
Kathy Enbom, CRCM
Kathy Enbom is a leader of the firm’s regulatory compliance and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) services. She has an extensive background in regulatory compliance, marketing, and leadership that includes significant training in developing, delivering, and implementing instructional programs. Kathy uses this experience to enhance consultative interaction by providing guidance and resources to assist clients in improving their overall compliance management system.
Thomas J. Loring, CISA
As a senior manager in Wipfli’s risk advisory services practice, Tom Loring performs a variety of functions in internal controls, information technology (IT), and information security. He performs technology auditing in all areas of IT-related controls, including IT department organization and administration, daily operations, software change management, logical security, and physical security.
Client success story
Wipfli helped Cross Insurance reduce risk and increase its resiliency through disruption.
