Kat Springate

About Kat Springate

Director with PwC’s Financial Services Digital Assurance and Transparency practice. Experience includes roles in IT/financial audit and IT operations. Majority of experience focuses on IT and business process audits in support of financial statement audit and service attestation engagements. Knowledgeable of processes and technologies in the financial services industry, including those related to asset and investment management, trust and custody, broker-dealers, and insurance. Includes experience assessing risks and controls related to SWIFT, CSPs and DevOps within these environments.Third party reporting specialist, including consulting and standing up reporting. Specializes in SOC 1/2, AUP, HITRUST, and custom attestation reports.Experience includes third party reporting methodology liaison for regional markets, linking local clients and teams to PwC national teams and current AICPA guidance.CPA and CISA licenses. HITRUST CSF certified practitioner.

Experience

1. Director

   PwC

   Jul 2010 — Present

   Director in the Risk Assurance practice, specializing in Process Assurance and Trust and Transparency Services. Manage teams executing business process, IT general, and IT application control testing in support of SOX and private internal control audits, SOC 1, SOC 2 (including current TSP100 and helping clients to transition from 100A to 100), AUP, and HITRUST engagements. Includes engagement planning (engagement letter, scoping, budget, schedule, resourcing) and completion (issue analysis and resolution, final report). Trust and Transparency Solutions methodology liaison for Lake Erie and Greater Michigan Markets. Instructor for PwC trainings (Third Party Reporting, SAP, ITGC, new hire/promotion milestones). Guest lecturer at RIT Saunders College of Business and University at Buffalo School of Management.

Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  BS

  2005 — 2009

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  MBA

  2009 — 2010

Skills

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Internal Controls
• Soc 1
• Management
• Gaap
• Cpa
• Sap
• Project Management
• Audit
• Cisa
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office
• Accounting
• Ssae 16
• Financial Analysis
• Auditing
• Business Process
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• IT Audit