Kevin Janes

About Kevin Janes

As an attest & advisory IT Risk Leader, I am responsible for providing our clients with Assurance over their IT-enabled business processes and controls, as well as ensuring our client leaders have access to EY\'s multi-disciplinary teams to drive their ability to transform IT risks within their Business and IT functions. Our proven solutions, methods, and platforms ensure integration and enablement across a myriad of our IT Risk Management, Cybersecurity/Privacy, and service organization control/attest offerings. I am responsible for driving completion of our Attest services, account growth, cross-firm connectivity, and market segment specialization. A 30+ year EY veteran, my career includes a variety of public accounting and consulting experiences. I have developed a deep background in risk management, internal control reporting, and security, particularly as it relates to systems and processes in the consumer, health, and banking sectors. I serve as an Engagement Partner providing leadership, project assistance, and quality assurance to several engagement teams performing financial statement audits, internal audits, and a variety of risk-related consulting projects. Outside of work, I spend my time volunteering within local Chicago not-for-profit organizations, including great arts organizations like Giordano Dance Chicago, America’s original jazz dance company, as I believe access to the arts is a critically important part of our society. I also enjoy exploring new cultures around the world, venturing out to new wineries and restaurants, and spending time with my family and friends. I invite you to contact me to discover how EY can assist your organization in solving some of today’s most pressing technology issues as we navigate the Transformative Age.

Experience

1. Assurance Partner

   EY

   Jul 2004 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Client serving Audit and Advisor Partner in the Assurance Technology Risk Services practice of EY based in the Chicago office with a focus on providing clients with leadership, knowledge sharing, and project oversight on a variety of IT and business assurance and advisory engagements, with an emphasis on key global and middle market accounts. As a CPA, I began my career at EY performing financial statement audit, corporate reporting, and business process reviews. My primary focus addresses key IT risk, SOX 404, SOCR, Cyber, and ITGC matters, as well as integrated development and review of key business and IT process flows and related policies and procedures.• Engagement Partner providing leadership, project assistance and quality assurance for SOX 404, IT general controls, and business process controls for numerous Fortune 500 and local priority financial statement accounts, including over security effectiveness, segregation of duties within IT systems, and designing efficient audit approach.• Engagement partner or independent pre-issuance review partner on numerous third party SOCR reporting engagements, including over claims processing, lockbox, banking and trust operations, payments, cash operations, mutual fund, ETF and hedge fund accounting, inventory management, IT general controls, and other business processes. Significant SOCR clients included banking and capital markets clients, several large insurance providers, and manufacturing entities.• Engagement partner or quality assurance executive for IT internal audit teaming relationships at Fortune 500 companies within the energy, utilities, insurance, and consumer products sectors, overseeing planning, execution, and reporting.

Education

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  MBA, Information Technology Strategic Planning, Finance, and Management & Strategy

  1997 — 2000

• Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Bachelors, Accountancy

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Business Process
• Accounting
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Financial Audits
• Finance
• Financial Reporting
• Auditing
• Risk Management
• Internal Audit
• Business Process Improvement
• Internal Controls
• IT Audit
• Financial Analysis
• Cpa
• Coso
• Assurance