Taylor Vollmer

About Taylor Vollmer

I’m your modern day CPA: trained to do things right and committed to doing them better.I invested the first six years of my professional career in the audit practice of a Big 4 firm. There I developed my technical capacity and keen eye for quality, led and grew numerous highly competent teams across industries and geographies, built financial statement audits from the ground up, navigated regulatory changes, and helped usher in technological advancements in an industry that was ripe for change. My successes in KPMG’s Audit practice culminated in my being asked to spearhead various local and national initiatives to stimulate innovation (D&A, continuous improvement) and employee engagement across the firm. These undertakings sparked in me an ambition to find (or create) and deploy solutions so that others, too, could do more with less. So I re-routed into KPMG\'s Advisory practice. As a consultant, I successfully guided my clients through significant financial transformation initiatives, including through providing policy/procedure assessment and enhancement support, accounting standards implementation, staff augmentation and training, project management, and related services. After capably executing on these key strategic priorities for clients in various industries all over the U.S, and in recognition of my unrelieved ambition to improve our ways of working, I was asked to step in to support KPMG\'s own back office transformation agenda where I currently serve as an Associate Director of Finance and Accounting.As I\'ve worked through three different practices of a leading professional services firm and delivered on countless audit, consulting, and internal projects, I\'ve found that efficacy and efficiency don’t always walk hand-in-hand. But they can. I’ve seen it happen. I’m making it happen. Responsibility | Restorative | Intellection | Belief | CompetitionThe views expressed are my own.

Experience

1. Associate Director, Finance and Accounting U s Controllership

   KPMG US

   Jun 2024 — Present · US

   Lead accounting operations for the firm’s Transformation Enablement Office and more than a dozen Audit departments with combined annual expenditures exceeding $400M, managing a globally dispersed team to oversee month-end close activities and deliver financial reporting tailored to diverse stakeholder needs.• Champion high-impact process improvement and reporting transformation initiatives — including service delivery model redesign, control deficiency remediation, IT system implementation, automation and artificial intelligence asset creation and deployment — to enhance data integrity, reduce manual input, and enable scalable, insightful reporting solutions.• Support strategic financial planning, including annual and long-term planning and monthly projection monitoring, in collaboration with practice CFOs, firmwide Centers of Excellence (COEs), and operational leaders.• Foster talent and culture, serving as a People Management Leader (PML) and mentor responsible for performance coaching, recruiting, and career development of finance and accounting professionals for numerous onshore and offshore colleagues.

Education

• UMN Carlson School of Management

  Bachelor of Science in Business, Majors: Accounting; Public/Nonprofit Management