Katie Erkkila
Partner, Professional Practice Director, Audit Services, Grant Thornton LLP
Principal, Grant Thornton Advisors LLC
Katie is a partner and Professional Practice Director (PPD) in the Midwest region.
Chicago, Illinois
Service Experience
- Audit & Assurance
Katie Erkkila
Executive summary
Katie is a partner and Professional Practice Director (PPD) in the Midwest region. As PPD, Katie is responsible for risk management and implementing and monitoring the firm’s system of quality control primarily for assurance services. She works directly with engagement teams and their clients in the identification and resolution of accounting, auditing, and regulatory matters. Katie has extensive experience supporting engagement teams in planning and executing integrated audits and supporting engagement teams through the regulatory inspection process.
Experience
Katie has more than twenty years of accounting and auditing experience and has been with Grant Thornton for substantially all her career. In addition to working in the Chicago audit practice, Katie completed a short-term rotation in the firm’s Audit Risk Management group, which is responsible for the firm’s internal inspection program, regulatory inspections and root cause evaluation program. Katie also spent two years working for a Chicago based Fortune 500 public company managing their Sarbanes-Oxley implementation.
Professional qualifications and memberships
- Certified Public Accountant, Illinois
- Member, American Institute Certified Public Accountants
Community involvement
- Accounting Advisory Board, Executive Committee – Indiana University, Kelley School of Business
- Public Accountant Registration and Licensure Committee - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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