Brian Pye Email & Phone Number

ProfileBrian is a Principal in the CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA) Specialized Advisory Group. Brian has over 25 years of professional experience in providing internal audit (business process and IT), risk assessment services, information technolgy consulting, Sarbanes-Oxley and Business continuity services. He spent over 9 of these years in a Big Four Enterprise Risk Services Group in Minneapolis, performing IT / business consulting and internal auditing services for international and domestic companies.Brian’s specific experience includes the following:• Experienced with establishing, out-sourcing and co-sourcing of Internal Audit functions at major corporations with global and domestic operations.• Establishes and monitors financial, operational, IT, SOX audit plans.• Designed, executed and reviewed comprehensive information system and business process audit plans in relation to COSO, IIA and COBIT requirements.• Directs and manages business process design efforts for purposes of identifying process inefficiencies, operational improvements, process solutions and implementation for those solutions across the organization.• Developed procedures for the evaluation of information technology controls in support of a financial audit and service organization reporting.• Directs and manages information technology (IT) control audits, service organization audits, business advisory projects, internal audit projects.• Enterprise-wide risk assessments.• Application of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards).• Current state assessments, including inefficiency and process improvement identification.• Future state design and process reengineering and implementation.• Business requirements identification and ERP vendor selection processes.• Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance engagements.Specialties: Brian has experience serving clients in the following industries: Retail and distribution, non profit, financial institutions, manufacturing, alternative energy and health care.

Listed skills include Internal Controls, Sarbanes Oxley Act, Internal Audit, Auditing, and 15 others.