Cassandre (Petit-Frere) Birchette, Cpa Email & Phone Number

• Conduct fair lending examinations. • Contribute to NCUA’s implementation of Federal consumer protection laws and consumer compliance regulations. • Analyze and report on consumer compliance violations identified through examinations, member complaints, and other supervision reports. • Participate, as assigned, on examinations and supervision contacts related to consumer laws and regulations and provide consultation, advice, and recommendations to regional staff on matters involving consumer protection laws and consumer compliance regulations affecting credit unions. • Participate on inter-agency working groups developing policy, procedures, guides, manuals, and other documents to facilitate the implementation, supervision, and enforcement of consumer protection law and consumer compliance regulations.

Boston, Ma

• Supervise a district of 12 credit unions between $1 million and $1.2 billion in assets to oversee and monitor financial and operational health to provide an assessment of liquidity, credit, interest rate, compliance, reputation and strategic risk and provide regulatory oversight to minimize and prevent loss to the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund (NCUSIF).• Develop and implement supervision strategies for credit unions in district• Conduct independent examinations by applying knowledge of GAAP accounting and auditing theory and concepts to examine loans, evaluate investments, reconcile general ledger accounts, analyze earnings, expenses, dividends and reserves, and verify outstanding member accounts• Analyze credit union financial data prior to conducting evaluations to determine risk areas• Ensure credit union financial statements conform with applicable laws, regulations, policies, programs and procedures• Analyze the effectiveness of internal controls surrounding the oversight of cash, expenses, lending, collections, and asset-liability management• Prepare reports, memoranda, correspondence, and written responses to senior management• Provide guidance and advise credit union management to improve policies, procedures, and strategies to increase earnings and develop and assist in net worth restorations plans• Lead teams as examiner-in-charge of up to 10 examiners and specialist to complete annual exams for credit unions over $1 billion in assets• Serve as technical expert on federal consumer financial protection laws and consumer compliance regulations as a Consumer Compliance Subject Matter Examiner on a regional and SE group level • Review credit union compliance with federal regulations such as Credit Card Act, Truth in Lending Act, Flood Act, S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act, The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Bank Secrecy Act, Flood Act, Federal Credit Union Act, and NCUA Rules & Regulations.

• Manage the audit team to effectively test all accounts in the financial statements.• Coordinates with managers and partners in the planning and scope of the audit.• Test Financial Statement accounts such as revenue, compliance, mortgage servicing rights, derivatives; swaps, options, and futures.• Responsible to educate staff on all account balances and the most efficient and effective way to test the balance.• Responsible for the entire completion of the audit.• Works directly with client contacts to ensure deliverables and manage all open items• Supervise client engagement team (of 1-3 persons) in assurance and financial reporting including the provision of value added services on the preparation and presentation of financial information.• Examine and assembles data to detect deficiencies in controls, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies

• Tested financial statement accounts such as Cash, Fixed Assets, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Revenue, Equity, Operating Expenses, and Prepaid Expenses through analytics and sample testing• Effectively worked in audit teams to complete testing work in a timely manner• Specialized in Financial Services Clients, more specifically the audits of Mutual Funds • Independently perform site visits for real estate companies and inventory audits• Participated in firm wide efforts in community service, diversity and inclusion and trainings• Future Leadership Apprenticeship Program Scholar

• Verified departmental transactions on various bank systems.• Responsible for manual entry of trade processing transactions which were completed on a daily basis

Master Of Science Of Accountancy

Bachelor Of Science, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Gospel Chior, National Associationof Black Accountants, Black United BodyMinor in International Studies