John Farrell, who has more than 20 years of risk management and risk/control experience with Fortune 500 multinational clients, is the National Lead Partner for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) services for KPMG. ERM is an integrated advisory service which is primarily focused on helping clients identify, assess, manage and communicate key risks to their business as well as assisting with the development of an ERM framework and process and to embed and sustain an ERM program in their business. These services are deployed across the client’s enterprise and include all risks: strategic, operational, financial and compliance risks. John is the Americas representative on the Firm’s global ERM steering committee and is instrumental in the development of KPMG’s related approach and methodology.
John is also part of KPMG’s Internal Audit, Regulatory & Compliance Services team and is responsible for service delivery on priority accounts in the manufacturing and information/communication sectors.
Prior to joining KPMG, John served as the Director of Internal Audit for Minerals Technologies Inc. (former Division of Pfizer Inc.). His responsibilities included the design of a worldwide internal audit service for this publicly owned manufacturing and mining enterprise. In this role, John delivered a strategic monitoring of the Company’s business risk and control environment and processes. He also launched a Control and Risk Self-Assessment supplemental audit initiative.
John received a Master of Science, Accounting and MBA, Finance, from Long Island University and a BA degree from the State University of New York at Albany. He is a Certified Public Accountant in New York State and he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). He serves on the Board of Governors (and 2000/2001 President) of the Westchester/Fairfield Chapter of the IIA.
