About Clara

Clara Ewing has over 23 years of experience serving clients in financial reporting, internal controls and process improvement. For the past 16 years, Clara has spent 100% of her time serving clients in the public sector, and now leads RSM’s efforts to provide internal audit-related services to local governments. She started her risk management/auditing experience with Big Four accounting firms and has spent the breadth of her public accounting career working with organizations in auditing and assessing controls in internal and external audit.

Experience

Clara is success- and teamwork-driven, which determines her ability to collaborate with management to find the best solutions to help her clients succeed. Clara’s ability to work effectively with senior management, boards of directors, audit committee members and other auditors has given her the skills necessary to consult, assess and implement practical business solutions in an ever-changing environment in the private and public sectors. She is a regular presenter of internal audit-related topics at various local, regional and internal public sector events.

Her experience includes:

• Overall risk assessment and audit plan, determination of the design analysis, remediation implementation, analysis of operating effectiveness, reporting and presentations to audit committees and management
• Process assessments for the private and public sectors, to provide best practices from a variety of organizations and industries
• Implementation for process reengineering and implementation of remediation plans, including documentation of processes, policies and procedures across organizations and numerous government entities

Clara serves as the quality assurance senior director on several high-profile engagements and has performed quality assurance reviews for numerous public sector entities.

Professional affiliations and designations

• Certified internal auditor
• Institute of Internal Auditors
• Boys and Girls Club
• Frequent speaker at conferences and events on internal audit-related topics

Education

• Bachelor of Science, accounting and general business, Louisiana State University