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Steve Byrne

Senior Director

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1 Park Plaza, Suite 1050
Irvine, CA 92614

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Steve Byrne is a Senior Director at Ankura based in Irvine. Steve has over 25 years of experience involving financial accounting and reporting, auditing, internal controls, and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) rules and standards. He has extensive experience across the financial services industry and provides a broad range of expert and consulting services involving accounting and audit advisory, internal controls, and the broker-dealer and investment management industries.

Experience

Before joining Ankura, Steve was a Partner and Co-founder of Blue Diamond Audit Consulting, LLC (Blue Diamond). While at Blue Diamond, Steve helped develop an audit consulting business for auditors of broker-dealers from scratch. Steve provided PCAOB-registered audit firms with engagement quality reviews, pre-PCAOB inspection reviews and annual practice monitoring reviews of broker-dealer audits performed in accordance with PCAOB audit standards. These reviews included detailed and meaningful feedback to auditors regarding their compliance with PCAOB standards and ways to improve efficiencies. Steve also developed and executed training courses specifically designed to teach auditors of broker-dealers how to comply with PCAOB standards and earn continuing professional education credits in the process. In two years, Steve helped grow Blue Diamond from its infancy to a client base of more than 40 CPA firms throughout the United States.

Before starting Blue Diamond, Steve worked as an inspection leader/inspection specialist at the Division of Registration and Inspections at the PCAOB. While at the PCAOB, Steve helped develop the broker-dealer inspection program and led and/or performed inspections of broker-dealer audits for eight years. Prior to the broker-dealer program, Steve inspected issuer audits at public accounting firms large and small, including international firms.

Prior to joining the PCAOB, Steve worked as a senior audit manager at a big four accounting firm. In this role, Steve managed financial statement audits of mutual funds, hedge funds, and other investment products as well as investment advisors. His client portfolio mostly consisted of publicly held financial services companies.

Education
  • MBA, University of Hartford
  • BSBA, Accounting, Western New England College
Certifications
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

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