Sharon Cassell

Sharon leads BPM’s Risk Assurance and Advisory Group as the Managing Director, serving as an Internal Controls and SOX Compliance leader nationwide for both public and private companies in a wide variety of industries including hospitality, gaming, blockchain and digital assets, real estate, pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, retail, consumer products and manufacturing.

Sharon has managed the internal audit function for large global companies and has led internal controls and process improvement assessments. She previously led the co-sourcing Internal Audit Engagement for the Hilton Hotels Company and managed the Corporate and Consumer Product internal audit divisions for the Walt Disney Company. She has recently worked with pre-IPO companies in their SOX readiness and supported large public companies with their SOX 404(a) and 404(b) compliance.

In her experience managing SOX compliance engagements, she has provided full-service offerings, including the development of key deliverables such as the annual risk assessment, segregation of duty and fraud analysis, business and IT risk and control matrices, walkthroughs, narratives, process flow diagrams, COSO 2013 framework assessment, SSAE 22 SOC 1 evaluation, business and IT control testing, gap analysis and management’s report of internal controls.

Sharon Cassell holds an active CPA license in California.