Jimmy Walker is the Advisory Leader for the Michigan KPMG offices. He has more than 20 years of professional services experience, including extensive international experience providing advisory projects across numerous Fortune 1,000 companies. Jimmy has developed C-Suite relationships and brought KPMG’s cross-functional capabilities to these clients that span from strategy projects, business and IT implementation solutions, risk consulting services, as well as transformational leading practices that help improve business outcomes. Jimmy started his career at KPMG Argentina. Given that he is bilingual in English and Spanish he was assigned to multiple international advisory projects across Latin America (e.g., Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Argentina). Concurrently to working at KPMG Argentina, Jimmy was also an Assistant Professor of two senior courses at the Argentine University: “General Management”, and “Business Strategies”, where he taught for five years. In 2003 Jimmy participated in the Global Mobility program and was selected to be part of the team to help build the advisory practice in Detroit.

Jimmy specializes in the overall coordination and management of global internal audit engagements and operational projects for Fortune 1,000 companies and privately-owned clients, including outsourcing, co-sourcing, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx) support. Jimmy’s breadth of advisory experience also includes performing strategic risk assessments, implementing balanced business scorecards and other management information systems, reengineering, and redesign of business processes including business risk assessment, process analysis, and improvement, mergers, and acquisitions, development of continuous monitoring tools, enterprise risk assessments, aligning process objectives to business strategies, fraud identification and prevention, and benchmarking. This has included running operational reviews and financial restatement support at a Fortune 50 company. Jimmy earned his Bachelor in Business Administration from the Argentine University, is a Six Sigma Green Belt from the University of Michigan, Certified Internal Auditor and Certified in Control Assessment by the IIA, and a graduate of Georgetown University – KPMG’s Latin American Executive Leadership Program.