Ann Cheeseman

Ann Cheeseman is a Partner in the Financial Services Office Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) practice of the EY.

Ann leads the firm’s national regulatory broker/dealer and futures commission merchant (FCM) non audit offerings. She has over 30 years of experience in financial services working in both external audit, internal audit and other advisory roles.

Ann helps organizations address technical accounting and financial regulatory issues holistically. Areas of functional focus include broker/dealer and FCM financial regulatory reporting and US GAAP/IFRS/SEC technical accounting and reporting. Ann has led projects assisting clients in assessing regulatory and accounting compliance, remediating gaps identified with sustainable leading practices and documenting policies and procedures for ongoing training.

Ann also has broad governance and control knowledge from her experiences, including participating in PCAOB audit inspections of her public audit clients, leading controls projects such as documenting and testing SOX 404 / SEC Rule 17a-5 controls and service organization control report (SOC1) engagements.