Jennifer Smith-Squires

Jen has more than 15 years of experience providing assurance and advisory services and executing and leading audits of both private and large multinational organizations and SEC registrants primarily in the Chemicals & Specialty Materials Industry. Jen has led her engagement team, serving one of Deloitte’s largest clients, through the deployment of Deloitte’s innovative audit tools which resulted in value for the client while creating efficiencies and increasing overall audit quality. Jen’s focus in providing assurance services to large public companies has included accounting advisory, auditing of financial statements, preparing and delivering audit committee and management communications, addressing independence requirements and regulatory matters, and environmental, social and governance reporting.

Jen is accredited in International Financial Accounting Standards with substantial experience in the application of a wide variety of accounting pronouncements and has extensive experience with US SEC reporting, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Jen is part of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) champions network for Deloitte and serves as the ESG chemicals sector leader at Deloitte and the ESG Growth leader for the Michigan practice at Deloitte. With the growing emphasis on Sustainability and ESG services, she has focused over the past year on ESG readiness and assurance projects with public and private companies. Jen assists companies with strategies focused on reporting meaningful sustainability disclosures under the various ESG standards and frameworks such as Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Greenhouse Gas (GHG), and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

Jen has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration degree from Central Michigan University. She is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the state of Michigan.