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Kirby Rattenbury
Audit & Assurance Partner
Chief Strategy Officer | Deloitte & Touche LLP
Kirby is the chief strategy officer of Deloitte’s US Audit & Assurance business. In her role, Kirby is responsible for the development and execution of strategic initiatives, defining direction and objectives for evolving our business, and supporting strategic alignment across the Audit & Assurance Executive Leadership Team, globally, and across Deloitte’s businesses (including across our multidisciplinary model).
Kirby is also an Audit & Assurance partner in the financial services practice and currently serves as a lead client service partner within the Banking & Capital Markets industry. She is passionate about innovation in fintech and previously served as Deloitte’s Audit & Assurance National Fintech co-leader. Kirby has experience serving distinguished clients in banking, lending, payments, fintech, real estate, securities, and insurance. Kirby has provided leadership and exceptional service to her clients through regulatory challenges and their resolution (FHFA, OCC, FRB, FDIC), initial public offerings, strategic growth initiatives, management transitions, global acquisitions, IT system implementations and transformations, cost efficiency initiatives, and geographic realignments. She has experience in the adoption and application of accounting, regulatory, governance, and internal control standards and practices. Kirby is fluent in the needs of public SEC filers and regulated institutions, and her background includes on-call technical accounting services, carve-out financial statements, securitizations, and other structured transactions.