Overview
Sarah Fernandez performs consumer regulatory compliance reviews and audits for financial institutions with a focus on risk management. With more than 18 years of experience in the financial services industry, she applies her extensive knowledge of bank operations and consumer protection regulations when providing compliance and internal audit services.
Sarah leads and performs audits of financial institutions and has experience assessing financial institutions internal control environments through control and substantive testing. She provides services such as lending, deposit, and loan servicing compliance reviews, Community Reinvestment Act performance evaluations, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act monitoring and scrubs, as well as consumer compliance and fair lending risk assessments.
Before joining Kaufman Rossin in 2018, Sarah was an internal auditor for a private bank in Miami. In addition to managing departmental and special audits for the financial institution, she served as a nonvoting member of its compliance management committee. Sarah is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) and a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM).
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance, Florida International University
