Will Ansah
Area of Focus
Risk consulting
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Will Ansah

Partner, Risk Consulting
Will Ansah
Area of Focus
Risk consulting
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About Will

Will Ansah is a partner in the risk consulting practice of RSM US LLP. Based in the firm’s New York office, Will has over 17 years of experience providing risk consulting services to financial institutions.


Experience

Will Ansah has over 17 years of experience providing risk consulting to several financial services institutions. He leads the Tristate and Northeast risk consulting financial institutions practice at RSM US LLP and interacts extensively with industry executives and regulators; he has a strong focus on high-quality service delivery. Over the past five years, Will has served more than 30 financial institution clients with asset sizes ranging from $500 million to over $250 billion. He has been a featured panelist at key Institute of Internal Auditors and American Bankers Association industry events and has published several articles and thought leadership in the financial institutions space. 

Will has extensive technical and leadership experience in risk management, serving audit and risk advisory clients in the areas of internal audit, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA) compliance, consumer and commercial regulatory compliance (including Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering), loan review, enterprise risk management, corporate accounting support, asset-based lending and securitization, servicing/loss mitigation, finance operations, vendor due diligence, mortgage operations and servicing, system implementation, model validation, forensic analysis, accounting policy interpretation, regulatory reporting, and accounting restatement. He is one of RSM’s subject matter experts in the asset-based lending, asset- backed securities, model governance and stress testing area. 


Professional affiliations and credentials

  • Certified public accountant: District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and New York
  • Certified fraud examiner
  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • American Bankers Association
  • Institute of Internal Auditors
  • Institute of International Bankers
  • Association of International Bank Auditors
  • Structured finance industry group

Education

  • Master of Business Administration, finance and real estate, American University
  • Bachelor of Arts, economics, honors, University of Maryland
  • Bachelor of Science, accounting and finance, University of Maryland