Catharine Dutt is a risk consulting partner at RSM Canada LLP, based in the Toronto office. Catharine joined RSM in 2019 to help build RSM Canada’s best-in-class risk advisory practice. She works collaboratively across geographic areas and lines of business and serves as a regional market champion for the broader Canadian risk consulting portfolio. Catharine brings more than 25 years of experience and technical knowledge in financial services and risk management to her role at RSM.
Catharine provides internal audit and risk management consultation to multinational entities across a wide variety of sectors and industries. She has deep experience as a senior audit executive within global financial services—specifically financial institutions—in the areas of enterprise risk management, internal audit and internal controls.
Catharine’s prior experience includes years of progressive leadership positions at a Big Four public accounting firm, where she served financial institutions in external audit. While in public accounting, she served as interim controller for an international law firm, a role that provided deep insight into her client’s perspective. From there, she spent a decade in internal audit at the largest bank in Canada, where she gained experience in global banking and regulatory compliance. She served as head of strategy for global internal audit, leading several innovative initiatives, and held the role of chief audit executive for the U.S. branch of a multinational bank. She joined RSM’s risk consulting practice for the opportunity to help clients on a broader scale through her insight and experience.
A natural problem solver, Catharine approaches client issues by leveraging her deep and credible experience in the industry. Having been in her clients’ shoes, she is able to understand and empathetically communicate the nuances and pitfalls in solving real industry issues. She has experience with global function planning and operations, audit committee expectations, global governance and regulatory reporting, financial management, professional audit standards and data analytics.
Catharine is committed to building and sustaining a diverse and inclusive work environment through recruiting efforts, talent management and her participation in STAR, RSM’s employee network group supporting women professionals.
