Karen Silverman

Karen is an Audit Partner in KPMG’s Northeast Financial Services practice. She has over 20 years of experience providing audits of financial statement, audits of internal controls, and attestation services for regulatory compliance. Karen has provided professional audit services to large multinational financial services companies in accordance with PCAOB and AICPA requirements and U.S. GAAP. She has also completed a rotation in the firm's Department of Professional Practice. Her primary audit experience includes SEC filings for large commercial banks and smaller community banks. Her areas of expertise include allowance for loan losses, valuation of financial instruments and income taxes. Her experience also includes debt and equity offerings, servicing exams, benefit plan audits, fund audits, and audits of other non-public entities.