CURRICULUM VITAE · 2026
David Kitchens, CPA
Internal Audit · Data Analytics · Governance Systems
Profile
CPA with 10+ years across internal audit, SOX compliance, financial operations, and analytics. Builds governance-grade systems using dimensional modeling, reconciliation, and automation. Known for clean, defensible workpapers and repeatable tooling that holds up under reviewer scrutiny.
Experience
Commission Analyst II
UMB Bank · Corporate Commissions · Kansas City, Missouri
- Support reporting, validation, controls, implementation activity, and process improvement within a complex financial-services operation.
- Contribute to platform implementation through testing, model validation, migration planning, and parallel-run coordination.
- Develop repeatable reporting and reconciliation workflows while preserving reviewability and human judgment.
Senior Auditor / Compliance Contractor
UMB Bank · Internal Audit · Kansas City, Missouri
- Performed risk-based internal audit, SOX, compliance, and analytical work across financial-services operations.
- Developed repeatable workpapers, resource analytics, reconciliation layers, and reviewer-reliance controls.
- Translated complex populations and control requirements into defensible, reusable analytical workflows.
Senior Compliance Auditor
BOK Financial · Remote / Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Delivered risk advisory across internal audit, SOX compliance, and data analytics for a regional bank holding company.
- Analyzed general-ledger, accounts-payable, and accounts-receivable populations to extend coverage beyond traditional sampling.
- Developed control frameworks, risk assessments, and SOX documentation and testing.
Risk Advisory Senior
CBIZ Stinnett · Remote / Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Led internal-audit, SOX, and management-consulting work across financial-services clients.
- Standardized workpaper documentation and delivered firm-wide CPE training on audit methodology.
Corporate Controller
Noble Health Corporation · Leawood, Kansas
- Built financial-reporting infrastructure for a multi-facility healthcare operation.
- Led cost analysis, cash forecasting, and cash management across a complex multi-entity structure.
- Identified and reported material financial irregularities later referenced in national and regional coverage of a federal investigation.
Owner / Principal
DAK Consulting · Lenexa, Kansas
- Provide selective SOX, internal-audit, vendor-audit, implementation, and analytics consulting.
- Design audit-grade processes, controls, and analytical tooling focused on repeatability and governance.
Independent Studio
Dropdown Logistics
Independent analytics and governance studio applying one systems architecture across audit, finance, trading, healthcare, knowledge, and operations.
- AuditForge: governed audit operating system with controls, findings, documents, roster, and billing.
- Excelligence: governed, interactive graph of Excel concepts, patterns, and learning paths.
- Evidence Portfolio: BlindSpot, PositionBook, SlopeStat, AdmitOne, and Ledger.
- Knowledge Infrastructure: Knowledge Vault and local corpus retrieval through Dex Jr.
- AI Review Council: independent multi-model review with preserved evidence and operator authority.
Technical
- Excel & data
- Power Query, LET/LAMBDA, dynamic arrays, PivotTables, dimensional modeling, star schemas
- Automation
- VBA, Power Automate, Power Apps, Python, PowerShell
- Platforms
- Anaplan, Alteryx, TeamMate+, Workiva, Pentana, Salesforce
- Development
- Git, React, Next.js, Vercel, AI-assisted systems
Credentials & Education
- CPA
- Certified Public Accountant · Active
- M.S. Accounting
- University of Kansas · 3.8 GPA · 2009
- B.S. Accounting
- University of Kansas · 2008