Justice Sakyi, CPA, PMP, CISA, CISM, CGMA

Mr. Sakyi has over 20 years of experience providing audit and advisory services to public and private-sector clients. He has performed financial statement audits, performance audits, attestation engagements, and provided consulting services on large, complex federal agencies such as the Department of Education, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Medicare and Medicaid, National Institute of Health, U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), AmeriCorps, and West Virginia University.  Mr. Sakyi’s expertise includes financial statement audits, audit remediations, risk management, accounting and advisory services, internal controls assessments following the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Green book, policy review and update, business process engineering, compliance with Federal Acquisitions Regulations and the 2 CFR, 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements, and Federal Financial Management. 

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Mr. Sakyi has a strong understanding of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reporting circulars including OMB Circular A-136, Financial Reporting Requirements,  OMB Circular A-123, Management's Responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Control  (and its accompanying appendices (Appendix A, B, C, D), Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) standard, GAO’s Financial Audit Manual, and United States Treasuries Treasury Financial Manual.  Mr. Sakyi has served as a subject matter expert for agencies providing technical advice on implementing FASAB and Treasury guidance; provided recurring briefings to high-level leadership; has led training on Federal Accounting standards (5 to 330 people) and produced whitepapers that received FASAB concurrence on technical matters. Before becoming a federal government specialist in Government audit and accounting, Mr. Sakyi spent his earlier years conducting financial statement audits of commercial, employee benefit plans, private equity, and not-for-profit entities where he spent most of his time conducting Single Audits.   Mr. Sakyi has led audit projects with teams ranging from 2 to 20 team members and has been involved in all aspects of his engagements from planning and risk assessment; to design and operating effectiveness of internal controls; execution of fieldwork substantive test procedures, and documenting findings and reporting.

 

Before becoming a founding Partner at HPBS, Mr. Sakyi worked at a combination of large, mid-size, and small firms including most recently HPBS, LLC. Prior to being a partner at HPBS Mr. Sakyi worked at CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and Mitchell & Titus, previously a member firm of Ernst & Young Global (EY) during Mr. Sakyi’s tenure.