Dawn Williford

Dawn Williford, CRMA, CIA, has more than 25 years in public accounting, and serves as partner in Weaver’s Governance, Risk and Compliance practice. She delivers services to clients including construction audit, internal audit, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), enterprise risk management, internal controls consulting, contract compliance and quality assurance reviews. She began her career at one of the Big Four firms before transitioning to a prominent regional firm. This firm was acquired by a large second tier global accounting firm, where Dawn served as a partner for more than a decade.

Dawn has a strong focus on contract compliance and performs construction audits, vendor audits, royalty audits, licensing audits, joint venture audits, franchise audits, and large-scale, lease audits and multi-vendor audit programs. She has helped clients yield millions of dollars in cost recoveries as well as valuable process changes to help clients and their contractual parties from repeating past mistakes. Dawn assists clients with the development of their internal audit department and serves as the Chief Audit Executive for her outsourced internal audit clients.

Dawn has obtained a certification in risk management assurance (CRMA) and is a certified internal auditor (CIA). She earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance from the University of Texas at Austin.