HA&W Tabs Industry Expert as Director of ComplianceSuccess Program

August 4, 2015

HA&W LLP, a Georgia-based tax, accounting and business consulting firm, announced that Paul Roberts has joined the firm as director of HA&W’s ComplianceSuccess Program.

Roberts joins HA&W’s ComplianceSuccess practice with 20 years of title industry experience, 17 years of which were spent working with a title insurance underwriters. Roberts has specialized experience, with a focus on escrow accounting with respect to compliance, operations, risk assessment & ERM, process improvement, due diligence, strategic management and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. 

“Working with title agent clients to independently deliver efficient, value-added ALTA Best Practices review and examination services that are second to none is our goal at HA&W,” Roberts said. “Conducting consultations with agent clients and providing solutions that are tailored to meet their individual business needs is critical to delivering best-in-class service and laying the foundation for success.”

HA&W, through its ComplianceSuccess Program, provides compliance benchmarking and assurance reporting services to ALTA’s Best Practices.  The program provides title and settlement professionals with comprehensive testing and reporting options, from an assessment of the current level of compliance to CPA attestation reporting through a review or examination engagement, across all seven pillars of ALTAs’ Best Practices.

“HA&W’s ComplianceSuccess Program has continued to experience significant growth.  With this growth, we have increased our focus on operational insights and have found that deep industry experience is critical for sustained success,” said Lee Fields, managing director of business consulting services at HA&W.  “Paul will be assuming daily operational responsibility for the practice, with an initial concentration on enhancing our delivery capabilities, creating an even more efficient compliance process for clients as they go through ALTA Best Practices testing and reporting.”


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