Blakeney Bell

Senior Manager, Audit

KPMG Data & Automation Solutions Hub, Great Lakes and Northeast Lead

Blakeney is an audit senior manager with over 13 years of experience in the public sector, higher education and other not-for-profit industries.  In her current role, she assists engagement teams across industries in understanding their client’s data to enable a modernized, technology-focused audit approach and gain meaningful insights. She utilizes her background serving engagement teams and her understanding of data and KPMG’s technology capabilities to ensure that the full suite of KPMG’s technology solutions are deployed in an efficient and effective manner. This approach includes the identification of automated routines that enhance the audit experience and increases audit quality, while incorporating artificial intelligence into the audit. Blakeney has also led the development of automated routines specific to the state & local government and higher education industries.