Mike Wetklow, an internal control and risk specialist, has taken on the role of chief risk officer at the Internal Revenue Service.
In a LinkedIn post published Thursday, Wetklow said he is “excited to join an organization dedicated to public service and to help drive innovation, leverage data, and improve compliance processes.”
“Most importantly, I look forward to collaborating with the talented team at the IRS and contributing to an environment where we can all thrive,” he added.
In this capacity, Wetklow will oversee the agency’s Enterprise Risk Management and Enterprise Audit Management programs, promote risk awareness, ensure proper risk management ownership by the business units and represent the IRS in the Treasury ERM Council, the Federal ERM Council and other forums, among other responsibilities.
Prior to joining the IRS, he spent eight years at the National Science Foundation, where he was deputy chief financial officer and division director for financial management, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Wetklow serves as an adjunct professor at George Mason University, where he teaches federal accounting and advanced accounting analytics.
He is a certified public accountant whose government career included time as a branch chief at the Office of Management and Budget, director of the Internal Control Program Management Office at the Department of Homeland Security, program analyst at the Transportation Security Administration within DHS and financial auditor at the Government Accountability Office.
Wetklow also served as a supervising senior accountant at KPMG US.