Sara Chambers, CPA, CFE, CAMS, CFF

Sara is a member of MNP’s Forensics and Litigation Support Services team in Calgary. Sara manages MNP’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Anti-Terrorist Financing (ATF) portfolio for Western Canada, and conducts forensic accounting and workplace misconduct investigations for a wide range of public and private clients.

Sara performs anti-money laundering compliance effectiveness reviews to help reporting entities meet their regulatory obligations. She helps clients manage their anti-money laundering risks by providing reporting entities with support in preparing their AML compliance programs, including the development of policy and procedures, risk assessment, and training documents. She conducts remediation validation engagements in response to regulatory examination findings.

She also plans, manages, and executes fact finding investigations to provide her clients with solid information to make management decisions. She investigates situations involving employee theft, dishonesty, misconduct, and other financial irregularities.

Sara’s cross-industry experience includes banks, credit unions, money service businesses, securities dealers, pensions, casinos and gaming organizations. She also works with governments and not-for-profit organizations, First Nations, and real estate and construction, retail, insurance, energy, and pipeline companies.

Sara earned a Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) in finance with Distinction from the University of Calgary in 2012. She is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), qualifying in 2017, a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), and is Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF).