Claire Cornwall
National Core Audit Leader, Partner, PwC Canada
Claire Cornwall is a partner in PwC Canada’s Insurance practice, working in the Audit and Assurance Group based in the Toronto office.
Claire has extensive experience as an external auditor in both Property & Casualty and Life insurance markets, working with private, public and SEC registered insurers. As an audit partner, Claire is responsible for overall service delivery to her clients, maintaining strong working relationships with management and Board members, while adhering to PwC's quality standards.
Claire has advised clients acting as external auditor on a large number of special transactions such as acquisitions, initial public offerings, Equity and Debt Offerings and regulatory filings. Her audit experience has included multi-location audits, consolidations, business combinations, central service team coordination and internal control framework audits. Claire’s advisory experience has focused on helping non audit clients implement, test and monitor and internal control frameworks, consistent with OSC, SEC and the UK Stock Exchange requirements, managing the transition to IFRS for Canadian companies in 2011, and providing accounting advice under both IFRS and U.S. GAAP.
Claire is a past leader and frequent presenter at the PwC Canada Insurance EyeOpener breakfast series and is a co-author of PwC’s quarterly Insurance Review publication. She is a member of OSFI Advisory Working Group on audit of MCT. She is also an instructor for LOMA Canada Life Insurance and CIAA accounting courses. At PwC, she is a past member of the Women in Leadership (WIL) Committee and a WIL city champion.
In addition to her work as an author and instructor, Claire is a Member of the Honorary Board of “Live to Give Relief” – the charity that operates Dress for Success and Dress Your Best in Toronto.
Claire graduated from the University of Leeds in the U.K. with a BA (Honours) Accounting and Finance in 1996. She obtained her Chartered Accountant (UK) designation in 1999 and her CA designation in 2005. Claire joined the PwC UK insurance practice in 1996 and admitted to the PwC Canada partnership in 2009.
