2024 Business Women Awards
WOMAN TO WATCH | FINANCIAL SERVICES: Amber Bichun
Citrin Cooperman & Co. LLP partner
AMBER BICHUN UNDERSTANDS that her leadership impacts her peers at Citrin Cooperman & Co. LLP.
Bichun’s leadership, she says, is about the positive impact she creates for her clients and colleagues. Bichun’s knack for creating trusted relationships and becoming a trusted adviser is a testament to her empathetic leadership style.
The audit partner for not-for-profits and health care at the national accounting firm – which has a Providence office – helps her clients improve their bottom line by providing insights and best practices. Her skills in reviewing customer financials and transactions to identify discrepancies and opportunities for growth is a source of inspiration for her colleagues.
Peter Brown, the firm’s local managing partner, says Bichun mentors young women leaders within the firm to help them craft their goals and create a successful career path in a male-dominated industry. Her passion for mentorship, he says, helps facilitate growth and continuous education among the firm’s young employees, allowing them to strengthen their skills and contribute to the organization.
“Simply put, I love what I do and I have so much passion for being able to give back, albeit indirectly, to our community not-for-profits and health care organizations,” Bichun said. “I am grateful I can use my passion for numbers and how they play a bigger role in running a business to help further an organization’s mission.”
Bichun quickly became an audit partner after obtaining a master’s degree in accounting from Nichols College and then a certified public accountant designation. From there, Bichun continuously seeks to improve in her work and applies those traits to help the firm overall.
She leverages and implements technology within the workplace to make processes more efficient. Additionally, Bichun is a trainer in the firm’s nonprofit and health care sectors, allowing her to share her best practices with team members to increase firmwide efficiency when serving clients.
Along with her work at Citrin Cooperman, community service also drives Bichun. She leads Citrin Cooperman’s empowering diversity and gender equality committee out of the Providence office. She also sits on the firm’s national EDGE committee.