Melissa “Missy” Herbert is an audit member in the Employee Benefit Services group at Warren Averett LLC. She brings more than 20 years of employee benefit plan audit and consulting experience. This experience is supported by a solid understanding of ERISA, DOL and IRS requirements and compliance and reporting and disclosure in all areas of employee benefit plans. Missy offers public and private companies plan audit knowledge combined with a strong ERISA and plan operations background. This combination provides a full service product to clients, covering virtually all aspects of a company's employee benefit plan. During her career, Missy has performed plan audits and consulting for over 850 different plans with plan bases ranging from 120-50K participants and assets from $500K to $8.0 billion. Missy also has extensive experience auditing plans that are required to file an annual 11-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Missy currently serves on the Employee Benefit Plan Task Force for the State of Georgia and the Review and Advisory Board for the Georgia Society, and she is an active member of the Women in Pensions, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants. Recently, Missy authored an audit guide on how to audit employee benefit plans, entitled Knowledge-based Audits of Employee Benefit Plans. Speaking engagements for Missy include the AICPA Employee Benefit Plan Annual Conference, Georgia Society Employee Benefit Plan Annual Conference; UBS Fiduciary Forum, and several regional state society employee benefit plan training conferences. Missy earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting at the University of New Orleans, and is a certified public accountant.