Conference: March 30 – April 2, 2026
Exhibition & DigitalPlay Summit: April 1 – April 2, 2026

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Christine Acosta

Christine Acosta

Director

Summary of experience

Christine Acosta is a Director with the RSM US National Gaming and Hospitality Group and is based in San Diego, CA. Christine was previously part of RSM providing services to tribal governments, gaming, and financial institution clients. She recently rejoined RSM in December 2022. Christine brings with her 25 years of internal audit, risk management, regulatory compliance, and accounting experience. Prior to returning to RSM, Christine spent nine years building out the internal audit function from a fully outsourced function to a co-sourced model with approximately 300 professionals. Her role included leading projects related to revising the audit universe, conducting enterprise-wide risk assessments and audit plan development, enhancing audit methodology that meets regulatory requirements and expectations, new hire onboarding and internal audit training, implementing a quality assurance and improvement program, establishing and scaling up internal audit operations, systems implementations, transforming governance reporting to Board, risk, and management committees, developing dashboards for KPI/KRI reporting and decision making, and vendor management. ​Christine was previously with a Big Four firm and two Fortune 500 companies.

In her current role, Christine leads the management and execution of Internal Audit/Minimum Internal Control Standards (MICS) and Title 31/Anti-Money Laundering portfolio of clients within the National Gaming and Hospitality Group.

Service Specialization

  • Tribal government, gaming, and financial institutions​
  • Internal Audit execution and transformation​
  • Risk assessment and audit plan development​
  • Finance and Accounting​
  • Governance reporting
  • ​Regulatory compliance, including anti-money laundering/Title 31​
  • Internal controls​
  • Process improvement​
  • Technical internal audit training
     

Professional affiliations and credentials​

  • Certified Public Accountant, California​

Education​

  • Bachelor of Science, Accounting, California State University, Sacramento
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