Stephanie O’Rourk

CPA, Partner
Atlanta, GA

Stephanie O’Rourk, CPA, is a partner at CohnReznick who leads the firm’s National Hospitality Emerging Concepts and Operational and Financial Consulting Divisions. She is also a member of the Performance Improvement practice where she helps the firm increase collaboration across service lines and create new services to help clients drive growth.

With public accounting experience that began in 1991, and includes audit, advisory and tax, Stephanie has worked closely with entrepreneurs, advising clients on best practices and tax efficient strategies. Her clients consider her a trusted business advisor and value her experienced insights and business acumen.

Having worked with many of the nation’s leading hospitality growth concepts and franchisees, she specializes in implementing best practices and industry standard reporting and financial controls to set businesses up for profitable growth. Stephanie leverages her knowledge of the best-in-class technologies available to help clients achieve their goals while also creating business optimization and efficiencies. Stephanie has helped developed our Profit Enhancement Programs and cash flow management systems, which allow companies to run efficiently and to maximize their profitability. Used properly, these programs provide operators with a road map for their financial success and forecast their cash needs as their companies continue to grow. She specializes in businesses that operate one to 50 units.

As a subject matter expert for the firm’s hospitality industry, Stephanie assists the firm’s Transactional Advisory, Restructuring and Dispute Resolution Services, Value360, and CFO Advisory Groups.

Stephanie also co-leads the SBA Task Force initiative for the Firm which is focused on providing up-to-date guidance to businesses seeking financial assistance during the coronavirus pandemic. She is a sought-after speaker and has been interviewed and quoted in numerous periodicals including Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.

In 2020, Stephanie became a Board member of #ATLFamilyMeal, a Georgia nonprofit organization whose mission is to feed, nurture and support hospitality workers and their families experiencing hunger and joblessness in the metro Atlanta community. She was selected as one of the Top 50 Women in Business and was featured among Long Island’s Who’s Who of Women in Professional Services by Long Island Business News.