Ian Bennington Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Ian is a customer and relationship focussed Partner delivering tailored governance, risk and compliance services to his clients. Ian leads BDO's National Ethics and Compliance services team, helping organisations to manage risks effectively in an increasingly challenging environment. Ian and his team help clients to build and improve their approach to governance, risk management and compliance and to understand and improve their organisational culture to protect organisations from financial and reputational damage and to drive better decision making and business performance.

London, United Kingdom

Helping life science organisations to manage their most complex risk and regulatory compliance challenges to protect their business and enhance shareholder value.

London And Uk

Ian leads a number of Deloitte's largest assurance and advisory engagements for global organisations helping them to establish and embed fit for purpose risk, compliance and assurance capabilities including innovative technology solutions. His recent experience includes: • Acting as Head of Internal Audit and Risk for a FTSE 100 UK based technology business• Ian leads one of our largest internal audit relationships with a large global pharmaceutical organisation• Assisting organisations to transform their approach to risk and assurance across the three lines of defence and leverage technology effectively • Lead for a major change programme at a global pharmaceutical business to establish a minimum controls compliance framework, third party framework and metrics for managing bribery and corruption risk. • Compliance maturity assessment for a division of a major global pharmaceutical business to provide advice and recommendations to assist the business in improving the compliance organisations capabilities and develop a high-level roadmap for improvement. • Led a review of the approach to regulatory compliance for a large UK based department store chain.• Head of Internal Audit for two public sector organisations. Ian was responsible for the overall delivery of the internal audit and engagement with senior management and the Audit Committee. • Delivery of a number of internal audit effectiveness reviews for FTSE 100 organisations, which involved helping to shape the strategic direction and strategy for Internal Audit teams.

Provision of risk and control assurance and advisory services to large corporates in the UK in the retail, life science and financial services sector. Recent experience has included - assisting a major global pharmaceutical business to establish a Global Compliance Audit function- lead group internal audit manager for a UK based financial services group- design and rollout of a risk management framework for a London based private equity investor and fund management business- delivery of a number of internal audit effectiveness reviews at financial services and retail businesses- recent facilitation of a number of risk workshops and delivery of briefings to help businesses understand and respond to the implications of the UK Bribery Act

Derby, United Kingdom

- Lead Internal Audit Manager for Marine division audits focussing on financial controls, fraud management, investigations and commercial processes- Management of end to end audits and close out process with senior stakeholders - Extensive international experience is Asia and Scandinavia

Nottingham, United Kingdom

-Performed work on audits of Aerospace and Defence, Consumer Business, and Manufacturing clients -Designed and executed detailed analytical procedures and ratio analyses to assess financial statement account fluctuations and risks -Observed and made inquiries of Controllers, Senior Vice Presidents, and other key financial personnel -Utilized strong interpersonal skills to build relationships with team members and client personnel in high-pressured environments

Mba, Retail

Aca, Aca

Bsc Hons, Management & Computer Sciences