- Driving best practice process efficiency /improvements, by providing meaningful business insights and challenging the status quo as appropriate, ensuring stakeholder buy in to deliver pragmatic solutions. - Identifying a set of fundamental gaps to help unlock unrealised business benefits over a circa £1m Group logistics network optimisation exercise, ultimately resulting in widespread and pervasive Group-wide control improvements currently being adopted across the business -… Show more - Driving best practice process efficiency /improvements, by providing meaningful business insights and challenging the status quo as appropriate, ensuring stakeholder buy in to deliver pragmatic solutions. - Identifying a set of fundamental gaps to help unlock unrealised business benefits over a circa £1m Group logistics network optimisation exercise, ultimately resulting in widespread and pervasive Group-wide control improvements currently being adopted across the business - Delivering effective solutions to help the business achieve sustainable cost savings through assurance reviews - identifying and exposing over £3m worth of projects at risk on a pre-emptive and proactive basis - Spearheading a number of corporate fraud investigations globally, the largest relating to cash misappropriation of circa €0.3m - Leading multiple post implementation reviews for strategic initiatives across the Group, including a post completion audit over a circa £9m UK restructuring project - Launching an innovative Group-wide enterprise risk management process, by developing and driving a robust risk framework, KRIs and risk appetite / tolerance thresholds, with responsibility for strategic risk reporting to the Exec team and the Board on an ongoing basis - Establishing an effective, efficient, automated, robust and user-friendly year end corporate governance reporting framework, focused on control self assessment and a tailored programme of validation testing - Proactively managing the external audit tender process for the Group (both in 2011 and then again in 2021), resulting in the appointment / retention of Group-wide external auditors, with annual audit cost savings of circa £200,000 from 2021 onwards - Sharing responsibility for the wider ESG agenda for the company, by being a valued member of the ESG Steering Group, co-ordinating our ESG activities and reporting responsibilities, whilst leading a cross functional team to drive our TCFD regulatory obligations Show less

• Led process and controls advisory services to the UK's largest energy company (FTSE 25) through different projects since 2007, including leading a complex, end to end process and controls enhancement project for the downstream retail business, project managing the assignment and overseeing a team of over 30 KPMG risk, control and IT practitioners over a period of 9 months• Created and delivered an outsourced Internal Audit function from 2008, at a FTSE 100 property management and… Show more • Led process and controls advisory services to the UK's largest energy company (FTSE 25) through different projects since 2007, including leading a complex, end to end process and controls enhancement project for the downstream retail business, project managing the assignment and overseeing a team of over 30 KPMG risk, control and IT practitioners over a period of 9 months• Created and delivered an outsourced Internal Audit function from 2008, at a FTSE 100 property management and development company, headquartered in the UK with operations across 9 other European countries• Implemented an automated control self assessment programme at a leading global hotels chain for a 5-year period, to drive year end corporate governance reporting Show less