Sam Patel Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

• Partner - Financial Services Internal Audit.• Head of Internal Audit at FTSE and equivalent sized insurers• Outsourced and co-sourced internal audit at a number of Financial Services Companies including FTSE, SEC registered and privately owned• Seconded into the Head of Internal Audit role at a Lloyd’s Syndicate• Seconded into the Director of Governance role within a Financial services company overseeing their Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance and Legal functions.• Lead controls assurance work including ISAE 3402, SSAE 18, AAF, SOC reports, SOX• Lead External Quality Assessments (EQA's) over FS Internal Audit functions - including one recently on behalf of the UK regulator• Responsible for leading and building the FS Practice - involving business development, retaining key clients and internal talent, recruiting and the general operation of the department. • Overseeing a team of 50 staff.• Extensive insurance and banking network.• Lead Business Development for Financial services, Internal Audit and Advisory.

London, United Kingdom

• Partner - Head of Financial Services Internal Audit.• Outsourced and co-sourced internal audit at a number of Financial Services Companies including FTSE, SEC registered and privately owned• Seconded into the Head of Internal Audit role at a Lloyd’s Syndicate• Seconded into the Director of Governance role within a Financial services company overseeing their Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance and Legal functions.• Regularly perform work on other governance and control areas such as Board Effectiveness Reviews, s166, ISAE 3402, SSAE 18, SOC reports, SOX• Perform External Quality Assessments (EQA's) over Internal Audit functions - including one recently on behalf of the UK regulator.• Responsible for leading and building the UK Internal Audit Practice - involving business development, retaining key clients and internal talent, recruiting and the general operation of the department. • Overseeing a team of 30 staff.• Extensive insurance and banking network.• Lead Business Development for Financial services, Internal Audit and Consulting.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for supporting the accuracy and the subsequent analysis and review of financial information submitted by the International and Bupa Health Assurance business units of the Friends Group. Interpreted results and translated into clear commentary for senior management, financial statements and external reporting. • Acting as the key contact between the Group Finance team and business unit finance teams, taking ownership of supporting the business unit Finance Directors and their teams in the day to day understanding of their financial results and the linkage to the group’s results• Proactively challenged business unit results whilst building a comprehensive understanding of the drivers, risk and issues in business performance.• Took responsibility for proactively building effective partnership relationships with the business unit finance teams so that the reporting processes were robust and consistently applied and helped ensure they delivered accurate financial results to group in accordance with the group reporting timetable.• Drafted and provided input to financial statement including drafting accounting notes, policies and disclosures on areas that are directly related to the business unit that the Reporting Manager is responsible for, including confirming the accuracy of such disclosure with the business unit finance teams.• Responsible for the provision of accounting and technical support for local finance teams. This included the advice and support on accounting issues for key projects through the life cycle of the transactions, including acquisition accounting requirements.• Ensured the full integration of Bupa into the Group following acquisition. This included bringing their accounting policies in line, ensured their reporting was consistent, training them in Friends Life methodology, writing technical papers, acquisition accounting adjustments and providing guidance on ad hoc queries.

London, United Kingdom

• Senior Manager with in-depth knowledge of general and life insurance accounting policies, controls, SOX, US GAAP reporting and FSA regulation on audit and advisory services. • Audit and management of many global players and key Delioitte clients including FTSE, SEC registered and private equity companies such as Marsh Limited (part of MMC Inc.), RBS Insurance (Direct line, Churchill, Green Flag), Aon, Norwich Union (Aviva), Sun Life of Canada, Skandia, Diligenta Limited and General Insurance Corporation of India. • Subject Matter Expert (SME) on multi disciplinary Finance Transformation projects at Aviva (£57m) and Aon (£0.2m) – responsible for mapping current, ‘as is’ processes, designing and implementing the end state, ‘to be’. Ensuring processes considered are in line with insurance industry best practice and ensuring controls are in place to achieve SOX attestation. • Work on due diligences, risk mitigation plans for the FSA, internal audit assignments and requests for proposals, resulting in a broad skill set acquired and sound industry knowledge. Regularly included on new proposals due to strong CV and interpersonal skills. • Plan and deliver audits including budget setting, negotiating fees, maintaining ledgers, billing, mananging teams of between 5 and 30 people, reviewing work of others and liaising and coordinating tax, IT as well as external parties to Deloitte. Responsible for managing £2.2m of departmental revenue. • I&IM Group Manager – over the last two years primarily responsible for overseeing 200 people within the department in terms of departmental results (budget vs. actual), analysing staff utilisation, identifying staffing and training needs as well as organising departmental wide events on an annual basis. • Appraiser, Recruiter and Trainer