It is not always possible for an organisation to keep its own internal audit department sufficiently staffed, or up to date with the relevant skills or experience to consistently deliver a value-added service. Organisations who find themselves in this situation are invariably turning to external providers to acquire assistance for their in-house team and to benefit from the greater independence and flexibility afforded by an external resource.
With a wealth of experience in providing internal audit services to corporate and public sector organisations throughout the UK and internationally, we can work alongside your in-house function to provide valuable skilled support whenever you require it. We offer a Positive Partnering approach that can take many forms, from the conduct of individual audits or groups of audits to specialist audits (e.g. IT, HR, tax, procurement and contracts, EU funding, VFM, counter fraud etc) to the provision of internal audit management etc. Importantly skills transfer, which helps to enhance the skills and effectiveness of your own staff, is always at the top of our priority list.
We can also provide staff on direct secondment or enter into more complex partnership arrangements, to provide you with:
- Skill transfers
- Best practice information
- Additional training
- Consultancy services
- Audit and risk software solutions
Why would you need it?
- You need to meet short term resource problems e.g. through sickness or unplanned work/fraud cases, difficulty in recruiting etc
- You require specialist skills which are not available within your own internal audit team
- You want to improve the standard/skills/experience and methodology of your in-house team through a partnership arrangement