Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance

INTERNAL AUDIT, RISK & COMPLIANCE

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Our team is passionate about helping FTSE, internationally listed businesses, and high-growth organisations find the best talent for their 2nd and 3rd lines of defence assurance teams. Internal audit, internal controls testing/ implementation and documentation, enterprise risk management, and compliance; are all specialisms that our team can advise you on. We can help you across a range of sectors; industry and commerce, financial services, and not-for-profit.

Corporate governance roles we recruit for: 

INTERNAL AUDIT 

RISK MANAGEMENT 

INTERNAL CONTROLS 

SOX, J-SOX, and UK SOX 

COMPLIANCE 

OUR TEAM OF SPECIALISTS:

These 2nd and 3rd line specialisms have been at the core of IAC since the company was founded in 2011. Our database and network stretch as far back as 1995 when our co-Founder, Guy Stacey commenced his career in governance recruitment. Guy now focuses on Executive Search, alongside Julia White.

Julia heads up the “in-house” 2nd and 3rd line defence recruitment team. Alyssa Walsh and Ross Jenkins join her in helping teams find talent across the Globe. The team operates on a global scale, helping find talent in the UK, EU, US, South America, Middle East, Asia, and Australia. If you would like to arrange a consultation with our team about an upcoming recruitment process, contact us at Julia.white@iac-recruit.com

What our Clients and Candidates say

What type of recruitment search do you need?

Retained/ Exclusive search;

Partnering with IAC exclusively allows our team to dedicate more time, resources, and methods to find you the best possible candidate. As well as providing an in-depth and thorough brief to the candidates who are actively looking for a new role, we will perform a deep dive into the “passive” candidate market. This allows you to maximise the number of people you assess for the role. Passive candidates also tend to not be involved in as many recruitment processes!

This type of search provides us the time to map the market, your competitors, and make sure we have rigorously scoured the market for the best person. 50% of clients now choose to work in this way. Handing a recruitment process fully to one specialist will save you time, and increase the chance of successfully filling the role.

Contingent search;

For some searches, a contingent search works best, and we would advise you on when this is the case. We have a rich database of candidates who are actively looking. Working contingently will allow you to access these “live” candidates.

For a deeper dive into the candidate market; in particular, seeking out candidates who are not actively interviewing with other businesses, we recommend an exclusive search so we have the time to map out the entire candidate market for you.

Interim/ Fixed term contractor search;

We can provide you with candidates who are looking for contract positions. These candidates are usually immediately available. You will need to tell us if this contract is inside or outside IR35 for a day rate contractor.

We are an Intenational search firm

We also support global talent recruitment. Many of our clients are global businesses and need international capabilities and flexibility. Previously, we have hired across all 7 continents including the following regions:

UK, Europe, North America, South America, APAC, Middle East, and Africa.

Since Brexit, we have been a huge advocate for supporting clients to continue hiring European talent. We believe it is important to maintain the quality of candidates that we have worked with previously.

The language aptitude and cultural diversity that international hires can offer an organisation are crucial in any internal audit department, global or otherwise.

Click to listen to Julia White speak at the IIA Conference about this.

Not just recruitment...

We do so much more than only help you recruit strong talent.

Our team is dedicated to helping assurance professionals in their career development.

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Internal Audit Events

 

Past events have included:

  • Roundtable: UK Corporate Governance Code reform aka UK SOX
  • An afternoon with Audit Committee Chairs to discuss advice of how become effective Chair leaders alongside their learnings from years of navigating permacrisis and transformations in a variety of sectors.
  • Diversity & Inclusion roundtables – the chance to discuss D&I in the assurance space.
  • An audience with Robert Peston; his stance on climate change, the government, and our post-Pandemic society.

To hear about future events please contact us at events@iac-recruit.com

We always stay up to date with market information:

  • Salary information to help you benchmark
  • Examples of job descriptions to help you attract people into your team
  • Key trends and skillsets that other companies are seeing.
  • Advice on how to retain people in your team, how to attract the best talent, and how to develop your people.

FYI: Changes to UK Corporate Governance Reform

This is an area of real interest to many UK-listed businesses given the upcoming requirements by the government. We have a strong database of candidates who have performed controls gap analysis, implemented controls frameworks, designed new and more efficient controls, documented and tested controls,  and fundamentally improved the controls culture across the business.

Therefore if you are planning to implement UK SOX please reach out to us at Julia.white@iac-recruit.com

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