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Shareen Jilka
Head of Risk & Governance and Data Protection Officer, IM Group
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DATES AT BDO 2018-2020 FORMER OFFICE Birmingham
For Shareen Jilka, Head of Risk & Governance and Data Protection Officer at IM Group, the variety of work involved in her role makes every day interesting. Shareen joined BDO’s Risk Advisory Services team in Birmingham in 2018, enticed by the opportunity to work in a Midlands-based group and renew her previous working relationship with Tim Foster, BDO’s Head of RAS in the Midlands. The two were previously colleagues at PwC, and he also was a key factor in her subsequent move to KPMG, her penultimate consultancy role before BDO. “When Tim joined BDO, he grew the Internal Audit market for the firm,” Shareen says.
“The RAS client portfolio then was very much focused on the public sector and Tim wanted to grow the commercial sector,” Shareen explains. “So very quickly 50% of my time became spent on business development – drafting proposals, working with specialists to customise those proposals, and going out with teams to attend pitches.” Delivering internal audit services to new clients was also an important part of her work. “The big wins were my ‘children’,” Shareen says. Her major clients included a FTSE-listed restaurant, pub and bar, major international clothing brand, and international medical imaging services provider.
“In 2018, I was looking for a change and was intrigued by the opportunities at BDO and Tim’s five-year plan.”
Although on the point of joining HSBC, Shareen decided that BDO had more to offer. She joined the RAS team in Birmingham with a remit to spend 25% of her time as the department manager, looking after resourcing and staff. She was also called on to apply her experience with commercial businesses.
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