WELCOME
Despite our low rate of staff turnover, some of our people do move on to other organisations. I enjoy keeping up with my former colleagues on a personal and business basis, looking for ways to continue supporting them in their new roles and help their organisations address their risk management and assurance challenges. In this edition of ALUMNI news , we catch up with former RAS colleagues Simon Brown , Head of Internal Audit & Risk at Sage Housing, and Shareen Jilka , Head of Risk & Governance at IMGroup. They share their current challenges and priorities, as well as reminiscing about their time at BDO and the strong culture they enjoyed here. It’s over 25 years since I joined BDO. In the last 5 years our offering has developed enormouslywith a wide range of new services and capabilities, reflecting the complexity of the environment our clients operate in and the need for deeper skills and technical knowledge across thewhole range of client operations. Our service is founded on understanding business risk, and developing solutions to optimise performance and support delivery of business strategies, which is particularly important in an environment wherewe are all embracing constant change. Our practice continues to go from strength to strength, with double digit growth year on year. More expansion is expected, both tomeet demand and develop new services, andwith that comes the opportunity for us to bring in new talent, as well as to offer significant development opportunities to our teams so that we can continue to enhance our professional resources and ensure we can provide our clients with the practical and insightful support they need.
Welcome
This edition of ALUMNI news , we shine a spotlight on our Risk Advisory Services (RAS) team and the services we provide. The world in which organisations operate keeps changing. New hot topics coming to the fore include environmental, social and governance performance and reporting, alongside the ever-growing challenges around digital technology, cyber security and data privacy. Such developments create both opportunities and risks for management teams. At BDO, we continue to innovate and invest so that our clients have access to the latest advice and assurance over these and other key risk areas. The growing needs of our clients continue to be met by our evolving and changing RAS team. We recently welcomed two new partners: Michael Stallard and Raoul Rambaut . This autumn we will also be welcoming another new partner who will focus on internal audit for large corporates. Our team services a wide range of industries and sectors including private, public, and not for profit entities. Nationally, around 60% of our work relates to internal audit, with over half of that work now performed for large corporates. Recently, strong demand for our services has come from sectors such as multinational manufacturing and specialist engineering, retail, property and construction, pet products, pharmaceuticals and life sciences. WELCOME TO THE SUMMER 2021 EDITION OF ALUMNI news
RUTH IRELAND PARTNER, NATIONAL HEAD OF RISK ADVISORY SERVICES t: 020 7486 5888 e: ruth.ireland@bdo.co.uk
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