Build an Audit Analytics Function That Leads.
Before Regulators Ask Why Yours Doesn’t.
I help CAEs and Heads of Internal Audit in financial services build the analytics capability their board expects.
No data science hires.
No 18-month transformation projects.
No consultant who has never sat in your chair.
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Professional.
Not stock.
Your board expects analytics. Your function isn’t there yet.
And the next EQA cycle isn’t waiting.
You know this. The board talks about AI at every committee meeting. Regulators are publishing guidance on data and analytics in internal audit. Your peers at other firms are presenting automated monitoring results while your team is still sampling 25 items from a population of 50,000.
The problem isn’t effort. Your team works hard.
The problem is a gap between what your function currently produces and what it needs to produce. That gap has a deadline.
Manual Tests That Never Scale
Your team runs the same Excel-based tests every quarter. The methodology is solid. The coverage isn’t. You know what sampling misses. So does your Audit Committee.
Tools That Sit Idle
You’ve invested in technology. It remains largely unused because no one mapped it to how audit actually works. The vendor didn’t know your methodology. Nobody did.
Insights That Arrive Too Late
The findings you present to the Audit Committee summarise what happened last quarter. They don’t signal what’s building right now. The board has started to notice.
Consultants Who Hand You a Framework and Leave
Every Big 4 proposal starts with a six-month discovery phase and a £200k price tag. You get a framework document your team can’t implement. Six months later, nothing has changed.
I help audit leaders build analytics capabilities that actually get used.
Not ones that stall in committees, die in PowerPoint decks or get quietly shelved after the next EQA cycle.
No junior teams. No framework handovers. No consultant dependency.
I spent 9 years leading audit analytics at a FTSE 100 wealth and asset manager. I grew the function around me: the team, the methodology, the operating model, the board reporting framework.
I trained audit teams across 7 countries and worked with millions of records: structured data, unstructured text and NLP analytics at scale. When the Big 4 came in to assess the function, they rated it Matured.
I didn’t advise on this. I built it. There’s a difference.
What You Get
- Board-grade analytics outputs, not proof-of-concept prototypes
- Coverage at scale: thousands of records, not samples
- Insights that arrive before the Audit Committee asks why you missed something
- A team that owns the capability after I leave
How We Work
- Embedded with your team, not presenting at them
- Built around your audit methodology, not a generic framework
- 6-week sprints with working outputs at every stage
- Your team learns by doing, not by watching a presentation
Who This Is For
Heads of Internal Audit and CAEs in financial services who are tired of proof-of-concept programmes that never reach production.
Leaders who need their function to be credible: to the board, to regulators and to the next EQA assessor who walks through the door.
You keep everything.
Every session, assessment, framework and roadmap created during the engagement is yours to keep.
This is not rented thinking. It is capability you can use long after the engagement ends.
If I fail to deliver what we agreed, I refund the fee in full. No conditions. No complications.
You leave with the clarity, structure and tools to keep moving forward.
Three stages. One direction.
There’s a natural starting point. Most leaders begin with the Reality Check. Everything else follows from that conversation.
Stage 1
The Analytics Reality Check
Before we go further, I need to understand where your function stands and what’s holding it back. If the Reality Check is the right move, we’ll know by the end of this conversation.
- 15-minute intake call
- No preparation needed
- No commitment after
Stage 2
The Audit Analytics Programme
For Heads of Internal Audit ready to build the analytics capability their board expects. 6 weeks, not 18 months.
- Full maturity assessment against a proven FTSE 100 benchmark
- Bespoke analytics roadmap built around your team, tools and IT environment
- 6 weekly sessions: intensive working, not drawn-out check-ins
- Methodology frameworks refined across 9 years at a FTSE 100 wealth and asset manager
- Board and Audit Committee reporting templates, ready to deploy
- EQA preparation framework
- Direct email access throughout the engagement
Stage 3
Strategic Advisory
For CAEs who want a senior peer in their corner. Not another consultant to manage.
- Two 60-minute sessions per month
- Async access for decisions that can’t wait
- Pressure-test thinking and move faster
- Built around your specific situation
The value is in the depth of the relationship, not the number of clients.
Maximum 3 clients at any time
Questions worth answering.
That’s usually because it was tool-led, not audit-led. A vendor sells you a product. I start with your audit methodology and build analytics that fit how your team already works, not the other way round.
Most audit teams don’t. That’s the point. The programme is designed for auditors, not data scientists. We start exactly where your team is.
You have more than you think. Identifying what’s already available and what’s achievable quickly is part of the early work. In 9 years I never walked into a firm that had no usable data.
The Big 4 assessed the function I built. They rated it Matured. There’s a difference between an assessor and a builder. You get the builder, the methodology and 9 years of working knowledge behind it. Not a framework handover.
See the guarantee above. I’ve defined exactly what “work” means, what both sides commit to and what happens if we don’t get there. If it still feels like a risk, book a 15-minute discovery call. That conversation alone will tell you whether this is right for your function.
The next EQA cycle is already in motion.
The question is whether your function is ready for it.
Start with a 15-minute discovery call. We’ll establish whether the Analytics Reality Check is right for your function, and what it would look like.
Ready to move straight to the full programme?