Rickmansworth, England, United Kingdom
Peter has experience in a range of roles including as Head of Internal Audit, Director of Finance as well as a business systems auditor and consultant. Peter has wide experience in providing systems and process audit and assurance services (systems assurance and controls consultancy) for multi-national private sector clients, regulators and for public sectors organisations. Before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers he spent time in industry working for Pearson, the media multinational. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and has a BA in Economics from Manchester University. Particular areas of expertise include: Internal Audit including as Head of Internal Audit to commercial and public sector bodies: Controls design and implementation projects (including in relation to Sarbanes-Oxley); Non financial assurance project; IT audit – Financial Services;: Procurement cost reduction.
Peter's role is to lead the development of the NAO's IT audit capability and to develop the use of data analytics in support of the financial audits across the portfolio of central government organisations, so as to help achieve further efficiency in the delivery of the financial audit as a well as providing greater insight on the systems and processed operated by these organisations.
Experience has included: IT Audit and controls projects undertaken for clients in the following industries: Asset Management; Insurance; Oil Services; Manufacturing Controls design projects for insurance and manufacturing businesses Secondments as Head of Internal Audit at specialist engineering firm; Government Department; and Legal Agency Development of audit methodologies for "non financial assurance" Spend analysis projects as part of procurment cost reduction projects for global business service and manufacturing
Acted as Regional Director of Finance for three newspaper groups in the South West The major achievements in this role was setting up a regional accounting centre (through the merger of three separate accounts departments) Day to day management of the regional finance operation covering both financial reporting and credit control departments
Peter joined a newly formed Internal Audit department within Pearson. In this role he was responsible for the IT audits. In addition he was involved in a range or finance and IT related consultancy assignments for the various businesses within the group.