The Brydon Report, issued today, comes in the wake of some high-profile public company collapses in the United Kingdom, including construction company Carillion, retailer BHS, and travel firm Thomas Cook, and was overseen by former London Stock Exchange chairman Sir Donald Brydon. It is titled, “Assess, Assure, and Inform: Improving Audit Quality and Effectiveness,” and runs...

Every year we celebrate Christmas with an afternoon of fun and games followed by drinks and dinner somewhere special. We always try and outdo the previous years celebrations, and I hope last Friday's party didn't disappoint. This year we took the team for an afternoon of 'crazy golf' at Junk Yard Golf in East London and it was brilliant fun! It also meant the drinks came out...

The Audit & Risk Recruitment Company (ARRC) have been retained by Motability Operations to help them recruit a Cyber Risk Manager, a newly created and critical position that will lead on the embedding of cyber risk principles and frameworks across the organisation. This opportunity has come about as Motability Operations Ltd undergoes an enterprise wide transformation in how...

Last year we were interviewed by Jo Powell from the Enterprise Risk Management magazine about the risk recruitment market. Below are the opening few paragraphs and the link to the magazine if you'd like to read the full article: RISK IN DEMAND The risk recruitment market has been expanding over the past few years but the range of skills, experience and qualifications needed ...

With one month to go before we celebrate our 5th anniversary, it seems fitting that we've just been engaged by a FTSE250 company to help them source and select a new Head of Internal Audit. What's particularly exciting about this (at least for us), is the fact the client came to us directly, preferring to use us over the CFO's usual Executive Search partner. Paying up to £20...

When we launched The Audit & Recruitment Company in Sept of 2014, we rented shared office space from The Office Group (TOG), and spent our formative 12 months working from the sofa's and chairs of the lounge room in their 19 Eastbourne Terrace building. There's nothing unusual about this and we certainly weren't the only start up in the lounge back then. What was slightly un...

At the end of Q3 we'll be celebrating our 5th anniversary, so it's very pleasing to report that the 1st month of this milestone quarter has been our BEST MONTH EVER! We've come along way since Craig and I sat around a dining table in a small, west London flat hashing out the finer details of our business plan; we've moved offices 4 times (as we've outgrown each one). We've r...

When your Friday afternoon begins with a game of Aunt Sally on a hot day in a lovely pub garden, you know you're in for a fun time. For those who don't know, Aunt Sally is a traditional English game usually played in pub gardens and fairgrounds, in which players throw sticks or battens at a model of an old woman's head. Nice! Jugs of Pims and glasses of very cold G&T's got e...

The Audit & Risk Recruitment Company had great fun at the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors Annual Dinner last night at London's Guildhall. On my table were Claire Hammond, Sally Gilmore, Mark Corfield and Ian Pope - thank you for joining us and making it such a fun night! Marcus - Director, the Audit & Risk Recruitment Company

The Audit & Risk Recruitment Company were delighted to have been given the opportunity to host April's Audit Book Club (www.thebookclubmentoringassociation.com), and hear Josephine Reynold's inspiring story. Journalist, model, TV presenter and the UK's 1st female Firefighter, Jo's lived a fascinating life and we can all learn a lot from her story, I'd highly recomend reading...