A range of open training courses are delivered through the IIA in Europe.
In-house, tailored training, and webinars, ranging from 2 hours to 6 hours, are also available on request, by clicking the following link.
Webinars
James has been working in more virtual ways with taster webinars, and also talking to friends and colleagues on topics that may be interesting. Find out more here.
James also offers CPD webinars:
Risk Assurance
Open and in-house
- Assurance Mapping (various IIA)
- Developing the Annual Audit Plan (MIS)
- Risk Assurance & Governance Basics for Senior Executives & Board members
Bespoke in-house
- Assurance Frameworks (giving overall opinions for Governance statements)
- Co-ordinating the work of Risk, Compliance and Audit
- Understanding Accountability Mapping
Lean & Agile Auditing
Open and in-house
- Lean & Agile Auditing (various IIA)
- Assignment Work Planning and Risk Control Matrices (IIA Switzerland)
- Effective Scoping of Internal Audit Assignments (IIA Sweden)
Bespoke in-house
- Lean Finance
- Process improvement – a lean perspective
Leadership & Political Savvy
Open and in-house
- Head of Audit Induction Master Class (IIA UK)
- Influencing Skills & Political Savvy Master Classes (Various IIA)
- Successful Strategies for Heads of Internal Audit
- Successful Strategies for Audit Managers
- Leadership for Heads of Audit (MIS)
Bespoke in-house
- Stakeholder Management Skills & Political Savvy for Experienced Internal Auditors
- Leading Audit in Tough Times
Internal Audit Effectiveness
External
- Strategic Thinking for Internal Auditors (with IIA Switzerland & IIA Belgium)
- Best Practices in Internal Audit (with IIA Sweden)
- Practical Approaches to New Ways of Internal Auditing
- Preparing for an External Quality Assessment (EQA)
Bespoke in-house
- Building a High Performing Audit Team
- Preparing for an External Quality Review (EQA/QAR)
- Risk Based Auditing
- Reporting Writing
- Interview Techniques for Internal Auditors
- Negotiation Skills for Internal Auditors
- Action Learning Techniques for Internal Audit
Root Cause Analysis & Culture
Open and in-house
- Auditing Culture (IIA UK, Sweden, Belgium, Norway)
- Root Cause Analysis (IIA UK, Sweden, Belgium, Norway and Mauritius)
- Risk Based Internal Auditing (IIA Bulgaria)
- Audit Best Practices & the IIA (Professional Practices Framework) PPF 2017 (IIA Latvia and IIA Norway)
- Auditing Governance and Strategic Risks (IIA Switzerland)
Bespoke in-house
- Auditing in the Pharmaceuticals Industry
- Strategy and Strategic Risks – How to manage and assure these
- Managing Audit Independence and Objectivity
Speaking Engagements
Throughout the year James speaks at various events, which have included the IIA International Conference, IIA Internal Audit Leaders’ Conference and the Retail Audit Forum.
Find out more here.
Contact
Contact and appointments:
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T: +44 (0)7802 868914
Email
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Risk Assurance Testimonials - Services
Lean Auditing Testimonials - Services
We invited James to look out our ways of working from a LEAN perspective, and help us focus on those key areas where we could make real improvement, both for us, as an audit team, and for our customers. James worked closely with one of our sub teams, getting to the root causes of our concerns, and then facilitated a workshop day for the whole partnership where we explored the issues and came up with agreed ways forward. James was energetic and engaging; he clearly knows what gets in the way of organisations being lean, and helped us develop an action plan that we know will deliver results.
Coaching Testimonials - Services
James has been excellent in terms of helping me to focus on key themes and messaging specific to my organisation, whilst ensuring that the general assurance strategy we have drawn up reflects best practice. I have enjoyed our sessions together, and I think a large part of that is the way James has not imposed a standard one size fits all approach, rather working with me to really understand our business and drawing on my knowledge to shape a suitable risk, audit and assurance strategy. This has all been done within a fairly demanding timeframe so I have appreciated James’ flexibility in working around my day to day business demands. Consequently I feel the output is very much tailored to our business, and represents an efficient and effective investment of time and money.
I look forward to working with James in the future and would certainly recommend him for any work of this nature given the experience that I have had.
Audit Team Testimonials - Services
James brought very strong project management skills and a clarity of insight to the project. He was extremely effective at simply getting things done and maintained his sense of humour during what was a challenging time for all of us. I am pleased to say that we met all the deadlines and the department is now functioning as it should.
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