Certified Internal Auditor Specialist

We live in an increasingly volatile world where management and organizations have to identify and address new and emerging risks, as well as more traditional areas of concern, like never before. This is complex and challenging, and sometimes we are unsuccessful.

An effective and practical approach to good governance, internal control, and risk management, as well as a professional, insightful internal audit service, can all help to ensure that our organizations successfully navigate this challenging environment and the dangers it brings.

Working more efficiently, and in closer partnership with management, we can use effective agile, risk-based, and value-adding internal auditing to develop a clearer understanding of critical organizational risks. We can use agile auditing techniques to obtain clearer insight into the real, underlying root causes of governance, risk management, and control issues in a more efficient, client-focused way.

This can help ensure internal audit proposes robust solutions to improve internal control and risk management and increase management buy-in to our work, results, and actions.

This brand new, innovative masterclass will equip you with the practical skills, expertise, and confidence to better understand effective governance, internal control, and risk management, as well as help you plan and conduct your own professional, effective agile internal audit engagements to provide assurance and advice on these subjects.

It will help you be the internal auditor or the internal audit leader you want to be, and help you make a real positive difference to your organization and its vital governance, risk management, and internal control activities. It has been prepared to be of immediate benefit to both experts and those at earlier stages in their professional careers.

Define the meanings of corporate governance, internal control, and risk management for your organization and be able to recognize how well it is operating in practice. Better understand practical steps in enterprise risk management, the common challenges involved in implementing a risk management framework, and the barriers to managing risk well in reality. Appreciate best practices in leading edge internal audit and implementing a real, risk-based approach to delivering effective internal audit services. Recognize and manage common strategic and operational risks to the delivery of an effective internal audit service. Learn how to make your internal audit engagements more agile and insightful, while establishing more professional relationships with first- and second-line teams. Understand how to deliver impactful internal audit reports that are read and actioned, and communicate more successfully to deliver enhanced internal audit assurance and advisory work

This program is designed to provide a holistic overview of good governance, internal control, risk management and agile, risk based internal audit leadership, engagements and reporting. All professionals with responsibility for, or interest in, governance, internal control, risk management and internal audit will benefit by attending specifically:

Chief Audit Executives Internal Audit Managers Internal Auditors Risk Managers Compliance Officers External Auditors Internal and external consultants

Those working in other second line teams coming from:

Financial services Industry Central government Local government International organizations Third sector organizations