Internal Audit – Prudential Risk
Prudential Risk Audit is a niche within a niche – a hyper-specific position requiring an overlap of Internal Audit skills and Prudential Risk expertise. While many organisations won’t need such a granular approach to Internal Audit, some large firms do – and when that need arises, they require a true specialist they can trust. These are the exact kind of roles that we had in mind when we founded Kind Consultancy.
Kind Consultancy was contacted by the Chief Internal Auditor for the UK division of an international bank which was having difficulty identifying a Prudential Risk Audit professional – they had a requirement for an Internal Auditor with specific Prudential Risk knowledge and expertise. Due to policies set at the global level, they were unable to use external agencies for permanent hires. This was a business critical role and their own search had already gone on for several months.
With mounting pressure, they turned to Kind Consultancy – recommended by word of mouth to one of their senior UK team- asking us to find an experienced interim Prudential Risk Audit professional who could fill the position as they continued the extended search for a permanent hire. Kind Consultancy’s Agile Solutions bench included multiple senior Audit professionals, a number of whom we knew had expert-level Prudential Risk knowledge. This enabled us to very rapidly build and submit a pre-screened shortlist of people we were confident could excel in the position and knew could be available to start quickly.
The bank conducted interviews one week later and selected a candidate for the interim position. Our candidate supported them for 9 months, being repeatedly extended until they had identified and trained up an internal person to take on the role in a permanent capacity.
