Why "not just governance"?

Not only is it because we offer so much more than typical governance services but also because, over time, we have observed governance becoming an industry in itself. Whatever happened to good governance being about enhancing the likelihood of success?

We get that for some it’s a bureaucratic burden imposed by funders and regulators. If that’s you, accept you have to have it but let us give you something that also adds value. While we won’t go so far as to say that governance is fun, we will say that enhancing your governance arrangements enhances your organisations likelihood of success while recognising and appropriately responding to risks.

We are here to assure, alert and/or advise. Our approach is to work with organisations developing, enhancing and embedding processes that are informed by best practice but are best fit for your purposes.

We do this by

Provision of internal audit services
Capacity building via support to Boards, sub committees and Executive teams
Workshop or working group facilitation
Training, information and awareness
Business continuity
Assistance with tendering / tender readiness
Development or refinement of policies and/or procedures

Our Services

Internal Audit

A professional service delivered to professional body standards.

External Quality Assessment

Auditing the Auditor.

Capacity Building

Even the best organisations need to refresh their skills to keep abreast of changes in the operating environment.

Workshop Facilitation

Sometimes it can be difficult to see the way forward when you are so close to the trees that you cannot see the wood.

Policies & Procedures

As is frequently said, the tone of an organisation is set at the top. Don’t let your tone be misunderstood.

Training

For both compliance and developmental purposes.

Business Continuity

Protection against when things go wrong.

Tendering

Reducing the burden of competing for work.

Who are we?

Our principal, Geraldine Fahy, is a highly qualified and experienced internal auditor and certified fraud examiner. Clearly having started work as a child, she was employed for 14 years in the NI Civil Service and 15 years within a professional services firm. She also served as a Non-Executive director within the NI Health Service for 13 years. This included 7 years’ membership of the audit and risk committee. Geraldine has acted as Head of Internal Audit for a range of Non-Departmental Public Bodies, State Sponsored Bodies and Charitable Bodies throughout Ireland. In addition, in her capacity as Director within a professional services firm, she also had responsibility for all those things that keep managers awake at night, staffing, finance, budgets, business development, etc. This means that she has an operational understanding of the Executive, Non-Executive and Audit role and can bring this to bear for your organisation.

A keen proponent of life-long learning, Geraldine served for a number of years on the Professional Education and Development Committee of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors. She herself has benefited from a number of learning opportunities post qualification including the Leaders for Tomorrow programme at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, various Governance related courses and also holds the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors certificate in information systems audit.