Internal Audit

With over 150 years of combined experience, our team delivers exceptional internal audit services tailored to your organisation’s specific needs. Serving clients across the UK from our offices in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.

150+

1st

In Internal Audit Lot 2,3,4 on the APUC Framework for Audit & Taxation Services

Why work with us?

Our mission in Internal Audit is to partner with our clients to support and enhance their operations by providing independent and objective assurance and consulting services. We strive to understand our clients’ unique needs and add value by systematically assessing and improving risk management, control, and governance processes.

Our goal is to help our clients achieve their objectives by offering practical advice, insights, assurance that protect and enhance the value of their organisation and provide cash releasing savings

What we offer

Our internal audit services are designed to help organisations across all sectors achieve their strategic goals, manage risks effectively, and enhance overall value and cost savings through our three main offerings:

Co-sourced: Offering full or partial outsourcing of internal audit functions reporting to your Head of Internal Audit, co-sourcing to enhance in-house teams, and boosting capabilities through tailored professional development.

Outsourced: Providing you with the benefit from specialised expertise, independent assessments, and tailored audit services without maintaining a full-time internal audit team in-house.

Consultancy: Comprehensive advisory services to enhance governance, risk management, and operational efficiency at your organisation.

Our Internal Audit Services

Internal Controls & Compliance

Enhancing internal control systems, conducting assurance audits, and reviewing the quality of your internal control environment against public sector quality standards and other expected sector-specific practices.

Enterprise Risk Management Consulting

We can optimise your organisational resilience and growth with our tailored enterprise risk management and assurance consultancy.

Third Party Assurance & SOC Reports

We provide third-party assurance and ensuring adherence to ISAE 3402 and other relevant standards.

Digital & Information Governance Assurance

Helping your organisation to enhance its digital resilience and cybersecurity, ensure compliance with UK GDPR for data protection, or adopt responsible AI governance with confidence.

Fraud Prevention & Detection Assurance and Investigations

We specialise in fraud prevention and detection assurance reviews, conduct forensic audit investigations, and offer expert dispute resolution services.

Performance Improvement & Business Process Optimisation

Identify operational improvements, streamline processes to boost efficiency, and collaborate on achieving cash-releasing savings.

Internal Audit FAQs

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Risk Assurance Diagnostic

How confident are you that your organisation’s risk assurance arrangements are robust, and provide the right information, at the right time, to mitigate or exploit risks?

Take 10 minutes to complete our diagnostic tool and receive an instant report that provides your whole risk assurance picture.  You will see three factors that are working well and 3 factors that may not be working quite as effectively.

Meet our Internal Audit team

David Archibald

David Archibald

Partner

I head up our public sector and internal audit team. I have over 25 years of audit and performance improvement experience, which is complimented by my experience in risk management, fraud prevention and programme management….
Stuart Inglis

Stuart Inglis

Director

I have considerable experience in managing assurance audit work across the firm’s portfolio of public sector clients including further and higher education, local government, housing association, research organisations and Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs). I have…
Steve McNaught

Steve McNaught

Senior Manager

I joined Henderson Loggie in 2004 and am a senior member of the firm’s Internal Audit Services team.  I am involved in delivering assurance and consultancy services to a diverse range of organisations across the…
Emma Tilley

Emma Tilley

Assistant Manager

I am an Assistant Manager within the Internal Audit Team. Since I joined Henderson Loggie in 2021, I have worked with a range of clients across the public, private and third sectors. My main focus…