Date: 20 April 2027

Timing: 9am – 5pm

Language: English

CPE points: 7

Deadline to register: 15 April 2027

Trainer name: James Paterson

Overview 

Crucial to internal audit success is an audit team that can deliver value adding audits in an efficient manner. This requires a good understanding of technical issues, but increasingly a range of softer skills. This course delivers a range of impactful events to help any audit team deliver to a higher level. 

Who should attend? 

This course is for experienced auditors/audit managers and heads of audit, and will also be a valuable introduction to those involved in process excellence, working in IT, Health Safety & Environment and also Procurement and Project Management. 

Course description 

You will learn: 

• The fundamentals of success – benefits / functionality, cost/budget and timelines. 

• How easy it is to get things wrong and why. 

• Different project management frameworks – PMBOK, PMI, Prince II, Prince Lite, Agile. 

• The importance of role clarity all the way up to a project steering group. 

• Engaging 3rd parties/consultants and managing them. 

• Being clear about your appetite for risk (in a practical way). 

• How to obtain assurances at different stages of a project and what constitutes good assurance. 

• How to focus on what’s most important – to see the wood from the trees. 

75% will be key tools and techniques and 25% practical issues/actions / solutions of those attending. 

Trainer bio 

James Paterson, Director RiskAI 

Former CAE / Head of Internal Audit, offering in-house and open training, workshops and consulting since 2010. Author of the book Lean Auditing, looking at lean/agile ways of working in internal audit. Delivery of internal auditing courses for the IIA Belgium, IIA Bulgaria, IIA Finland, IIA Estonia, IIA France, IIA Latvia, IIA Lithuania, IIA Luxembourg, IIA Norway, IIA Sweden, IIA Switzerland, IIA Spain, IIA UK. Audit Leadership course for MIS training. Key areas of expertise: RISK ASSURANCE - Assurance Mapping & co-ordination, Auditing Culture; LEAN & AGILE INTERNAL AUDIT - Driving value add, insight and productivity in internal audit; AUDIT TEAM EFFECTIVENESS & DEVELOPMENT - Root cause analysis for internal audit / Preparing for an External Quality Review (EQA) / Internal Auditing in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech companies, high performing teams for internal audit