Consultancy Skills for Auditors

This Consultancy Skills for Auditors training course is crafted to empower auditors in honing consulting skills that elevate the value of internal audits. Participants will acquire the expertise to engage in consultancy endeavors, leveraging internal audit knowledge on risk management, controls, and governance processes to enrich the overall audit opinion.

Through highly interactive sessions, this course integrates assurance and consulting skills, equipping attendees to master crucial consulting competencies and tailor consulting outcomes to enhance both audit environments and organizational operations.

Learning is facilitated through group exercises, case studies, and tailored activities relevant to participants' organizational contexts.

Key features of this training course include:

• Exploration of challenges faced by auditors and organizations in supporting management
• Acquisition of essential skills to balance the roles of internal auditor and consultant effectively
• Guidance on best practices in the consultancy role of internal audit
• Development of knowledge and skills to deliver tangible benefits for the organization

This training course will cover the important skills that will help you to become an effective consultant and will provide auditors with an understanding of the necessary consulting skills to enhance internal audit function.

At the end of this training course, you will be able to:

• Understand the consultant responsibilities & services and how to be creative and to demonstrate how it can add value.
• Discover skills to provide consultancy services as well as assurance services and learn how to use core skills to both an auditor and a consultant
• Enhance skills in internal auditing and risk management, governance and compliance (GRC Model)
• Learn how to develop a gap analysis in identifying where you already have a strong skills base and where you might need to strengthen them
• Use some of the tools and techniques commonly used by consultants in these areas
• Identify and practice facilitation skills and issues in your own environment

This training course is open to all and will be useful to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit the following individuals:

• Auditors / Auditing Managers
• Accounting Executives / Managers
• Financial Reporting Managers
• Financial Executives / Managers / Controllers
• Budgeting Officers / Executives / Managers
• Business / Investment Analysts & Managers
• Regulatory Compliance Officers
• Commercial Analysts, Executives & Managers