Businesses around the world are facing extraordinary challenges. Whether it’s turmoil in financial markets, introduction of new business models, expansion or consolidation, changing global and local regulation, or the threat of litigation, businesses need a trusted advisor – someone who can help them identify and manage both the opportunities as well as the risks inherent in succeeding in hotly competitive global markets. The experienced professionals of Protiviti act as such advisors.
Protiviti is a global risk and business consulting and internal audit firm composed of specialists in risk, advisory and transaction services. We assist our clients in the areas of finance and accounting, risk and compliance, technology effectiveness, litigation, investigations and financial restructuring. Our professionals have powerful insights that are expected from the largest consulting organisations in the world. We are also proven in delivery, adding value for our clients.
Protiviti is the leading company dedicated exclusively to risk consulting and internal audit. We help our clients seize new opportunities for growth and profitability while protecting them from their risks. We work with more than 25 percent of the FORTUNE 500®. Our 2,500 professionals in 60 offices worldwide bring powerful insights and proven delivery with a customised blend of competencies to every project.
Introduction to the Protiviti UK Team
The Protiviti UK team has extensive experience in the UK marketplace which enables us to establish Protiviti as the premier risk consulting service provider in the country.
Protiviti UK is led by:
Andrew Clinton - Managing Director, UK
Andrew Clinton is a Managing Director of Protiviti in London. Andrew joined Protiviti in 2007 from a Big 4 firm where he was a partner for over ten years. Focusing on the financial services industry, Andrew has provided a wide spectrum of consulting services from strategic advice, through business governance and on to large scale change management. Recently, he has been most active in helping clients manage change that has been driven by regulatory matters, new business or operating models and/or corporate transactions. While most of his work has been in the UK, he has helped many of his clients in the U.S., Continental Europe, the Middle East and Australia. Andrew is the country market leader for the U.K.
Jonathan Wyatt - Managing Director, UK
Jonathan Wyatt is a Managing Director of Protiviti in London. Jonathan was a founding member of the Protiviti team in London and has been with Protiviti since its launch in the United Kingdom in 2004. Prior to joining Protiviti, Jonathan spent over 10 years working for Arthur Andersen and Deloitte.
Jonathan is a member of the global leadership team of our IT Consulting business and has responsibility for our Managing the Business of IT Practice. This includes our Strategy & Alignment, IT Process Improvement and IT Governance and Risk Management practices around the world. Jonathan is also the regional lead for our IT Consulting practice in Europe, with direct management responsibility for our practice in the United Kingdom.
Jonathan has worked with some of the largest companies and some of the leading emerging organisations around the world helping them both protect and enhance the value derived from their investment in information technology, as well as helping these organisations to successfully deliver major business change programmes on a global basis.
Peter Richardson – Managing Director
Peter is the Managing Director of Protiviti’s Financial Services Industry Practice and for the Business Operations Improvement Solution Line in UK. Peter joined Protiviti in 2011 from Atos Consulting where he was Managing Partner of its FSI Consulting practice. Throughout his career he has helped a wide range of financial services organisations enhance their performance as well as advising on issues management within the areas of change, customer relationship, IT and risk. Peters experience includes process improvement, organisation redesign and reskilling, behavioural risk management and platform implementation. Peter has specialised for 25 years in consulting in retail financial services including general insurance, reinsurance and London market, life and pensions and retail banking and has run major programmes across all these sectors.
Bernadine Reese - Managing Director
Bernadine joined Protiviti from a Big 4 firm where she established and led the U.K. MiFID service line and has over 14 years financial sector experience including eight years as a highly regarded regulatory specialist within the financial services industry. Bernadine has diverse advisory experience ranging from regulatory compliance to money-laundering investigations, especially in securities trading, investment management and banking. Whilst on secondment, Bernadine established risk-based compliance monitoring for the private wealth management division of a large high street bank. In assisting clients, Bernadine has provided extensive MiFID, anti-money laundering and regulatory consulting services from regional to pan-European assignments.
Sukhdev Bal - Director
Sukhdev is a Director with a focus on Internal Audit (IA). Prior to joining Protiviti Sukhdev spent 14 years in various IA roles in industry. He has worked across diverse industries including manufacturing, distribution, retail and telecommunications across an international geography. Sukhdev works with a wide range of clients helping them to deploy their IA and compliance spend effectively and efficiently. He has provided both co-sourced IA and Sarbanes Oxley compliance related services spanning project management activities, risk assessment, execution, remediation and production of final deliverables.
Gavin Benson - Director
Gavin joined Protiviti in 2007 after he was previously with a Big 4 firm for more than six years. Gavin has over 13 years experience in the Investment Management and Investment Banking sectors, focusing on Hedge Fund and Traditional Investment Managers, Investment Banks, and Outsource service providers. Within these firms, Gavin has in depth experience of both business operations and technology in a number of areas across the front, middle and back office functions.
Mark Peters - Director
Mark is a Director with a focus on IT Audit and Assurance. Mark joined Protiviti from a Big 4 firm and has over 15 years professional experience in working with clients to manage IT Risk, IT governance, project risk and IT Internal audit programmes.
Bill Byrnes - Director
Bill Byrnes is a Director in our Risk and Compliance practice in London. His focus is credit risk and his experience at Protiviti includes planning and leading lender due diligence engagements, credit risk consulting projects including evaluating lending, monitoring, and collections functions, acquisition due diligence related to bank acquisitions, assessing allowance for loan and lease loss processes, and internal audit and Sarbanes-Oxley engagements. He also has experience in public accounting as an external auditor, focused on the financial services industry, with Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young. His clients have included large bank holding companies, banking and other lending institutions, consumer and commercial finance companies, major credit card organizations, credit unions, and collection agencies. Bill earned a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and maintains his Certified Public Account status in the United States.