Ernst & Young UK's Business Risk group - Ernst & Young - United Kingdom

Risks across organisations have increased exponentially based on the complexity of business today – strategic, operational, compliance and financial risks are all areas that need to be identified and managed effectively and efficiently.

Ernst & Young helps companies and businesses across all industries to deal with a broad range of business and finance issues. We are committed to pursuing the highest levels of integrity, quality and professionalism and on connecting our people’s talents to create the best teams for our clients. We can help embed a sustainable approach to consistently assess, improve and monitor the way companies manage their evolving risk profile in the most cost-effective way.

Our clients ask us to help them with two things: “Keep us out of trouble” and “Make our business better”. Our risk services teams provide independent risk, control, assurance and improvement advice and resources to help our clients balance their need for efficiency and integrated assurance and improvement.

We have 4 key solutions which we integrate to help us deliver against specific client needs:

• Internal Audit Services
• Programme Advisory Services
• Control Advisory Services
• Corporate Responsibility Services

Latest reports:

The future of risk – Protecting and enabling performance
This new survey of more than 500 global companies provides a snapshot of the current risk environment at a time when mixed reports are filtering through about the medium- and long-term economic outlook. It examines companies’ attitudes towards risk management and how recent global events have affected management approaches to risk. This survey identifies leading practices, common areas for improvement and what companies need to do to define a path forward to a performance enhancing risk future state. Download The future of risk  359K, August 2009.

Internal audit summit

Ernst & Young hosted the Internal audit summit to discuss and debate some of the key market-leading themes in internal audit. We covered six key topics areas. 

• The global economic downturn
• Tools and technologies
• Making the best use of resource: integrated/aligned assurance
• Dealing with the risks that really matter: how internal audit keeps pace
• Emerging trends in fraud
• Third party risk: how internal audit can help

Download the summary document  257K, January 2009.

Escalating the role of internal audit
Internal auditors face new opportunities and a growing skills gap as management increasingly looks to them for business improvement recommendations and coverage of a broader range of strategic and operational risks. Escalating the role of internal audit: Ernst & Young’s 2008 Global Internal Audit Survey examines the current and evolving state of the internal audit function and how chief audit executives are meeting the heightened expectations of stakeholders.