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Steve J Jones
Corporate Control and Risk Specialist
+2779000004
stevejajones@aol.com
Skills and experience overview
Steve is an independent specialist. Previously a senior risk and internal audit
partner in Deloitte Australia, Deloitte South Africa and EY Globally. He is a
qualified Chartered Accountant (1988) and an Economics Graduate (1985).
Twenty five years in-depth experience in risk and control with major global
organisations.
Control transformation. Working to make major organisations with
major problems stronger. Leading multi-disciplinary teams to significantly
transform control in large complex organizations and improve business and
financial performance. Experience gained initially in working through change
in immediate post-communist Eastern Europe and latterly throughout the
world assisting complex organisations facing challenges in operational and/or
financial performance and those facing significant risk events.
Leadership of global or major internal audit functions.
Successfully bringing change to organisation through an outcomes focused
approach. Leading the world’s largest Internal audit outsource and the UKs
largest global internal audit outsource.
Risk management. Helping organisations with risk resistance and
resilience. Assisting organisations through Risk Assessment, Capability
Reviews, Building Risk Frameworks, Risk and Control Monitoring and Risk
Treatment. Achieving business objectives in diverse multi-cultural
environments.
Operating globally with extensive on the ground experience in thirty countries
across North and Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa
and Australia.
Industry experience includes, Utilities, Rail, Infrastructure, Ports, Consulting
Engineering, Telco, Health, Chemicals, Defence forces and Manufacturing
Steve is also experienced in operating in tough environments. During his
career he has identified and investigated six separate cases of multi-million
dollar fraud and/or false accounting.

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Relevant experience and past performance
Senior Partner Deloitte (Australia 2010-2013 and South Africa 2013 –
2014)
Member of the Australian firms national leadership group (the “L45”), member
of the risk services executive committee. Specific achievements and activities
included: ·
• Successfully leading a control development project at Australian
Defence incorporating financial controls improvement across the armed
forces
• Leading enterprise risk management assignments and developing
thought leadership for Australian Government Departments
(Comcover, Department of Finance and Deregulation, Air Services
Australia, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, The
Commonwealth Accountability Review)
• Member of the national Deloitte Deal Review Board for public and
private sector proposals
• Author of the Deloitte Control Transformation Methodology. Roll out
and Training to 150 staff
• Author of the Deloitte Internal Audit Methodology in Australia–
“Aperture.” Roll out and training to 200 staff.
International Partner Ernst and Young Global 2005 -2010
Initially global advisory partner and then lead engagement partner of the
largest outsourced internal audit function in the world, Transnet in South
Africa. This multi business organization (50,000 employees) comprises South
Africa’s rail, port and pipeline operations. Transnet was unable to rely on its
financial processes, faced significant leakage and fraud and experienced poor
operational performance.
• This five year project linked to the organizational strategy initially
focused on improving financial processes leading to full reliance on
controls, reduced fraud across the organization, improved compliance
and in the later period an improvement in operational processes
• Significant improvement was achieved in financial reporting processes,
procurement and payments, sales and receivables, capital programs,
treasury, infrastructure and maintenance
• The project also led to significant improvement in governance
arrangements, people capability through training of over 1500
individuals, enhancing monitoring through development of advanced
techniques as well as core process improvements
• Transformation of the internal audit function through development of
risk assessment, audit methodology, competencies and capabilities
together with the implementation of tools and technology. Extending
internal audit to support improvement in business improvement through
establishing business objectives at the process level, identification of
business critical activities that support the objectives and monitoring
those activities. A focus on “what must go right” not “what can go

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Global Account Director Ernst and Young UK 1995 -2005
Global engagement coordination for the UK’s then largest internal audit
outsource for ICI, a FTSE 100 company. This full time role included
successfully setting up and managing internal audit services provided to the
client across eighty countries, successfully leading high profile projects and
fraud investigations across the world. Steve worked on the ground in over
twenty countries across the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
(2000-2005)
ERM and Internal audit services to public limited companies in the UK and
outsourcing internal audit to the public sector. One year as acting Director of
Finance to an organization with significant control and governance issues and
a 9 month secondment to improve control in an organization subject to a
funding crisis following the identification of control weaknesses. (1995-2000)
Senior Consultant and Czech Board Member Hyder PLC 1990-1995
This role migrated from internal audit of the utility and consulting engineering
business to becoming the company’s full time representative as board
member of a large quoted utility in the Czech Republic. The Czech based role
incorporated privatization, commercialization and internal control
development. Coordination of resources and expertise provided by the UK
company including asset management and infrastructure investment.
Senior Auditor, Ernst and Young UK 1988-1990 and Auditor, Deloitte
Touche Tomatsu 1985-1988
External Audit for a range of medium and large organizations, including a
major global financial services organization and a multi-national oil company.
Wales, London and Brussels.