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What sets Craig apart?
Craig is an experienced auditor and business advisor delivering high quality services to businesses across a broad range of sectors. He is pro-active with his clients and passionate about delivering robust, high-quality services, whilst also building trusted relationships.
He has strong technical accounting and reporting skills which he has developed through working with a substantial number of corporate entities, ranging from listed to owner managed businesses.
As well as his considerable external audit experience, he has overseen many risk assurance contracts for clients in various sectors, which include internal audit, risk management, governance, internal control frameworks and business resilience.
Craig enjoys developing trusted business relationships with his clients, proactively highlighting emerging issues. He actively ensures that they receive the best of being a Bishop Fleming client, by introducing them to the relevant specialists within the firm to support them in meeting their business objectives.
Bishop Fleming is registered as a local auditor with the ICAEW and Craig is one of our accredited Key Audit Partners, which enables him to perform public sector audits for local authorities and NHS organisations in England. Craig has over 15 years of local audit experience, from his time working at a Big 4 firm.
Craig is the contract partner of Bishop Fleming's participation in the Public Sector Audit Appointment (PSAA) Scheme.
Outside of Bishop Fleming, Craig is the Vice-Chair of a housing association.
Craig's service expertise
Audit
- Strong track record of delivering robust audits working with a range of corporate sectors clients from owner-managed businesses to subsidiaries of UK and US listed groups
- Experienced in facilitating a smooth transition for new clients
- In depth understanding of the health, charity and housing sectors
- Overseeing internal audits in FE colleges, local authorities, housing associations and NHS Trusts. Reviewing their systems and providing practical recommendations to improve controls
- Working alongside in-house internal audit teams
- Providing wider risk assurance service including advising boards on risk management, governance and internal control
Craig's sector expertise
Charities
- Auditing of and advising charities on their risk management, governance and internal controls
Education
- Auditing of and advising academies, colleges and universities on their risk management, governance and internal controls
Healthcare
- Worked with clients across the whole care pathway from primary care to hospitals. Has also presented at HFMA events on financial management in the health sector
