David Rees

• Delivering professional training courses to Wales Audit staff on handling complex audits and investigations.
• Advising audit directors on management and delivery of high profile investigations.

• Managing and carrying out high profile fraud, probity and ethics investigations.
• Heading the National Fraud Initiative across Wales.
• Developing and delivering the Wales Audit Office's counter-fraud strategy and its approach to undertaking investigative work.

Responsible for the planning and delivery of numerous high profile and sensitive fraud, governance and ethics investigations.

Provided training to public sector Boards and Audit Committees throughout the importance of good governance.

Managed the delivery of the National Fraud Initiative in Wales.

Acted as the Wales Audit Office Lead for all fraud, governance and whistleblowing related matters.

Between 2013 and 2016 I was seconded to the Welsh Government in the role of Investigations Programme Manager.

Undertaking high profile and sensitive investigations as requested by the Welsh Government's Permanent Secretary or Director of Governance. These investigations included a Ministerial Code investigation, high value frauds committed against the Welsh Government, investigations into service failures and irregularities in the financial affairs of senior officials.

Training Welsh Government staff on governance, fraud and bribery matters.

Developing an organisation wide system of assurance mapping to provide the Welsh Government's Audit and Assurance Committees that risk management arrangements were fit for putpose and operating effectively.

This post was created in advance of a merger of the Audit Commission in Wales and National Audit Office in Wales.

Responsibilities included aligning organisational systems and audit approaches, ensuring key information and knowledge was not lost, training and equipping staff for new audits, and ensuring cultural change was carefully and well managed.

Responsibility for setting up and managing the Audit Commission in Wales first audit and accounting Technical Unit.

Responsible for developing audit approaches to ensure organisational compliance with auditing standards.

Providing technical support to staff across Wales and liaising with key external stakeholders regarding changes to the accounting and audit environment.

Managing and training team members to effectively carry out their duties.

Audit Trainee: undertaking audit work across NHS and local government bodies whilst undertaking professional training.

Assistant Audit Manager: Led a small audit team undertaking audits of public sector bodies. Responsible, for planning audits, managing teams and audit reporting.