Rachel Linhares

As a member of the Advisory Board, Rachel acts as a sounding board to MPP leadership team on multiple topics, including how to consider risks and performance measures to support the organisation's growth ambitions.

· Expanding relationships – Co-led KPMG UK Heads of Internal Audit Club, an initiative created in April 2021 and had circa 100 members from listed and private companies of diverse complexities and industries.

· Transforming assurance structures – Advised the Chief Risk and Audit Officer of a FTSE100 energy company on the design and implementation of its long-term internal audit vision and strategy, focusing on the alignment to the broader business strategy and on the development of the internal audit function’s brand, whilst also re-thinking the organisation’s wider assurance structure across the existing 3 lines of defence model. Also led a team advising and supporting the Internal Audit function of a FTSE30 retail company in the implementation of its vision and strategy, including re-thinking internal audit delivery processes and elevating the quality of audit products to the business.

· Enhancing risk structures – Led a £4m risk and controls transformation programme at a US-listed / FTSE100 Energy organisation, which aimed to strengthen enterprise risk management practices across the group and re-design the 1st and 2nd lines of defence operating model.

· Building differentiation - Part of a global KPMG team that delivered a Dynamic Risk Assessment (DRA) to the WBCSD - World Business Council for Sustainable Development, an organisation of which over 200 global organisations are members, to identify and assess the interconnectivity of global risks in the Food and Agriculture sectors.

· Delivering focused assurance - Rachel led co-source IA arrangements at a FTSE100 and a FTSE250 energy companies, where she built delivery teams that combined multiple levels of experience to a wide variety of fields of expertise.

· Leading integrated audits in multiple markets - Responsible for leading a range of compliance and financial audits, including Sarbanes-Oxley, in EMEA and APAC (50+ territories) and, liaising with senior stakeholders to ensure an effective enterprise risk management process, obtaining high levels of client satisfaction ratings.

· Oversighting management action plans - Responsible for leading the delivery of management action plans globally and monitoring trends in risk and control deficiencies across regions. Guided the internal audit team to ensure relevant discussions are held with action owners and timely assessment of documentation.

· Enabling international transition -Responsible for interviewing all candidates for senior associate and analyst positions, acting as facilitator to build the new global internal audit team following the transition of the function from the US to the UK.