Paul’s strategic hire brings over 18 years of experience working with large corporates and owner managed businesses, with particular focus on helping UK and international businesses to understand, manage and govern risk to create value. He joins RSM UK from a prominent role in industry at TalkTalk where he led the audit and risk team. Prior to that he has worked at MBNA, JTI and PwC leading on internal audits.

Paul has worked across many industries, specialising in TMT, financial services and consumer, delivering strategic advice to allow each organisation to succeed through effective management of financial risk and compliance.

At RSM, Paul will focus on risk assurance and internal control advisory in the corporate space, building upon the firm’s footprint in this area and further enhancing the team. north

Paul Bennett, director at RSM UK, said: “It’s an exciting time to join RSM. We are investing to build capability across the team to enhance our consulting offering. I’m looking forward to working with clients to better understand potential risks and add real value to a growing portfolio of large corporates and fast-growing owner managed businesses.”

Alex Tait, national head of risk and governance at RSM UK, said: “Paul is a prominent adviser and brings both practice and industry expertise to his new role – further strengthening our risk and governance solution.”