Summary of Training Expertise
- Corporate Governance & best business practice
- Audit
- Money Laundering
- Fraud prevention, detection & investigation
- Risk Management
- Finance for non-financiers
Qualifications : MA (Hons) Modern History Christ Church, Oxford
Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Stephen qualified with Deloitte & Touche, becoming a manager and then a Group Manager in Audit. From 1990 he specialised in investigation work and transferred to Forensic Services in 1993 as a senior manager. For the next four years he worked on a variety of fraud and risk management assignments both in the UK and abroad. Stephen left Deloittes in 1997 to set up Highview Consultants, which provides specialist forensic accounting services. Since then, Highview has built up a track record of success in helping executives to find solutions to a variety of unusual business problems including accounting irregularities, corporate fraud, personnel issues and claims.
Recent examples of the training material and courses developed by Stephen are as follows:
- Designing and delivering, on behalf of the Institute of Financial Services, a three-day course for over 20 members of the Internal Audit Department of one of the largest banks in Greece. The course provided a comprehensive review of best practice and looked at in detail at modern audit approaches to a number of key risk areas from Corporate Governance to money laundering
- Designing and running a comprehensive training programme on Risk Management for one of the largest Housing Associations in the UK with over 1,500 employees.
- Designing and running a series of one-day courses running in 2001 are:
- Money Laundering Cawareness of the risks to business in the 21st century
- Corporate Fraud Camanagement perspective
- Supply ChainCan introduction for auditors
- Investigating Corporate Fraud
- Designing and delivering a series of lectures on aspects of Corporate Governance and best business practice on behalf of a number of public sector Research Councils. The audiences have ranged from senior executives to new recruits.


