Mark Griffiths

Executive summary

Mark is a Partner in BDO’s Risk Advisory team in Sydney. He has over 28 years’ experience delivering assurance and advisory services for a wide variety of clients in both Australia and the UK, including general and private health insurers; bank and non-bank authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs); payment system providers; health and aged care providers; not-for-profits; and federal and state government departments and agencies.

He also works closely with his clients to help them identify solutions to improve their operations’ and business processes’ efficiency and effectiveness.

Prior to joining BDO, Mark was national head of a global accounting firm’s business risk practice.

Expertise

• Independent assurance engagements
• Pay/wage compliance reviews
• Legal and regulatory compliance reviews
• Operational/performance audits
• Corporate governance reviews

Experience

• Lead engagement partner delivering wage audit services for a large state government agency. Mark also led wage audit service delivery for the client with a previous employer, conducting over 500 audits over a three-year period at over 5,400 employers
• Leading the BDO team that conducted a claim-by-claim workers’ compensation file audit of a government-managed fund self-insurance scheme
• Working on behalf of the Fair Work Ombudsman to deliver several independent audits over organisations identified as having failed to meet their pay obligations under various awards and agreements
• Pay assurance reviews for a major bank and a major supermarket chain
• Providing either fully outsourced or co-sourced internal audit services for various insurers, reviewing a number of their back-office systems and processes
• Reviewing workers’ compensation systems, processes, and declarations for over 400 employers, including an energy company, an investment company, and a not-for-profit.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Business
• Advanced Diploma in Internal Audit and Management
• PRINCE2 Foundation
• Affiliate Member, CA ANZ
• Associate Member, Institute of Internal Auditors Australia
• Fellow, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK)

Professional engagements and activities

• Member, BDO Australia’s National Payroll Advisory team