Peter Horsman

Executive summary

Peter is a Risk Advisory Services Partner with BDO in Adelaide. He has a collaborative and pragmatic working style and is focused on delivering high-quality outcomes for clients.

Peter specialises in Internal Audit, risk management, compliance management, organisational resilience, governance, risk and compliance software, and business process improvement.

He has experience in utilities and power, oil and gas, and across several State Government portfolios.

With more than 14 years of experience, Peter effectively communicates with key stakeholders throughout the engagement lifecycle.

Expertise

• All types of internal audits, including those with operational, financial, and strategic focus
• Risk assessments at the operational, project and strategic levels
• Compliance management frameworks and regulatory compliance
• Organisational resilience frameworks and associated artifacts
• Governance, risk and compliance software design and implementations
• Business process improvement.

Experience

Internal Audits

• Led delivery of co-sourced and outsourced internal audit services for a large oil and gas company, an electricity transmission company, multiple government health agencies, several higher education/tertiary education organisations.

Water utilities

• Led a maturity assessment across governance, compliance, risk, and business resilience, and developed an improvement roadmap with actionable recommendations.

Power utilities

• Led a risk transformation project to enhance strategic risk management, this included redefining the risk profile, performing bowtie analysis, identifying critical controls, and establishing key risk and performance indicators.

Oil & gas

• Seconded as the principal risk adviser for 12-months. Role included undertaking maturing risk management through executive-level bowtie analysis, identifying critical controls, and linking them to the management system.
• Led the local delivery of GRC software implementation, initially focusing on compliance management, and provided ongoing advice to optimise business practices in assurance and risk management.
• Led engagements to help the organisation manage regulatory obligations by identifying and interpreting requirements, assessing current processes and controls, identifying risk exposures, and providing recommendations for compliance.

Education

• Led engagements to enhance organisational resilience, including disaster scenario facilitation, business continuity, emergency management, and drafted the resilience framework.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting
• Member, CA ANZ