Martin Richardson, Director Audit Services, Audit New Zealand |
Asset Management and long-term planning
Procurement and contract management
Martin is a Chartered Surveyor by profession, and he spent 10 years working on mapping and civil engineering projects across the UK. Martin is the main author of the Asset Management and long-term planning report. |
Andrea Reeves, Assistant Auditor-General, Local Government, the Office of the Auditor-General |
Looking forward to the 2018-28 long-term plans
Andrea heads the Office's Local Government group, which is responsible for managing the Office's relationships with the local government, environment, and energy sectors, and Parliament's Local Government and Environment Committee. |
Stephen Walker, Executive Director, Audit New Zealand |
Welcome
Having begun his career at Audit New Zealand Steve returned to take up his role as Executive Director. Prior to that Steve was based in New York as the Director of Operations for the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC).
Steve is currently Vice President of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. |
Melanie Webb, Assistant Auditor-General, Legal, the Office of the Auditor-General |
Conflicts of interest in the public sector
Melanie joined the Office of the Auditor-General in October 2015. She heads the Office’s Legal Group, which provides legal advice and support across all aspects of the work of the Office of the Auditor-General and Audit New Zealand. Melanie has held various policy and legal roles within the New Zealand public sector since 1994. |
Miles Workman,
Analyst at the Treasury |
Economic outlook
Miles is an Analyst in the Forecasting team at Treasury, where he contributes to the economic and tax forecasts presented in Treasury’s Economic and Fiscal Updates. He gave us an economic and budget update. |
Paul Helm, Head of Accounting, The Treasury |
Strategic financial management and the finance development programme
Paul has held his current role – Head of Government Finance Profession and Chief Government Accountant – since October 2014. He is focused on skills development in strategic financial management across the public service and helping finance teams achieve their potential.
He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand, CPA Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. |
Robert Cox, Head of Accounting and Audit Director, Audit New Zealand |
Financial reporting update
Robert leads our technical accounting team, providing support to audit teams across the full range of public sector audits. |
| Paul O’Neil, General Counsel, Serious Fraud Office |
Fraud – common types of fraud, bribery and corruption, detection and prevention
Paul O'Neil joined the Serious Fraud Office as General Counsel in December 2016. Prior to this appointment, he was the Head of Enforcement at the Financial Markets Authority responsible for overseeing conduct of the FMA's civil and criminal proceedings. |
Alan Clifford, Director, Information Systems Audit and Assurance, Audit New Zealand |
Cyber security
Alan leads our national Information Systems Audit and Assurance team. He provides a range of information technology audit and consultancy services including: project assurance; information technology operational effectiveness reviews; benchmarking exercises; support to internal audit functions; and risk management reviews. He has over 25 years of information technology and consultancy experience. |
