About us
JC Audit Training Limited was founded by John Chesshire in 2014, with a mission to deliver excellent, value-for-money training, external quality assessments, internal audit work and consulting at fair and affordable prices.
John has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors since 2006 and holds QIAL, CRMA, CIA, CISA and SIRM qualifications and designations.
He also works closely with the Institute of Risk Management (IRM), the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) and has been a visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University (BCU).
Why choose JC Audit Training Limited?
John has over 25 years’ practical expertise, doing the very things he delivers training and advice on. He understands what works well, what doesn’t, what the key challenges are, and how to overcome them in practical, efficient, occasionally innovative, and effective ways.
He draws upon his extensive, current experience in diverse, senior and strategic internal audit and governance roles to bring training sessions to life and to add value in external quality assessments or his advisory work. This includes varied roles including time as Head of Business Improvement and Governance, Head of Internal Audit, Chief Assurance Officer, and independent Audit Committee Chair.
John shares aspects of his extensive work background, together with practical examples, exercises, case studies and realistic scenarios – all of which make training courses immediately relevant to delegates.
One of John’s greatest strengths is that he is NOT a consultant or trainer who delivers only the ‘theory’ or relies on internal audit work performed a decade (or more!) ago.
He still undertakes internal audit and risk management engagements to stay fresh, keep his hand in, and learn by doing. By way of example, in 2023 he carried out two internal audits of risk management maturity for different clients, while in 2024 John has undertaken internal audits of a key compliance management programme and cybersecurity: the human dimension, for an international credit ratings agency. His practical internal audit engagement delivery with this client will continue in 2025 with work on risk committee and risk management effectiveness, followed by a review of the methodology and model review process.
In other words, he strives to practice what he teaches.
John also provides related advisory and consulting services in internal audit, risk management, governance, control and counter fraud engagements, as well as offering coaching, mentoring and support to individuals and teams. John has written articles and has been interviewed on many occasions for the Internal Auditing and Audit and Risk periodicals, for ACCA, and has authored and edited a number of textbooks and technical guidance pieces for the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors. And others.
If you'd like to see John in action, on a subject that is very close to his heart, then here is a link to a recent virtual session he delivered in 2022 for ACCA on "Internal Audit: Courage... and calling it out as it is". With a quick registration you'll be able to view in next to no time: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3718600/86C1A837386FBB249E1AD2881E6F3BF5 Should you wish.
As you can see, John has been talking about the importance of courage for internal auditors well before our Global Internal Audit Standards recently incorporated the formal need for it. Yay.
