Trust Chikwiri
Director: Governance, risk and regulatory compliance

ABOUT TRUST

Trust is a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) professional with over 20 years of business advisory experience. He currently is Head of the Governance, Risk and Compliance Department. His role includes delivering assignments across internal audit, governance, risk, control assurance, compliance, ethics management, and forensic investigation at a senior management level. He has extensive experience in engaging with senior management, Audit Committees and Board members.

Trust currently serves as a member of the Investigation Committee of the Institute of Internal Auditors South Africa. He is also an external examination and assignment marker of Internal Auditing modules at the University of South Africa.

As part of his Master of Philosophy in Internal Auditing studies, Trust published a research article on “Internal Audit’s role in embedding governance, risk and compliance” in the Southern African Journal of Accountability and Auditing Research (SAJAAR) in August 2015.

Solutions

  • Internal auditing 
  • Governance
  • Risk Management
  • Compliance Management 
  • Ethics Management
  • Fraud Risk Management, including investigations and Probity audits
  • External and Internal Quality Assurance Assessment of internal audit functions
  • Combined assurance 
  • Business process improvements 
  • Control Self-assessment

Associations

  • Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK)
  • Institute of Internal Auditors 
  • Institute of Risk Management South Africa
  • The Institute of Directors South Africa
  • Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
  • The Ethics Institute

Registrations

  • Institute of Internal Auditors 
  • Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK)

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of  Accountancy (Hons)
  • Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA)
  • Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
  • Master of Philosophy in Internal auditing (UP)
  • Certified Director  (Institute of Directors South Africa)
  • Masters in Business Administration