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Independent Chair

ICAEW is a world leader of the accountancy and finance profession, responsible for educating, supporting and regulating over 144,000 chartered accountants internationally. It is a UK statutory regulator for audit and insolvency, also for aspects of investment business and legal services.
The new ICAEW Regulatory Board (IRB) will be responsible for overseeing the professional standards activities and statutory regulatory role of ICAEW including licensing, quality assurance, complaints handling and the professional disciplinary scheme. The IRB has a key role in upholding public trust and confidence in chartered accountants. To support this it will include a significant lay (non-accountancy) membership.
Our client now seeks to appoint the IRB’s first Chair. The successful candidate will be charged with leading the IRB’s work in ensuring that ICAEW fulfils its role as a credible and independent regulator, protecting the ultimate consumers of the services provided by ICAEW members and firms. The Chair will also interact with the ICAEW’s oversight bodies including the Financial Reporting Council, the Insolvency Service and the Legal Services Board.
Candidates for this appointment – whether lay or ICAEW members – should demonstrate an informed appreciation not only of the services provided by chartered accountants but also of the contribution that a chartered professional body makes to public life and the wider economy.
Specific attributes/competences will include:
  • outstanding senior board level experience, credibility, authority and sureness of touch;
  • commitment to professional/corporate regulation and standards of conduct;
  • personal and professional integrity;
  • a collegiate approach, supportive but with independence and critical detachment;
  • strategic perspective, with vision, insight and political astuteness; and
  • good listening and persuasive communication skills.
This is an independent appointment and is therefore not open to members of ICAEW’s main Board or Council.
To apply for this role or for further details, please contact Robin Murray Brown at Tyzack by writing to IRB@tyzackpartners.com. The closing date for applications is 17 July 2015.