Rachel Sexton
About
Former Big Four accountancy firm and law firm partner with nearly 30 years’ experience advising Tier 1, fintech and challenger banks and insurers on some of their most high-profile and high-risk challenges including fraud, financial crime compliance and assurance, regulatory enforcement and internal investigations. Due to the nature of this work, it has given me experience of reporting directly to Board-level executives and regulators. Originally trained as an external auditor, after working in audit, I moved toward a specialisation in risk consulting and related assurance.
I have experience working with clients to remediate issues identified including control failures and strengthen compliance programmes, build effective Target Operating Models, conduct risk assessments and deploy data analytics effectively.
I am a US-qualified Certified Public Accountant (CPA) (State of California) and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). I have earned post-graduate Diplomas in Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Prevention from the International Compliance Association.
I am a Trustee Director for the Fraud Advisory Panel and a Trustee for WWF UK. I also sit on the Board and am the Treasurer of the International Women’s Forum UK.
Rachel Sexton
until recently Partner and Head of UK Risk Advisory practice Ashurst & previously at EY