Pensions assurance

The occupational pension scheme market has been one of our focus sectors since the mid-1990s. It means we’ve built teams with the depth of experience that you – and your trustee boards – expect and require.

Pensions assurance is so much broader than just the statutory audit. While that will remain a compliance necessity, and a core service we take pride in delivering to the highest quality, evolving trustee governance demands have expanded the breadth of pensions assurance. We’re increasingly asked to support trustees in the provision of internal audit, cyber risk, bespoke agreed-upon procedures testing, internal control reporting, and risk management assurance services. The requirements of the Ethical Standard do mean that these wider assurance services are often not possible where we’re appointed as statutory auditor, but can be delivered as standalone services.

We firmly believe a statutory audit should add value to trustee governance, rather than just a minimum compliance tick-box service. This is achieved through our use of pension specialists deeply embedded in the sector who can provide insightful observations and benchmarking to sector best practice from their experience of peer schemes.