Ginny Griffin

Executive summary

Ginny Griffin is a Partner in the Risk Advisory Services team with BDO in Brisbane. With more than 20 years’ experience, Ginny brings a strong pragmatic approach to working with her clients, balancing what is required with what is possible. She focuses on understanding her clients' needs, business and operating environment, ensuring her work is tailored to her clients to achieve the greatest impact.

Ginny’s core focus is on aligning the internal audit function with the organisation's strategic direction and the needs of its key stakeholders, including the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Board members, to deliver the greatest value and insights. She also focuses on risk management, providing tailored and practical solutions to identify and mitigate strategic and operational risks.

Ginny deeply understands the government sector, focusing on the Queensland State Government and central agencies, including government owned corporations and statutory bodies. She assists her clients in enhancing stakeholder confidence through improved governance, risk and controls practices, and operational certainty by identifying areas for improvement.

Expertise

• Strategic alignment of the internal audit function to the organisation’s strategy and objectives
• Establishing internal audit functions
• Improving or evaluating the internal audit function to deliver more value to the CEO and Board
• Developing or resetting an organisation’s strategic risks
• Operational risk management
• Process and controls design
• Practical implementation of risk management activities and reporting.

Experience

• State government departments: Advising on matters, ranging from risk and internal audit to program assurance. Leading outsourced risk management services to provide immediate outcomes in risk identification, risk advisory services and facilitating strategic risk workshops
• Risk management: Establishing and embedding strategic programs to mature risk management activities, facilitating the articulation of strategic risk, response and reporting in a meaningful way for stakeholders
• Governance and stakeholder reporting: Navigating political programs with a short notice period, requiring a rapid response. Ginny mobilises and implements robust governance and oversight by capturing complex issues and solutions, and reporting these concisely and meaningfully for Boards and executives
• Project Management Office (PMO) establishment: Assistance in identifying and defining scope, prioritisation, escalation, and reporting to provide a consistent and standardised approach across projects, resulting in the enablement of executive decision-making and oversight
• Business improvement programs: Leading internal audit process improvement and risk management activities. This includes the review and oversight of the program setup, monitoring, evaluation, governance and oversight of fund allocation and grants establishment, and reporting to executives on the activity and outcomes achieved
• Three Lines of Defence (3LOD): Integrating the 3LOD model to ensure all levels of assurance are conveyed and understood, enabling the prioritisation and alignment to risk of the assurance activities across the organisation.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
• Professional Member, Institute of Internal Auditors.