Student Community - CIA Hints and tips from a global top performer
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25 September 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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Online
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Seminar
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CPD Points 1.00
Hear from Rebecca Elfes - Highest CIA score across the three exams - at this free event.
About this event
Our speaker is Rebecca Elfes who achieved the highest global score across all three parts of the CIA. Rebecca will be sharing insights, hints and tips on preparation which served her well in the CIA exams. There will also be time for a question and answer session.
- Enhanced understanding as to the risks related to operational resilience for Internal Auditors
- Key areas to include in the risk assessment of an operational resilience internal audit
- Practical understanding of some recent operational resilience incidents, including their root cause
Martin Douglas - Director, Protiviti
Martin is a Director with Protiviti and an IT Auditor with over 25 years IT Audit and Consulting experience gained across various industry sectors including Financial Services. He leads Protiviti’s IT assurance internal audit work in the UK. Prior to joining Protiviti, Martin worked at KPMG over many years working with a number of high-profile FTSE 100 institutions across multiple sectors.
Martin has led several DORA reviews and works closely with our related DORA-Operational Resilience team, who have helped a number of clients with their DORA and Operational Resilience programmes. More broadly, Martin has considerable governance, controls and project assurance experience. He specialises in working with clients to address high- profile, complex governance and data challenges, often characterised by significant legacy systems, outsourced/ shared services, and sourcing complexity.
Faye Parker - Associate Director, Protiviti
Faye has over 20 years of experience across a wide range of industry areas in operational and assurance roles across all 3LoD and is an exceptional Audit, Risk and Operational Leader with excellent people and management skills. Prior to joining Protiviti Faye’s prior three roles over a ten-year period involved running IT Audit Teams for a large UK Financial Services firm, a large UK Retailer / Wholesaler / Food Manufacturer, and large UK FinTech. Throughout her career, Faye has a wide range of experience in operational and assurance roles across all 3LoD, with a particular focus on Internal Audit. Faye’s Internal Audit specialisms are governance, technology, cyber, operations, and change delivery/transformation. Faye has been a member of the IIA for 20 years, and is a CIIA. She has also led several DORA assurance reviews.