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Internal Audit, Risk & Controls Recruitment & Advisory
We search for and recruit specialists for the work that cannot be handed to a generic recruiter. Internal audit delivery. Controls testing. SOX readiness. Risk reviews. AI governance. Whether you need advice, project delivery, interim cover or a permanent hire, we connect you with people who understand the work before they step into it.
Trusted by teams navigating complex risks.
Specialist Focus
Internal audit, risk, controls, compliance, and governance talent only.
UK & Europe network
Experienced audit, risk and governance professionals across the market.
Flexible, tailored hiring
Permanent, interim, project-based or fractional support, tailored to your needs.
20+ years of combined experience
international experience across UK & EU
2 perky boobs & cojones
We're the antidote to the Big Four consultants you've been looking for.
There is a pattern that plays out across most businesses more often than it should. A large firm wins your internal audit or controls engagement, presents a senior team at the pitch, and by week two, the people actually doing the work are capable but junior, unfamiliar with your environment, and working through a methodology designed for a business much larger than yours. The deliverables arrive. The invoice arrives. And somewhere in between, the institutional knowledge of how your controls actually work walks out the door with the consultants.
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Fushtins was built because that model has a better alternative. Our founding team has led J-SOX implementations through post-acquisition integrations and placed finance and controls professionals in businesses navigating real complexity. We build control frameworks that are practical, proportionate, and owned by your team long after we are gone. And we have seen the quiet damage done when external consultants are incentivised to keep you dependent rather than capable.
Consulting & Recruitment Services for X, Y, and Z
We build stronger businesses by getting two things right: the systems that keep you compliant and the people who keep you growing. Our two practices sit naturally together: audit, risk and internal controls consulting, and specialist finance recruitment. Whether you are building a control framework from scratch, strengthening something that has started to strain, or finding the right professionals to own it long-term, we work as a considered partner, not a revolving-door vendor.
Internal Audit & Risk Compliance
We help businesses design, implement, and maintain control frameworks that are grounded in your operating reality, built to survive audit scrutiny, and owned by your team rather than ours.
Recruitment & Executive Search
We find and place the finance and controls specialists who will genuinely move the needle, treating every candidate with the rigour and respect that reflects well on your business.
Mid-market businesses preparing for exit, integration, or audit
Listed and pre-IPO companies building audit-ready, defensible control environments
UK subsidiaries of international groups managing cross-border compliance obligations
Scaling businesses that have outgrown their processes and know the risks that brings
If you are PE-backed, you already understand the pressure. Whether you are preparing for exit, integrating an acquisition, or working through a carve-out or divestiture, your control environment needs to be sharp, well-documented, and able to withstand scrutiny without falling apart when people change roles or systems change underneath you. The businesses we work with are not looking for a large firm to manage the process for them indefinitely. They want experienced hands who have been through this exact situation, know what auditors actually look for, and will leave the business more capable than they found it.
If your business has scaled quickly, you are probably living with the gap between where your controls are and where they need to be. The processes that felt fine at 50 people are showing their cracks at 300: documentation drifts, evidence is inconsistent, ownership is unclear, and audit season becomes a scramble rather than a routine. Your CFO is stretched, your audit committee is asking harder questions, and the informal era is over. That is exactly the moment we are built for.
And if you are trying to grow your internal controls or finance function, you have probably already discovered how wide the gap is between what a generalist recruiter promises and what they genuinely understand about the role. We recruit specifically in this space, which means we know what good looks like, we represent your employer brand with care, and we do not send CVs to fill a quota. The cost of a wrong hire in a controls environment is not just financial, and we treat it accordingly.​
What Our Clients Say
We are deliberate about the work we take on, and equally deliberate about how we do it. Here is what that looks like from the other side.
Frequently Asked Questions
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