Thomas is a Director in Deloitte’s Client Assets & Safeguarding Audit & Assurance team and leads Deloitte’s Safeguarding propositions as well as being a CASS specialist. Thomas has led on a number of Safeguarding audits and currently leads on Deloitte’s largest and most complex Safeguarding engagements. Thomas also leads on the audit of a ‘CASS large’ firm as well as performing a range of other client assets & safeguarding assurance, internal audit and training engagements.
Prior to joining Deloitte in 2016, Thomas gained 5 years’ experience in the stockbroking, wealth management and life assurance industries. During this time, Thomas worked for a ‘CASS Large’ stockbroker and led multiple CASS transformation projects. He also experienced first hand the insolvency of a CASS medium firm and as such has direct understanding of the challenges non-compliance with CASS and Safeguarding has upon insolvency.
He has a strong comprehension of the identification and management of compliance and regulatory risk, is particularly skilled in the engagement of stakeholders and has extensive experience in risk-control mapping, policy reviews, testing of internal controls and identification of CASS & Safeguarding breaches.