Not-for-profit sector services

Helping you serve your communities, we're driven to help you make a difference.

As a not-for-profit organisation, we know you're juggling numerous priorities, whether funder, donor, trustee, beneficiary, or regulator-led, so you need a firm that understands the perspective of these key influences and can help present information in a way that allows them to grasp your story.

At Crowe, we have seen the challenges and opportunities of your operating environment, and we offer pragmatic positions, making realistic assessments based on our sector experience.

Together, we work hand-in-hand to understand the unique requirements of your organisation, sharing our expertise and guidance in a way that is informed by your needs. With deep sector expertise, working with numerous charities across Ireland, we're proud to be a longstanding partner you can trust.

Internal audit and specialist assurance

Helping not-for-profit organisations meet and maximise their governance, risk and control procedures.

With constant changes in the external environment creating new pressures almost every day, internal audits, governance and other risk and assurance review are essential methods for organisations to increase efficiencies, check processes and understand their risk exposure.

Our Risk Consulting team is ideally suited to provide you with an impartial overview (through an internal audit, governance or other risk review) of the status of your organisation and will give practical tips for improvements or changes.

Our team can act as a seamless extension of your own. With national support and international reach, we provide comprehensive advice on key issues while connecting you with subject matter experts who are committed to your organisation's journey.

Our services

Fully outsourced audit

We provide fully outsourced internal audit solutions, including staffing the Head of Internal Audit role. This can be flexed according to priorities and budget to maximise the impact of the internal audit and assurance activity.

Co-sourced audit

This generally involves working in partnership with the in-house Head of Risk/Audit to deliver the programme of work. This can be flexed with Crowe leading end-to-end reviews from planning to reporting, through to the provision of Subject Matter Expertise resource to support planning and benchmarking.

Governance advice

Governance advice, including:

Board effectiveness reviews
Governance reviews
Governance transformation
Delegations and decision making

Specialist assurance work

Where needed, we can supplement your existing audit programme through a range of specialist assurance work including:

Technology risk
Cyber security
Data analytics tools and techniques
Project and programme change
Fraud and misconduct investigations
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) assessments
Risk management and risk culture review
Safeguarding
Supply chain assurance

Setting up internal audit functions for the first time

We have vast experience in designing and implementing solutions which are specifically tailored for small to medium-sized organisations who are seeking to implement internal audit for the first time, either as an outsourced service or in forming a new in-house team.

This has been created with a view to make the process as easy and efficient as possible to ensure the internal audit service has a fast start, with the structural elements established so the team can focus on delivery. There are various options for the service, including:

Crowe set up and operate the internal audit service on a fully outsourced basis
Utilising Crowe tools and templates to establish the internal audit charter, mandate and introduction to the organisation, with Crowe providing an interim service during recruitment of the in-house team
Procuring the toolkit for use by in-house resources for adaptation, including draft templates for internal audit charters, strategies, workplans and terms of reference templates for specific audits

Meet our team

Our internal audit services can help you strategically improve operations, manage risks, comply with standards, streamline processes through data analytics and benefit from valuable insights. Contact us to learn more.