Tilney Smith & Williamson, the leading wealth management and professional services group, has appointed Amanda Smith as a Director in its Bristol office to add to its fast-growing risk advisory practice.

Amanda has nearly 20 years’ professional experience leading on risk, assurance, and controls transformation, and has worked across a range of clients and sectors. While based in Tilney Smith & Williamson’s Bristol office, she will hold a national role, advising clients across the UK and overseas.

Having trained and qualified within Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice, Amanda returns to professional services to help organisations understand the way that they leverage their people, third party relationships, technology, data, business processes and controls to manage their corporate and strategic risks and elevate business performance. With extensive experience of internal audit, risk, assurance and governance, Amanda has practiced delivering on all of these elements within both professional services and industry across a variety of risk advisory and Head of Internal Audit roles.

Andrew Manning, Head of Risk Advisory at Tilney Smith & Williamson commented: “Amanda’s appointment is a strategic move to further enhance Tilney Smith & Williamson’s Risk Advisory practice. Her addition deepens our capabilities at a time of unprecedented challenge, while her experience and profile is a perfect match for our firm and our clients.  Amanda’s national focus on internal audit, risk management and integrated assurance strengthens our fast-growing team and supports our ambitions to be more innovative and forward thinking for our clients.”

Amanda added: “I am really excited to be joining Tilney Smith & Williamson. Having worked in senior roles in industry for the last ten years, I am enthusiastic about re-joining professional services with a firm which is both radical and ambitious in their insight and approach. I was particularly drawn to their shared values approach and focus on people, where Tilney Smith & Williamson aims to deliver a friendly, inclusive and personalised service to its clients, and seeks to build long-term sustainable relationships, something I am particularly passionate about. I am really looking forward to working with both existing and new clients to drive real value from their business processes, help them manage organisational risk and show senior leaders and boards how they can get insightful assurance.”