Audit & Assurance

Audit & Assurance

In an ever-changing financial landscape, organisations face more challenges than ever before. UNW’s partner-led audit and assurance service provides consistently high quality and trusted support that enables our clients to improve performance and achieve their goals.

Our client portfolio is varied and ever-expanding, including entrepreneurial and private equity backed companies as well as national and international groups. We also provide cost effective, tailored services to charitable organisations, not-for-profit entities, academies and housing associations.

UNW’s audit and assurance team includes home-grown talented graduates right through to managers and partners with vast ‘big 4’ and industry experience. Offering statutory, non-statutory, internal and grant audit services, as well as tailored and informative financial reports, our proactive approach ensures that potential issues and risks are identified quickly enabling them to be dealt with decisively. We take a collaborative approach with our client base to ensure that deadlines and expectations are met.

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OUR SUCCESS

The dental team at UNW is extremely passionate in what it does and in the past year have been particularly helpful when we were thinking of selling the dental practice. The advice we received gave us the impetus to carry this forward. It also helps that the team has built a highly respected reputation for evidence-based reporting for dental practices in the profession. We can’t thank them enough for their advice and support.

Andrew Fries

Senior Partner

Here at Durham Cathedral we are undertaking a major capital project and the advice from UNW’s VAT, tax and charity sector specialists has been invaluable and critical to the success of the project to date. I would recommend UNW to anyone needing proactive, commercial and friendly financial advice. Their team is first rate.

Durham Cathedral

“With a very strong balance sheet, we had the desire to raise finance and capital to grow the business and were introduced to Paul Kaiser and the UNW Corporate Finance team to do an option analysis, who then provided us with a wide range of options. We eventually decided to go with the Business Growth Fund (BGF) and UNW led the process to a success conclusion. We eventually decided to enter an off-market deal with Novacap, a major French company. As managers, we needed to concentrate on the day-today running of the business and UNW’s support was invaluable. It’s been a fantastic working relationship!”

Ian Stark

Chief Executive Officer

“At Age UK Northumberland, a senior finance role became vacant and after an initial search for an appropriate recruitment agency a trusted colleague recommended UNW strategic Talent service as a potential partner. UNW Strategic Talent was chosen from a number of potential agencies as the front-runner based on their expertise in sourcing suitably qualified and experienced finance professionals. Upon review, their proposal was accepted and was fully delivered within the desired timeframe. The successfully appointed candidate has been in post since January 2018 and has all the skills, knowledge and experience that we were looking for.”