Clarence Mpofu (BSc, ACCA, MBA)

Clarence is one of TIAA’s Director – Risk and Assurance having joined the company in 2014, he rose through the ranks to his current role where he is a member of the Senior Management Team, responsible for delivering the company’s strategic objectives. Clarence is committed and highly driven with extensive experience in internal audit for nearly two decades. He is a dynamic results driven senior director with over 17 years of diversified experience in Internal Audit across both the private and public sectors.

Clarence consistently delivers to his portfolio of clients as Head of Internal Audit across different public sector organisations covering the National Health Services, the Further and Higher Education sector and Multi Academy Trust sectors. As Head of Internal Audit Clarence plays a critical role in delivering the client organisations’ strategic objectives by, giving an evidence-based opinion on all aspects of governance, risk management and internal control.

Clarence uses his extensive knowledge to provide oversight on all aspects of the service, including developing strategic and annual plans, presenting to audit committees, devising, monitoring and reviewing individual audit assignments and strengthening assurance at every client. Clarence has the experience to make the significant and recognised contributions required for maintaining and improving internal control and performance, ultimately leading to the improvement in operational performance.

Career Highlights

• Seconded to a government Non-Public Departmental Body in the South East of England with responsibility for managing the assurance function including relationship management with the Treasury Internal Auditors.
• Working with an FE College following an FE Commissioner-led structure and prospects appraisals (SPA) to review progress in the delivery of their recovery plan, to identify key risks to delivery which could impact on the delivery of their objectives.
• Leading a review of a capital project with a budget of over £30 million and identifying savings of over £68K.
• Supporting a University in reviewing their Student and Staff Wellbeing programme to assess their adequacy and whether they had been impacted on by Covid-19. This highlighted improvements which were taken on board and implemented immediately.
• Working with six NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups which were merging into one to review their merger plans and project delivery to ensure timely delivery of key milestones and deliverables. Clarence attended the monthly Ledger Merger Delivery Board meetings as a ‘critical friend’ until the project was successfully delivered.
• Overseeing the TIAA Graduate programme and mentorship for the graduates.