Elizabeth Young Partner - Risk Consulting

Elizabeth Young is a Partner in Risk Consulting, supporting clients through internal audit, governance, and strategic risk management. She works alongside leadership teams to offer assurance that’s straightforward, useful, and aligned to their goals.

Experience

Elizabeth Young is a Risk Consulting Partner with 20 years of experience helping organisations make confident decisions in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment. She specialises in internal audit, governance, and strategic risk management, supporting boards and senior leaders with assurance that is clear, actionable, and commercially focused.

Drawing on insight from her non‑executive roles in the third sector and financial services, Elizabeth brings a grounded understanding of the real pressures facing leadership teams. She has delivered assurance programmes that have uncovered meaningful cost‑saving opportunities, strengthened governance across multi‑agency partnerships, and guided organisations through emerging risks such as climate adaptation and strategic transformation.

Based in Scotland, Elizabeth works with clients regionally and across the UK. She is committed to building strong, collaborative relationships, developing high‑performing teams, and helping organisations enhance their resilience and long‑term performance.

Work highlights

Across her 20‑year career in risk assurance, Elizabeth has led major internal audit, governance and risk transformation programmes for organisations across financial services, real estate and the wider private and public sectors. She has delivered internal audit programmes that strengthened control environments, enhanced regulatory alignment, and identified meaningful efficiency opportunities for leadership teams. She is a recognised specialist in public sector assurance.

Elizabeth has also driven quality and governance improvements across assurance practices, embedding high professional standards and supporting continuous improvement in service delivery. Earlier in her career, she played a key role in implementing a risk‑based audit framework across a large regulated organisation, enhancing compliance with industry regulatory standards, and contributing to the successful rollout of assurance programmes across multiple geographies.

Her professional impact has been recognised through several early‑career accolades celebrating leadership, innovation, and contribution to the wider profession.