John Chesshire founded JC Audit Training Limited in 2014, with a mission to deliver excellent training, external quality assessments, internal audit work and advisory services at fair and affordable prices.

John has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors since 2006 and holds QIAL, CRMA, CIA, CISA and SIRM qualifications and designations.

He also works occasionally with the Institute of Risk Management (IRM), the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and overseas branches of ISACA.  He was a visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University (BCU) for several years.

Why choose JC Audit Training Limited?

John has over 26 years’ practical expertise, doing the very things he delivers training and advice on.

He understands what works well, what doesn’t, what the key challenges are, and how to overcome them in practical, efficient, occasionally innovative and always effective ways.

He draws upon his extensive, current experience in diverse, senior and strategic internal audit and governance roles to bring his work to life.

This includes varied roles as Head of Business Improvement and Governance, Head of Internal Audit, Chief Assurance Officer and independent Audit Committee Member (and recent Chair).

John draws upon aspects of his extensive work experience, practical examples, exercises, case studies and realistic scenarios to make training courses immediately relevant to delegates.

One of John’s greatest strengths is that he is NOT a consultant or trainer who only delivers the ‘theory’, relies on limited internal audit work performed a lifetime ago, or draws on activity performed by - or stories from - other clients.

He still undertakes internal audit and risk management engagements to stay fresh, keep his hand in, and continue to learn by doing. He also still LOVES delivering internal audit engagements.

For example, in 2023 John carried out internal audits of risk management maturity for two different clients, while in 2024 he undertook internal audits of a key compliance management programme and cybersecurity: the human dimension, for an international credit ratings agency.

John's internal audit engagement delivery with this client has continued, with work in 2025 on risk management effectiveness and a review of the organisation's methodology and model review process; as well as more recently, regulatory reporting and a forthcoming audit of Staff Personal Account Dealing in 2026.  He's also delivering another review of risk management maturity for a higher education client this year too. 

Busy times!

In other words, John strives to continue to practise what he teaches. 

John also provides related advisory services in internal audit, risk management, governance, control and counter-fraud engagements, as well as offering coaching, mentoring and support to individuals and teams.

John has written articles and has been interviewed on many occasions for the Internal Auditing and Audit and Risk periodicals and for ACCA.

He has also authored and edited a number of textbooks and technical guidance pieces for the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors. And others.

If you'd like to see John in action, on a subject that is very close to his heart, then here is a link to a virtual session he delivered in 2022 for ACCA on "Internal Audit: Courage... and calling it out as it is". With a quick registration you'll be able to view in next to no time:

https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3718600/86C1A837386FBB249E1AD2881E6F3BF5  Should you wish.

As you can see, John has been talking about the importance of courage for internal auditors well before our Global Internal Audit Standards mandated it.

Yay.