Sarah Isted

Sarah is a member of the Risk Executive leadership team, and is the Risk Management Partner for the Risk line of service. In this role she supports our business to understand, monitor and manage its risks and she leads the quality strategy for our business.

During her career Sarah has held a number of roles, notably leading the PwC Financial Services Risk and Regulation (FSRR) practice, where she specialised in advising FS organisations on governance, accountability and cultural issues.

Prior to this Sarah was the Assurance People Partner, working with leadership teams to attract, retain and develop the best people to enable us to meet our business objectives.

Sarah spent 6 years as a Government and Public Sector partner including two years as the G&PS Business Unit Leader. She worked with central government and NHS clients providing external audit and non-audit services.

Sarah is an independent member of the British Cycling Risk Committee and has previously been a non-executive director and Chair of Audit Committee of Yorkshire 2019, the company responsible for organising the 2019 UCI cycling road world championships. Sarah is a keen marathoner and mountain climber, raising money for Cancer Research through her adventures.

Sarah is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant.