Iain Cummings

Appointed: 05/10/2021

Experience, skills and contributions

Iain is Chair of the Audit Committee and co-leads the firm’s workforce engagement programme with Dharmash Mistry. 
To support the firm’s strategy, he brings a wealth of experience in audit and accounting regulatory reporting, financial services, corporate governance and risk management. 

Iain is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales with over 36 years of experience working in the financial sector. He was a partner at KPMG for over 24 years working with banks and other major financial services firms in both audit and advisory roles including three years leading KPMG’s banking audit practice. His audit roles included large firms in the investment banking sector and listed firms in the wealth, asset management and insurance sectors while his advisory engagements focused on aspects of risk, regulation and internal audit. Iain also served for a number of years as chairman of the ICAEW Financial Services Faculty’s risk and regulation committee and as a member of the ICAEW’s Technical Strategy Board.

Current external appointments

Non-executive director of Skipton Building Society, and The Tradition London group of companies.