Profile

LeisureRisk's managing consultant, Mark Hind is an independent financial risk expert, specialising in all aspects of internal financial control, especially internal audit. Mark has over thirty years experience in the leisure, hospitality & tourism industries.

During that time Mark worked for Horizon Holidays, the Forte Hotel Group and First Leisure Corporation Plc where he was their Internal Audit Manager with responsibility for a team of Auditors and the audit coverage of eight separate trading divisions totalling over one hundred and fifty businesses. These ranged from hotels to nightclubs, from piers to theatres, restaurants to day visitor attractions, arcades to marinas and many more.

Mark is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors , and a member of the Institute of Hospitality.

LeisureRisk has been trading since 1999, offering a host of services to a wide variety of clients within the leisure, hospitality, tourism sectors. During this time they have undertaken projects for organisations such as the Royal Household, Blenheim Palace , Historic Royal Palaces , Longleat plus hotel, nightclub and restaurant chains amongst others. For some clients they provide internal audit services and undertake a program of compliance audits each year. For other clients they undertake internal financial control risk assessments and/or train management in good financial control and much more

The thirty years experience that LeisureRisk has gives an opportunity to offer a unique service to all companies in these sectors. It is particularly useful to companies who require an internal audit function but cannot justify a fulltime facility or for a company just wanting an ad hoc and independent risk assessment by an experienced person who is familiar with their industry. In addition because they have considerable expertise in stock control, they are able to additionally offer help to resolve issues such as stock shrinkage, provide advice on computerised revenue capture systems and a lot more. These services are aimed at existing businesses that have grown to a size that they need internal audit plus others that want to out-task their internal audit and also new ventures where the new owners may be lacking the relevant experience in good internal financial control.