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Ross Olding

Partner

Co-founder and CFO, guiding clients through complex risk and compliance challenges with clear, practical, and strategic solutions

About Ross

Following a successful decade at a major global professional services firm, Ross became a co-founding Partner of MERC & CO in 2019.

Recognised for his agility in working across a uniquely broad domain of expertise and industry sectors, Ross supports his clients by helping them solve their most complex risk and compliance challenges. This can range from leading strategically important transformation programmes to providing more tactical interventions and advice directed at acute areas requiring remediation and improvement, with compliance risk management and control library development being notable areas of expertise.

Ross's experience of holding in-house roles as the interim risk and compliance lead for several large organisations has taught him the importance of offering clear, actionable and practical advice as an external consultant. Working across many different industries and geographies has also afforded Ross the opportunity to observe leading practices in a variety of fields, which his clients can also learn and benefit from.

Ross is also a chartered accountant and MERC & CO's CFO.

Areas of Expertise
Enterprise Risk ManagementThird Party Risk ManagementComplianceAnti-bribery and corruptionFraudInternal controlsSOX / JSOXProgramme assurance / Internal auditArtificial Intelligence