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Data Analytics for External Auditors: Current Landscape, Challenges and Future Direction

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Schedule Description: This webinar brings together insights from ICAEW’s updated report and leading voices across the profession to explore current practice, key challenges

Sessions: 1

Session Hours: 1.50

Zoom Link: https://icaew.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xE87hwWISwi-u-JqjJSECw

CPD hours: 1:15 hrs

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This webinar brings together insights from ICAEW’s updated report and leading voices across the profession to explore current practice, key challenges and what’s next for data analytics in external audit.

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28/07/2026 10:00 - 11:00 BST	Zoom

Event information

As data analytics continues to transform the audit profession, join us to explore latest insights into its evolving role.

Key benefits

Gaining an overview of ICAEW’s updated Data Analytics for External Auditors report and an understanding of how the data analytics; landscape has evolved in audit since 2016;
Understanding how data analytics is currently being applied across firms of different sizes;
Exploring the key challenges identified by stakeholders, including practical implementation issues, data availability, and skills gaps;
Hearing perspectives from regulators, firms and methodology providers on emerging trends and challenges;
Gaining insight into the future direction of data analytics in external audit;

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CPD hours

ICAEW's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Regulations require a minimum number of hours and an ethics requirement. Attending this event could contribute up to 1hr(s) 30mins of verifiable CPD, providing you can demonstrate that the content is relevant to your role.

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This webinar is freely available to all.

ICAEW members and non-members are welcome to join. This event is organised by the Audit and Assurance Faculty. Please click here to join online.

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About the speakers

	Joanne Gregory, Senior Manager – Audit & Assurance and Compliance Publications, Mercia Jo joined Mercia in February 2020, having spent over 20 years in practice gaining valuable practical accounting and auditing experience. Jo is ACCA qualified and has mainly worked in smaller practices based in the East Midlands utilising the Mercia Methodology. Since the start of 2024, Jo has been responsible for Mercia’s publications products which mainly consist of manuals.
	Franki Hackett, Director, Head of Audit AI, Digital Audit Team, Grant Thornton Franki Hackett is Head of Audit AI at Grant Thornton UK, specialising in the intersection of audit, data science and emerging technologies. An ACA-qualified professional, she leads on the application of AI within audit and is an active voice on ethics and technology in professional services. Franki also chairs ICAEW’s Data Analytics Community Group and sits on the ICAEW Ethics Advisory Committee.
	Ramana McConnon, Head of Assurance Technology, FRC Ramana is Head of Assurance Technology at the FRC, leading the policy and technical work in respect of technology in audit and assurance, including the development of the FRC’s 2026 Generative and Agentic AI Guidance and 2025 AI in the Audit Guidance. He chairs the FRC’s Audit Technology Working group and is a member of IAASB and IESBA technology expert reference groups. Previously, he oversaw the creation of the FRC Audit & Assurance Sandbox and led FRC projects on professional judgement, ethics and sustainability assurance. Prior to working at the FRC, Ramana spent several years in audit at a Big 4 firm.
	Bani Lamba, Data Analytics & Tech Manager, ICAEW Bani is an ACA-qualified technology leader at ICAEW, specialising in AI, data analytics and cloud technologies. She leads ICAEW’s Excel and Data Analytics communities, supporting over 45,000 members, and focuses on helping firms adopt emerging technologies through practical guidance and insight.
	Ian Pay, Head of Data Anayltics and Tech, ICAEW Ian leads ICAEW’s work on data analytics, technology and digital capability, supporting both internal teams and the wider profession in understanding and adopting data-driven approaches. Ian has many years’ experience in data analytics, with strong technical expertise including SQL, Power BI and Python.

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