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Meet our team

ICAS is home to a wide range of professionals across teaching, regulatory and head office roles. We are all part of our service to members and students, working to the highest ethical standards.

As an organisation we are open and welcoming with a focus on inclusion, diversity, and giving back to the communities we serve, actively encouraging our people to get involved through initiatives like three “giving back” days where they can become involved in activities and supporting causes that they feel close to. We have a supportive culture throughout, with a vibrant and agile approach to work and work/life balance. Find out more about Diversity at ICAS.

Our values are an important part of everything we do and they guide our actions and behaviours:


We’re team spirited Value 1 Hold people in high regard Trust and be trusted Be kind Innovate with purpose Embrace change Be responsible We’re smart working Value 2 Give our best Do the right thing Be proud to care We’re proudly committed


Find out more about ICAS.

Hear from our people

Amy, Business Services

“I joined ICAS four years ago as Partnerships Manager, and from my personal experience our culture has changed in a really positive way. I feel it’s very supportive and it’s made my job easier to do, especially since coming back from maternity leave in April. I think my team works closer and seems to gel better, and I can see even more positive changes since I came back across the whole organisation – the communication is really good. I’d like to do some office meetings and meetings with our current and prospective commercial partners, which my role usually involves, but we’re all adapting to online pretty well. If any of my friends were interested in a role here, I’d definitely say go for it.”

Amy, ICAS Foundation

“I’m the Operations and Engagement Manager for the ICAS Foundation, one of ICAS's registered charities. We support talented university students from disadvantaged communities, who are studying accounting and finance at university, by providing financial and mentoring assistance throughout their degree. The Foundation is supported by member donations and partner support, and it’s great to see our students go on to succeed in their chosen careers after university. We work closely with teams across ICAS to promote and develop our programmes, and have a supportive and dedicated Board of Trustees to help direct our work. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, ICAS has been supporting all staff members to help us keep working, and ensuring we can provide even greater support to our students during these challenging times. Working for the ICAS Foundation is such a rewarding experience."

Bruce, Chief Executive

“After a 30 year career at PWC, I was familiar with ICAS as I’d been on Council and Policy boards. Three months into “trial retirement” I was approached by ICAS to take on a policy role.  One thing led to another and I took over as Chief Executive in 2017. I came in with a new strategic direction – in particular how can we use digital to modernise/enhance our performance and presence. That came into its own when lockdown hit – we knew the possibilities, we rapidly deployed a plan, when we’ve hit hurdles it hasn’t been a surprise and we’ve dealt with it. I’m really proud of the team and what they have achieved and there is more to come. I think the role of CEO is to unblock pathways,  we have some very talented people across the organisation at all levels – we look for people who have the ability to come and share that ability with us.”

Carolyn, Customer Experience

“I joined ICAS as Director of Transformation six years ago – I’m now Executive Director of Customer Experience – coming from a background in engineering and latterly web operations. I have had a varied and exciting career, including here at ICAS. Having come from a large scale American corporate it was exciting to be able see and touch every part of ICAS and help facilitate change. We built a strong team, merging experience with new talent and developed a new way of thinking as part of our transformation programme – the collaboration and innovation across the whole organisation has been amazing. Everyone is willing to get things done. It’s empowering and challenging - I absolutely love my job!”

Chris, Learning

“I work in the Learning Centre at ICAS. I’m a tax and accountancy tutor and look after some of the tax courses as well. I qualified as a CA 20-odd years ago as an auditor and came to work for ICAS for a few years. I left and went back into practice and worked in corporate tax, first with Deloitte and then EY. I also studied for the CTA tax qualification. I was involved with running internal courses for tax training while I was with EY and then moved into accountancy education with BPP. At BPP I taught courses for the ACCA. CIMA, ATT and CIOT qualifications and gained a good understanding of each of the different qualifications. I’ve been back with ICAS for nine years. ICAS is a very warm and welcoming environment. It certainly has become a lot more collaborative over the lockdown and the move to online has worked really well, which is great. We do a lot of project work in the learning department and that often involves working with different departments as well.”

Karen, Member Engagement and Communication

“I am the Senior Events Manager at ICAS and my job is to put on a fantastic events programme for our Members and our Students. I've worked in the events industry for around 15 years, mostly in professional services in London and Edinburgh. Whilst freelancing for EY a colleague mentioned a job at ICAS in Events team based in Edinburgh -  I’ve now been at ICAS for five years.

Due to COVID we are no longer doing face-to-face events.  However – we managed to make this a positive and quickly turnaround a brilliant webinar offering for our Members. We now organise around ten webinars a month, which is incredible to think before April we had never run a webinar before.

We've totally improved how accessible our events and content are for our Members. This is due to how well we work and communicate with other colleagues at ICAS that help make these events a success. Making sure that we're communicating is essential. Communication has been key within ICAS as well as embracing this new challenging digital world we now live in.”

Nisha, Learning

“I came to ICAS from Australia, where I trained as a CA in late 2019. I’d moved out of accounting and into a training/teaching role and the opportunity here in Learning really appealed to me. So, we moved from Sydney to Edinburgh just in time for COVID, but we’re settled in here now and to be honest the onboarding has been pretty smooth. From the teaching perspective, learning how to teach and engage remotely is a new skill to learn, but everyone has helped and it’s gone well. It would be nice to have the social element so hopefully that comes back in some form post COVID. ICAS is a world renowned brand in our profession and it’s a new and innovative experience working here.”

Ruth, Data & Strategic Insights

"I came to ICAS from a Head of Function role at Tesco Bank. I was looking for a new challenge and hadn’t thought of ICAS – our offices were right beside each other but I didn’t know what ICAS did. I took a bit of persuading but went along to meet them – and was really surprised. I could see that my role as Senior Insight Manager would give me an opportunity to shape strategy and build a small team into something much bigger and be driving direction. And here I am now three years later, Head of Insights & Analytics. When I first arrived, I remember thinking that this was not really what I expected, and it’s changed even more in the last few years. It’s all been very positive and incredibly well managed. I’m surrounded by great people. If you’re looking for a role where you can have autonomy and be able to make things happen quickly, then ICAS is for you.”

Sarah, Member Engagement and Communications

“I came to ICAS about a year and a half ago as Executive Director of Member Engagement and Communications. I have a strong background in working for professional bodies – my last role was Global Director of the Profession at RICS, where I spent 20 years in various UK and global roles. Here I have a team of 24, and we deal with Member, internal and external communications, including content creation, PR, managing digital and social channels – basically all of our membership communication activity, and I also have a Data and Insight team gathering data from Members and stakeholders to support engagement. COVID arrived when I hadn’t been at ICAS that long, but it’s been a bonding experience in many ways. ICAS is a great organisation with lots of potential – a heritage brand moving with the times.”

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