MOPAC/MPS Audit Panel

Jayne is a very experienced chair and non-executive director, with a background in organisational change management, audit and assurance. A Chartered Accountant by profession, Jayne is an experienced audit and risk committee chair, and is passionate about developing risk management and assurance to deliver an organisation’s strategic objectives.

Jayne is currently a non-executive director with Scottish Government, the Coal Authority and the NHS Counter Fraud Authority. She is also Chair of the Private Healthcare Information Network, a government mandated organisation providing information on the quality and cost of private healthcare. She has held many previous board appointments including Ofgem, the Marine Management Organisation and the Professional Standards Authority. She was also previously a panel member with the Competition and Markets Authority. 

Jayne has a long-standing involvement in ensuring consumer interests drive organisational decision making. She has previously been a member of the Consumer Challenge Board for Heathrow Airport and the Consumer Engagement Group for Electricity North West Limited.

Sam is the Director of Conduct, Equity and Justice at the Ministry of Defence (MOD). She leads on Diversity and Inclusion, the transformation of the Service Justice and Service Complaints systems and the implementation of recommendations from various reviews related to Armed Forces justice, culture and unacceptable behaviours. She is also the Defence LGBT+ Champion.

Sam was previously the MOD Director of Assurance, leading the delivery of risk, assurance, counter-fraud, anti-corruption and cost management activities across Defence. Prior to January 2019, Sam was MOD Head of Fraud Defence, leading on the prevention, detection and investigation of fraud and corruption, regularly liaising with civilian and military police, NATO and international allies.

Sam is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW) and an ICAEW Accredited Forensic Accountant.

Sam is the MOD Co-Chair for the Women in Defence Charter, which seeks to improve gender balance across the defence sector. In May 2023, Sam was appointed to the External Oversight Body of the [Irish] Defence Forces, as part of the response to the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces.

Jon Hayes is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years of professional experience. He trained with the Audit Commission and undertook roles across all of the Commission's responsibilities for local government, police and the NHS, including as a statutory appointed auditor. From 2012 to 2015 he was a member of the Commission's executive management team.

Jon was the Chief Officer of Public Sector Audit Appointments Ltd from 2015 until the end of 2018. In that time the company secured a long-term role supporting local government and police bodies in the new local audit regime and delivered the transitional statutory audit functions it was established to complete.

Jon is a member of the Financial Reporting Council's advisory panel and also sits on the audit and risk committees of the General Medical Council, the General Council of the Bar, St John's Ambulance and the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner. He is the company secretary of a heritage charity in a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Following a first-class degree in Astrophysics from Cambridge, Ros Parker became both a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) and a qualified CIPD professional, and currently has 20 years of professional experience.

She initially trained with KMPG before moving into the charity sector where she undertook increasingly senior roles as a member of Executive Leadership Teams, including Finance and Resources Director roles at Amnesty International UK and the Royal National Institute of Blind People.

She now works as the Chief Operating Officer at East Sussex County Council where she is responsible for a team of over 800 people covering a variety of disciplines including finance, HR, audit, procurement, property, climate change and IT/digital.

Ros has also held non-executive roles as the Board Treasurer and Chair of the Audit and Risk committee at Stonewall and the British Institute of Human Rights.

Marta Phillips is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. She has over 40 years of finance experience and significant experience of the public sector, having been a civil servant since1993, and a senior civil servant from 2000 until 2013. Her last appointment was as the Chief Executive of the Pensions Advisory Service (2010 - 2013) having previously held the positions of Director of Compliance, and Director of Compliance and Resources at the National Lottery Commission from 1999 to 2010. Prior to this she was Head of Finance, European Social Fund at the Department for Education and Skills from 1993 to 1999.

Over recent years Marta Phillips has developed a portfolio career and brings nonexecutive board experience to a number of organisations, including the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster and the London Fire Brigade.  More recently she chairs the London Fire Brigade’s Audit Committee and that of the Non-Ministerial Department for the State of Jersey.  She is also a Council Member for the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and a Court Member of Heriot Watt University.

Marta read BA (Hons) Economics and Accounting and MSc Computing Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.  She was awarded an OBE in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List.