Specialist audit and assurance services

Businesses operating in highly regulated or specialist industries must often meet unique reporting procedures and requirements.

Through our specialist audit and assurance services, we offer in-depth knowledge and technical expertise across a broad range of sectors. Where we excel is in our highly personal approach, working closely with our clients to provide advice on how best to deal with the specific financial and regulatory challenges facing you.

Lubbock Fine works closely with a variety of clients across the financial services landscape. We provide expertise that will support you with your regulatory compliance, including regulatory audits, handling client money, protecting client assets and preparing FCA applications, through to completing your regulatory returns.

Our expertise is not only compliant, we strive to understand your business and provide creative solutions and recommendations to develop new ideas in a competitive sector. Stringent regulations in this arena make it vital that you partner with bright thinkers, and we excel in achieving growth for our clients whilst ensuring we give you streamlined, compliant advice.

Naturally we keep clients updated on how changes in the regulations will affect their businesses but also work closely to advise on how best to deal with the financial and regulatory challenges that clients may face in this increasingly complex sector.

We have specialist experience in conducting grant audits, expenditure verification of grant funds and certification of financial statements (CFS). Our expertise includes audits on EU grants such as those under the H2020, FP7, Interreg and LIFE funding programmes, in addition to UK grants under the Innovate UK funding programme.

Despite tight reporting deadlines, we will ensure you meet compliance requirements. We perform assignments globally and can support delivery partnering with our international network.

Our team will take you through each of the procedures and capture all relevant information needed for your report.

We assist solicitors in their compliance with the SRA Client money rules, including carrying out the annual review of the firm's safeguarding of client money and preparing our Accountant's Report.

We also provide ongoing advice and assistance in helping our clients in putting in place the systems and controls they require to comply with the technical requirements under the SRA Accounts Rules 2019 and ensuring that the client money they hold is appropriately looked after .