We are very pleased to announce that from 1 February 2023 Santo Casilli and Avant Edge Consulting formally merged with Australian Audit. Avant Edge Consulting and Australian Audit have been co-located at Level 8, 251 St Georges Terrace for the past 3 years and have enjoyed a very fruitful partnership.
The formal merger now expands Australian Audit’s existing service offerings to include internal audit, probity and risk services to all state government and local government departments and agencies. Australian Audit is now on the state government CUA contract and the WALGA audit services contract as a preferred supplier.
Santo Casilli has taken the role of Associate Director Internal Audit, Probity and Risk, alongside Australian Audit’s existing four Directors. The staff of Avant Edge Consulting have also joined Australian Audit.
Santo Casilli is a Fellow Certified Practising Accountant and has over 30 years of internal and external audit experience in providing internal audit, governance, probity and management reviews for state government and local government departments and agencies and financial audits of not-for-profit organisations. He has been a member of CPA Australia since 1987 and currently holds a “Public Practice Certificate” with CPA Australia.
Santo has also been a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors - Australia (IIA) since 1984 and has attained professional internal auditor status with the Institute and is also a Fellow of the Institute.
Santo is a qualified internal audit external quality assurance assessor and has undertaken numerous QA assessments of internal audit activities within the state government environment.
Santo Casilli has held internal audit managerial positions within both State and Commonwealth government departments prior to entering public practice in 1997.