Apply to serve on an ICAEW regulatory or disciplinary committee

Thank you for your interest in applying to serve on either a regulatory or disciplinary committee. Download our candidate information pack for further information regarding the role of each committee and the recruitment selection process.

Please be aware that roles on regulatory and disciplinary committees are remunerated. More information is included in the section: Terms of service, remuneration and background

Current vacancies

• Lay applicants: please download and complete an application form in the table below, depending on the type of committee you prefer.
• Accountants/technical applicants: please email a CV and personal statement (no more than one, A4-sized page) for the role in which you’re interested, addressing how you meet the essential requirements.

• Essential requirements for accountants/technical members

For applying as an accountant/technical applicant or for general enquiries relating to committee recruitment, email CommitteeRecruitment@icaew.com

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to join a committee even when application deadlines have passed. We will happily add your name to our list of individuals interested in serving, and we will be in touch when the next vacancies become available.

Access our candidate information pack for further information regarding the role of each committee and the recruitment selection process. For general queries and expressions of interest, email CommitteeRecruitment@icaew.com

• A lay member is an individual who is not a member, affiliate or employee of ICAEW. Accountants who are not ICAEW members are not eligible to apply as lay members. To enhance public confidence in the regulatory process, further relevant restrictions may be appropriate for each committee.
• An accountant member is an individual who is a member or affiliate of ICAEW who is not an employee of ICAEW.
• A technical applicant is a legally qualified individual who may sit on the Legal Services Committee alongside, or in lieu of, an accountant member.

• It should be noted that all applicants should have a clean criminal, regulatory and/or disciplinary history.
• All applicants must be resident in the UK and have permission to live and work in the UK with no restrictions.

High standards

Committee members are expected to demonstrate high standards of corporate and personal conduct. The successful candidates will be asked to subscribe to a Code of Conduct and the standards of probity required by public appointees.

Committee members are expected to fulfil their duties towards ICAEW in accordance with these principles, which are based on the Royal Charter and the ICAEW Code of Ethics.

If you have thought about having your say in accountancy regulation, joining one of our regulatory or disciplinary committees will give you that opportunity. And for accountants, involvement with committee discussions can possibly count towards verifiable CPD, depending on the nature of the case and the area of regulation.

Other benefits include:

• helping to develop, maintain and support expected standards of practice and professional conduct by serving on an ICAEW regulatory or disciplinary committee; and
• working with people from a variety of backgrounds and careers to make decisions on conduct issues in areas including audit, probate, insolvency and practice assurance.

Find out what ICAEW committee members have to say

Learn directly from committee members in our featured videos as they share their personal experiences, insights, and the rewarding aspects of their roles.

• Access our committee videos

Committees meet between three and 12 times a year (both remotely and physically), and all members are given an attendance allowance, as explained in our candidate information pack.

Members of the regulatory and disciplinary committees are appointed by the Regulatory and Conduct Appointments Committee (RACAC) which has a majority of lay members and a lay chair. RACAC reports to the ICAEW Regulatory Board (IRB)

ICAEW regulatory and disciplinary committees support the operation of the Professional Standards Department. The department is responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting the expected standards of practice and professional conduct.

To achieve a clear separation of responsibility for policy making and enforcement, members of the ICAEW Council cannot serve on any of these committees.

Appointment and tenure of office

Committee members are usually appointed to each committee for a three-year term. Reappointment can be made at the end of the first term for another three years, subject to consistently high performance and the needs of ICAEW. Each reappointment will be considered; it is not automatic.

Remuneration

All committee members receive an allowance of £385 for attendance at committee meetings and for each day of a hearing or committee meeting. This includes full hearings or meetings which members attend using teleconferencing facilities. Chair (and Vice Chair when sitting as Chair) roles receive a greater allowance specific to the committee.

All committee members are eligible to claim expenses, at rates set centrally, for travel and subsistence costs necessarily incurred on ICAEW business. These will be reimbursed directly and committee members must make their own arrangements for any payment of tax or National Insurance contributions. Remuneration and expenses are subject to periodic review.

Training

We will provide an appropriate training programme including induction training, committee observations and attending an annual committee training day.

More information about the ICAEW committees that are responsible for regulatory matters, statutory regulation, appeals and discipline can be found on our website.

• Access further information about ICAEW Regulatory and Disciplinary committees
• Access the ICAEW Regulatory and Disciplinary committee's structure 

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We believe that the profession, and our own organisation, does best when it reflects the society we serve. We are focused on promoting a fair opportunity for all. Appointments at ICAEW will always be made on merit. We recognise that we are currently underrepresented in some areas and we particularly encourage applications from people of ethnic minority backgrounds. If you don’t have previous panel experience, please don’t let that discourage you from applying. We recognise the value that different backgrounds, work and life experience brings and therefore value experience from a range of different career sectors.

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