Bedford Consulting Limited was established by David Sawyer in 1996 with a mission to provide high quality financial consulting services across a wide variety of disciplines and sectors.
Bedford Consulting Limited Director David Sawyer is a UK qualified chartered accountant with over 30 years’ accounting, auditing, consulting and investigation experience. His other key skills include report writing and presentation, project management, staff management and training and coaching. He specialises in the central and local government, regulation, rail and international development sectors. He is also a qualified expert witness, internal auditor and business consultant.
Before establishing Bedford Consulting Limited, David spent 17 years with KPMG in London, starting in conventional fashion in audit and assurance, then as a senior manager in KPMG’s UK Audit Research and Development Unit, where he was responsible for the development and maintenance of procedures for conduct of all audit work in KPMG UK, and finally in the Privatisations Unit, where he was a senior manager in KPMG's team of 20 Government accounting and tax advisers on rail privatisation, collaborating closely with Department of Transport, Office of Passenger Rail Franchising, British Rail and other advisers.
Bedford Consulting Limited Director David Sawyer is a UK qualified chartered accountant with over 30 years’ accounting, auditing, consulting and investigation experience. His other key skills include report writing and presentation, project management, staff management and training and coaching. He specialises in the central and local government, regulation, rail and international development sectors. He is also a qualified expert witness, internal auditor and business consultant.
Before establishing Bedford Consulting Limited, David spent 17 years with KPMG in London, starting in conventional fashion in audit and assurance, then as a senior manager in KPMG’s UK Audit Research and Development Unit, where he was responsible for the development and maintenance of procedures for conduct of all audit work in KPMG UK, and finally in the Privatisations Unit, where he was a senior manager in KPMG's team of 20 Government accounting and tax advisers on rail privatisation, collaborating closely with Department of Transport, Office of Passenger Rail Franchising, British Rail and other advisers.
Disciplines include:
- Forensic Accounting Investigations and Anti-Corruption
- Financial and Management Accounting and Reporting
- Financial and Management Accounting Systems
- Financial and Management Training
- Risk Management and Audit
- Corporate and Organisational Restructuring
Sectors include:
- Financial Services/Regulation
- Transport: United Kingdom
- Transport: International
- Central Government: United Kingdom
- Central Government: International
- Education
- Extractive Industries
- Other
Clients include:
Financial Services/Regulation
- Financial Conduct Authority
- USAID/Chemonics
- Vetco
- Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
- Serious Fraud Office (SFO)
- Insolvency Service (previously Department for Trade and Industry)
- DfID/Sierra Leone Anti-Corruption Commission
- TACIS/IFOA/ICAEW
- USAID/Global Training
- Accountants’ Joint Disciplinary Scheme (JDS)
- GTZ/Turkmenistan State Tax Administration
- UNDP/TACIS/Azerbaijan Audit Chamber
Transport: United Kingdom
- National Express
- Department for Transport (DfT)
- London Underground
- Office of Rail Regulation
- Serco
- Great Eastern Railways/Anglia Railways
- British Rail
Transport: International
- AASC Auditing Firm
- ADB/State Railways of Thailand (SRT)
- ADB/Uzbekistan Railways (UTY)
- ADB/Pakistan Railways
- EuropeAid/Kosovo Railways
- ADB/Vietnam National Railways
- Millennium Challenge Corporation/Mongolian Railways
- Deloitte
- EBRD/Georgian Railways Limited
- Sichuan and Xian provincial and local rail companies
- World Bank/Pakistan Power & Infrastructure Board
- EBRD/PHARE/Bulgarian State Railways
Central Government: United Kingdom
- Crown Agents
- Legal Services Commission (LSC)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
- Office of Water Services
Central Government: International
- USAID/Chemonics
- USAID/Deloitte Consulting
- World Bank/Rural Restructuring Agency
- USAID/JF Kennedy School of Government/Ministry of Finance
- GTZ/TACIS
Education
Extractive Industries
Forensic accounting and investigation work calls for independence of mind, clarity of thought and a tenacious attitude, so that complex situations can be analysed and be presented in clear, accurate and persuasive reports to tight timescales.
Difficult financial times call for streamlined organisations and tight financial disciplines and controls, and we have specialised in helping organisations meet these challenges. Project management and problem solving skills are paramount.
The rail sector continues to receive substantial investment worldwide in recognition of its essential contribution to successful economic development. Investors require beneficiary organisations to make institutional reforms to ensure that they obtain the full benefits of the investment. We have worked on technical assistance and capacity building projects in the rail sector in the UK and 10 countries across Europe and Asia.
Our financial consulting and rail project experience is well suited to the global market and as proof we have worked in 35 different countries worldwide, covering Western and Eastern Europe, Central and South East Asia and Central and West Africa.