About Us

Paul Morris, Managing Director

Gold Oak Consulting is led by Paul Morris, a financial services compliance consultant with 20 years' experience working in senior roles for the highest calibre organisations in the City. Paul advises firms on a wide range of compliance issues and is an expert in SMCR and how it can help your business run more effectively.

His experience as a Supervision Team Manager at the FSA allows him to help firms understand what regulators are looking for. And through his experience as a compliance practitioner with both Deloitte and Goldman Sachs he knows how to deliver regulatory expectations quickly, efficiently and to budget.

Paul can help your firm with a wide range of compliance work including board reporting, Conduct Risk and investigations, preparing for and managing regulatory exams, regulator liaison, and staff training and development.

He has worked extensively on fitness and propriety, T&C, TCF, ABC, PA dealing, conflicts and provided regulatory coaching to over 100 Senior Managers.

Paul also acts as a compliance subject matter expert to support Internal Audit teams.

We have a proven track record of delivering regulatory change projects quickly, effectively and within budget for banks, asset managers, insurers, wealth managers and other firms and can partner with a trusted network of experienced compliance professionals to provide the resources you need for any size of engagement.