Marcine Waterman

Biography

Marcine was Chief Executive of the SSRO from September 2014 to October 2017. While at the SSRO, Marcine oversaw the establishment of the organisation and the discharge of several of its statutory functions, including the recommendation of a reduced baseline profit rate, providing opinions and legally binding determinations in response to referrals from the MOD and contractors, assessing compliance with reporting requirements and publishing guidance on Allowable Costs.

Prior to that, Marcine led the Audit Commission as Controller of Audit, making sure it efficiently and effectively applied its statutory audit regime for local public bodies, and monitored and managed the performance of the private audit firms providing audit services. Marcine worked at the Audit Commission from 1993, and was involved in most of the Commission’s key change programmes including data quality, fire modernisation verification, Best Value, and market testing. Marcine led the largest and most complex outsourcing procurement the commission has been engaged in, and oversaw the successful closure of the organisation in March 2015.

Previous roles include:

  • Controller of Audit, Audit Commission
  • Senior Consultant, and then Manager, Public Sector & Government Practice at Ernst & Young (USA)
  • Confidential and Legislative Assistant, The White House, US Presidential Office

Previous roles in government

  • Chief Executive, SSRO