Procurement Fraud Prevention and Ethics

Procurement Fraud Prevention and Ethics is a five-day procurement fraud, integrity, and ethics course delivered by Mars Training Centre internationally — in London, Geneva, Dubai, Nairobi, and Accra — designed for procurement, internal audit, compliance, and finance leaders accountable for the integrity of organisational spend.

Procurement is one of the most exposed functions in any organisation. It sits between large sums of money, third parties incentivised to influence decisions, and processes that often run faster than oversight can keep up. The result is a function where fraud, bribery, and ethical lapses can take root quietly and grow expensively before they are detected. Senior procurement, audit, and compliance leaders need a structured understanding of the typologies, the controls that prevent them, and the leadership behaviour that builds an ethical procurement culture.

Across five focused days, you will work through the fraud and ethics landscape — from the typologies of procurement fraud through the legal frameworks, including UK and international anti-bribery law, to the controls, audit techniques, and culture-building that hold the line. The week is delivered by senior practitioners with audit, investigation, and procurement leadership experience. You leave with a personal action plan and a working framework calibrated to your organisation.

What You Will Learn

By the end of this programme, you will be able to:

• Recognise the principal typologies of procurement fraud and corruption.
• Apply the UK Bribery Act and major international frameworks to procurement decisions.
• Diagnose procurement fraud risk across the source-to-pay process.
• Design preventive controls across requisition, sourcing, contracting, and payment.
• Apply detective controls including data analytics and red-flag review.
• Conduct procurement-related investigations to evidential standard.
• Manage conflicts of interest and gifts-and-hospitality regimes.
• Operate an effective procurement code of ethics.
• Build a procurement integrity culture across the function.
• Communicate procurement integrity risk to executive stakeholders.

How You Will Benefit

You will leave with a structured framework for managing procurement integrity risk, working knowledge of the legal and control environment, and a Mars Certificate of Completion.

Your organisation will gain a procurement, audit, or compliance leader who can identify and remediate integrity weaknesses, reduce exposure to fraud and bribery, and build an ethical procurement culture.

Who This Programme Is For

This programme is designed for procurement, audit, and compliance professionals, including:

• Heads of Procurement and Procurement Directors
• Internal Audit Directors and Heads of Audit
• Chief Compliance Officers and Compliance Managers
• Heads of Investigations and Forensic Leads
• Finance directors with procurement oversight
• Risk and ethics officers
• Senior public-sector procurement leads
• Inspector-general and oversight body officers

The seniority floor is manager level and above.