Advisory

Our Advisory Services provide practical insights, trustworthy and best value solutions, and consulting whenever your business needs it. Our collaborative approach is what differentiates us. The key to our working style is a partnership. We start by understanding the challenges and threats that your business is facing, your strategies, and your aspirations, bringing onboard experts to provide wise solutions, and working with you every step of the way.

Transactions Advisory

Transactions Advisory services provides assistance to clients in the execution of major transactions including mergers, acquisitions, divestments, and funding assistance.

Valuation Services

Offers our expertise in determining the fair value of entities, business assets, or specific tangible or intangible assets.

Buy-side or Sell-side Due Diligence

Assists clients in determining value drivers and potential deal breakers in potential transactions through an extensive review.

Financial Model Development and Review

Provides support to clients through the construction of financial models that simulates the financial impact of the clients’ business decisions.

Internal Audit and Risk Consulting Services

The internal audit function is an effective strategic partner in a world of rapid technological change fueled by digital transformation and innovation, which have become imperative for all businesses, either small, medium, or large. An effective internal audit function accelerates the success of an organization, which is best reflected in its ability to efficiently control its business activities, ensure conformance with policies and strategy, strengthen compliance with regulatory requirements, and provide stakeholders with the confidence that the organization can meet its business objectives through today’s uncertain business environment.

Internal Audit Outsourcing

Deliver an end-to-end internal audit services that are risk-based and process-focused, including planning, risk assessment, execution, reporting, and monitoring of the resolution of audit issues.

Internal Audit Co-sourcing

Work with your internal audit function by performing audits either on a per-project basis, by geographical locations, and/or specific processes or areas in your audit plan or by providing critical and specialized skills to supplement your resources for better risk and audit coverage.

Internal Audit Quality Assurance Assessments

Perform a full quality assurance (QA) review or a self-assessment with independent validation (SAIV) by providing you with an opinion regarding your internal audit activity’s conformance with the spirit and intent of the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards) and offering specific improvement opportunities to enhance your internal audit’s value and credibility within your organization.

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Help you design and implement an ERM strategy or optimize your existing ERM program that unlocks your organization’s ability to deeply understand and manage risks and exploit opportunities in a systematic, dynamic, and forward-looking approach enabling better strategic decision-making to support the achievement of business objectives.

Internal Audit Loaned Staff

Assign full-time and experienced audit consultants who will directly report to your internal audit function to augment your resources in executing your audit plan.

Compliance and Regulatory Consulting

Organizations in all regulated areas and industries face an increasing array of compliance obligations. The compliance and regulatory consulting practice help you ensure and strengthen adherence with the global business standards and regulatory frameworks to prepare and protect your organization against threats, increase credibility and reliability, and promote stakeholder confidence.

Data Privacy Governance and Management Consulting Services

Protect your Privacy, People and Business. We provide compliance assistance as a step towards adherence with the DPA of 2012, EU’s GDPR, ISO 27001 and its supplement, ISO 27701, to reach an optimized state of privacy maturity by conducting the required privacy impact assessment, developing a data privacy management program, designing and creating a privacy compliance dashboard, facilitating privacy training and awareness, among others.

Independent Compliance Testing and Anti-Money Laundering Consulting Services

Assist you in conducting required independent compliance testing on critical and core processes to assess level of compliance with the Anti-money laundering and other regulatory requirements. We can also help you in developing and implementing Money Laundering/Terrorism Financing Prevention Program (MLPP).

Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Reviews

Provide a comprehensive review of your organization’s effectiveness in managing its internal controls over financial reporting structures and operating processes—from assessing your organization’s key financial processes to defining gaps and redundancies in information systems. The review covers analyzing whether adequate controls are present for access, security, data backup, and change management.

Process and Quality Management

The success of any organization is dependent on how work is performed be it in operations, management or support. A faulty process can cost your business significant resources—money, property, time. When processes work well, your business goals can be achieved with little to no waste.

Process Quality Review and Design

Perform process quality assessment based on your current operations and how your people are executing their functions. This review covers both the process and people aspect of the work system to reinforce internal controls, standardize data gathering, and to improve and streamline the activities in the organization.

Board Effectiveness Review

Perform rules-based and interviews-based assessment aimed at facilitating a consensus on the performance of the Board as a basis for improving such performance in the future.

This review is regulatory-driven with focus on the legal and regulatory formalities, particularly the existence of “checks and balance” governance mechanisms in order to promote independence from undue shareholder influence, control of management behavior and the diligent monitoring of the Company’s performance and sustainability.

ISO 9001 Readiness Review

Assess your operations to determine compliance and readiness with ISO 9001:2015 certification.
The ISO 9000 family of quality management systems is a set of standards that helps organizations ensure they meet customers and other stakeholder needs within statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product or service. ISO 9001:2015 spells out the requirements for such quality management system.

IT Assurance and Consulting

With the current development and growth in the business landscape, technology has become the most important driver of success. With it comes a long list of IT risks that are critical for organizations to understand and find solutions to.

IT Assurance and Consulting Practice focuses on providing comprehensive and quality services to help your organization’s management in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks arising from the use of technology to further improve your business operations and get the full value from your IT resources.

IT Assurance Services

Help your organization to identify IT risks, evaluate IT controls in place, assess compliance with your policies and procedures and relevant standards and regulatory requirements, and determine areas for improvements/ inefficiencies. These services include IT General Controls Review, Application Controls Review, System Pre-Implementation Review, Post Implementation Review, or review of specific IT control areas i.e., access controls, change management, network management, disaster recovery plan.

Assurance Engagement on Controls at a Service Organization / PSAE 3402 Controls Review

Provide independent assurance report similar to a Service Organization Control Audit to assist your organization to comply with the requirements of your customers, business partners, prospective customers, compliance regulators, and external auditors and increase its confidence over the security, availability, confidentiality, processing integrity and privacy of your services and systems.

Digital Transformation Maturity Diagnostics

Assist your organization in assessing the current state of its IT and business operations, to gauge its capability towards Digital Transformation and compete in the global market today and in the near future, and providing recommendations to achieve its desired future state.

IT Diagnostics / Systems Health Check

Perform a health check of your application systems and the underlying IT governance and management controls to identify potential business issues and root causes.

Independent Validation Services

Provide independent assurance services (i.e., official tabulator) during election of board of directors/trustees, beauty pageants, and awards program to increase confidence over accuracy of the results and comply with relevant regulatory requirements.

Cyber Security and Resiliency Services

With rapidly evolving malware, emerging and advancing threats, and a constantly shifting regulatory landscape, it is essential to clearly understand the cyber risks associated with your information technology assets. The Cyber Security and Resilience Practice helps you on your organization’s practices to prepare, identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover in an information technology environment. We help you build and improve the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of your IT systems and associated information and services.

Information Security Assurance Services

We help establish your assurance programs for IT and information security controls for your internal security assurance team (2nd line) and internal audit team (3rd line). We help you understand the assurance that your organization needs and security areas that require further discovery and organizational understanding.

Security Management System Consulting

Help you define an enterprise cybersecurity strategy that fits your context and support your implement of information security management systems and security solutions – from business case development to procurement support and solution implementation.

Security Awareness and Training

Help prepare your people to face security threats and prevent hackers from exploiting them as vulnerability in the cyber security control chain. We have designed relevant and interactive training that helps get the most important messages across a diverse range of audiences.

Cyber Resilience Consulting

Help you strategize and establish plans that keep your organization up and running. We cover business continuity, disaster recovery, and incident management plans and practices.

Information Security Assurance Services

Know how secure your IT environment is. We provide a breadth of assurance services – from rapid, high-level security health checks to comprehensive technical audits aligned with international and best practice standards, such as ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management System, NIST Cyber Security Framework, and MITRE ATT&CK Framework. Our services cover your security governance, strategy, and operations assessing people, process, technology, and cultural aspects. This covers read teaming exercises, such as vulnerability assessment and penetration testing, and incident response and preparedness.