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Risk & Assurance

Improving performance, adding value

Our specialist Risk & Assurance team provides independent support and advice to help a range of organisations, commercial and ‘not for profit’, to meet their governance, risk and control requirements.

We provide a structured approach to assessing business risks and controls enabling boards to evaluate their current systems of internal control against leading practice and industry benchmarks. The objective is to identify opportunities to improve business performance. Our approach is to tailor a solution to the specific needs of our client and ensure that a specialist team works alongside senior management to review the full range of risk, control and internal audit issues across the organisation.

Our services include:

  • Corporate governance: we review and assess the overall framework with reference to: culture, capability, compliance and consistency
  • Risk management: we advise and support initiatives to enhance enterprise-wide activities covering: identification, assessment, treatment, monitoring and reporting of business risks
  • Internal control: we facilitate the updating of corporate policies, procedures and controls, in financial, operational and compliance areas
  • Internal audit: we help with the development of both new and established internal audit activities, using partnering, co-sourcing and outsourcing arrangements.  We also help with quality assessments, general resourcing and undertaking specialist audits
  • Software Services: we can introduce the market leading Magique risk management and Galileo internal audit management software packages developed by Horwath Clark Whitehill, which can be supplied and implemented by Horwath Software. 

We are committed to providing a high quality, practical and cost effective service that meets the individual needs of our clients. Examples of areas of specialism include: Combined Code and Turnbull compliance; Board Performance Evaluation; Business Risk Profiling; IT Audit and Security Reviews; Royalty Auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley S404 advice and resourcing.