Financial And Risk Advisory
We help clients manage financial risks, limit financial exposures, and build a stronger business and operating model
Contact Us >Today's digitized environment is evolving day by day, so risks do. Today's complex risk environment places extraordinary demands on organizations. Risk management helps you protect your valuable assets, trade secrets, employee information, Organization good name, intellectual property. Working with the SBC risk experts team enables you to address risks associated with increased regulatory oversight and competition.
Our team works with clients proactively to help them identify and mitigate business and functional risks, optimize costs, build efficiencies in processes by strengthening internal controls and systems.
We have an expert team of qualified professionals with diverse knowledge and industry experience working with leading companies, both listed and unlisted, having a domestic and multinational presence.
At SBC, our endeavor is not to sell you yet another run-of-the-mill financial advisory but help you with a comprehensive, tailored financial solution. We customize the financial plan to suit your requirements.
GOVERNANCE, RISK, AND COMPLIANCE SERVICES
In today’s business environment, regulators, investors, and independent directors are focusing on corporate governance. Organizations need to fine tune their processes and controls. Many organizations are recognizing the need to transform their internal audit and risk management functions to turn these challenges into opportunities.
FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT
Today's world is more concerned about increasing financial risk. Various investigations are ongoing on multinational enterprises. Enterprises of all kinds and sizes want robust financial risk management framework to meet compliance demands.
FORENSIC AUDIT AND INVESTIGATIONS
Financial scandals have been increasing at a rapid phase over the past decade. Competitor and regulatory pressures are challenges business leaders take in stride, what they often do not expect is misconduct from internal or external perpetrators who can severely damage a company’s reputation. SBC forensic professionals provide strategic consultation to organizations, helping them resolve high state matters including corruption, fraud, and accounting irregularities.
OTHER SERVICES
In today’s business environment, regulators, investors, and independent directors are focusing on corporate governance. Organizations need to fine tune their processes and controls. Many organizations are recognizing the need to transform their internal audit and risk management functions to turn these challenges into opportunities.
Our Offerings
Our Internal Audit Consulting team performs internal audits to provide an independent and objective review on the functioning of an organization’s systems, processes, and controls to management. We identify risks in each business function, perform process walkthroughs, documentation review, data analytics, identifying areas of risk due to gaps in the process and scope of improvement in operations. Based on this, we suggest practical recommendations to management to introduce relevant controls, improve operational efficiency, and minimize risk.
As part of our Risk Advisory Services, we assess, develop and document Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Policies for organizational functions based on the facts of the client, their risk profile, and management objectives. Our SOPs introduce best business practices based on our diverse exposure and knowledge pool created over decades of professional practice.
We help our clients in complying with IFC requirements for financial reporting as per applicable guidelines of Companies Act 2013. We perform design and testing of IFC Framework which includes documenting Risk & Control matrices, testing, and validating controls from a design and effectiveness perspective to safeguard the interest of various stakeholders.
We evaluate critical processes as identified by the management of the Company and assist the clients in eliminating activities that don’t create value, enhance process optimization, and identify areas and tools for saving cost.
We have a specialized team that advises clients in minimizing the cybersecurity risk in today’s technology-driven ecosystem. We evaluate IT policies, access rights, security vulnerabilities of the network, server, workstations, etc. to enhance an organization’s response to the increased risk of cyber-attacks.
We engage with clients to carry out a risk assessment of the critical process, preparation of process risk registers, categorization of risks, drafting and deployment of detailed risk mitigation plan. Such Risk Advisory Services enable us to support the client in long term monitoring of operating effectiveness of risk mitigation plans.
We carry out special reviews as directed by the management of the client to appraise the effectiveness, efficiency, and sufficiency of systems and controls of a specific process or division of the Company. Accordingly, based on observations, the risk is assessed, gaps are identified, and suggestions are discussed with management to minimize these risks.
Our team of Risk Advisory Consultants help our clients in identifying the root cause of key challenges faced by the business as identified by the management and identify key management initiatives required to address these challenges and enable optimism growth. We conduct interviews with key personnel, review documentation, perform process walkthroughs to identify the gaps in strategy, systems, team, etc., perform root cause analysis and accordingly share recommendations for improvement, with management.
We provide support to our clients in assessing the performance and health of a store/outlet by conducting store/outlet audits based on the parameters agreed with the management. This includes surprise physical verification, store controls review, mystery audits, physical stock count, store performance review, etc.
This supports businesses to implement and monitor new processes, policies and mitigating controls for new emerging risks post COVID situation for business continuity.