Internal Audit/Risk & Control
Risk Advisory
The business environment today is more complex and uncertain. Organizations are
increasingly interconnected and interdependent, and technology is evolving at an
accelerating pace; as a result, improved risk management is a strategic priority.
- Internal Controls Evaluation and Improvement
- Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) / Internal Financial Control
- Enterprise-wide Risk Management
- Internal Audit Services
- Fraud Investigation Services
- Compliance and Regulatory Risk Management
- IT Advisory and Audit Services
- ERP Implementation Support and Advisory
Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR)
We help companies in complying with internal control over financial reporting (ICFR)
through designing, documentation and testing on behalf of management. In addition to
assisting companies with ICFR, we help management streamline and improve their
internal control environment to save effort while obtaining optimal risk coverage.
Internal Audit services
The opportunity for Internal Audit has never been greater as it is rapidly coming out of
shadows of ‘financial audit’, but requires expertise and passion, on part of the
professionals to prove its value. Optimal, with its experts, and practical and effective
approach aimed at improving operational efficiency and governance, and ensuring
compliances, is giving value addition to its clients in these challenging times. We help
organisations improve their corporate governance practices, risk management and
internal control systems by focusing on strategic and operational risk issues spanning
different functions and operating units. We support our clients through:
- Complete outsourced Internal Audit
- Co-sourced Internal Audit
- Quality Assessment of Internal Audit function
- Establishment of effective Internal Audit function
- Time Tracking / Time Sheet Management & Billing Reconciliation Audit
- Service industry now a days provides services to clients linked with time & efforts
requirement. The same requires revenue assurance in terms of time management
and its accurate billing, error free.
- Many times, client complaints whenever excess billing is done or not supported
with the correct time & efforts or agreed cost structures. However, many times,
short or non-billing remains undetected or unnoticed due to process gaps.
- Thus revenue assurance in such cases becomes extremely important to identify
such cases of non or short billing. At the same time, such gaps are required to set
right for future such possibility of revenue shortage or leakage.
- This activity requires focus exercise of time recording and its billing through the help
of skilled and experienced professionals.
- We provide organisations such services of revenue assurance by identifying design
errors in contracts/ SOW; contract/SOW compliance; time sheet recording & errors;
gaps identification between time sheet & billing i.e. short or non-billing cases
identification; cost saving opportunities, if any; timely billing & recovery.
Enterprise-wide Risk Management (EwRM)
Recent financial crisis and corporate frauds have led to a sharp increase in the attention
paid to risk and risk management by regulators, credit agencies, boards, and other key
stakeholders.
Companies are looking hard at what is needed to better identify and manage significant
risks, including strategic, operational, financial, compliance and/or reporting risks. We
highly recommend growing businesses to implement, EwRM, which is an ongoing risk
management process embedded throughout the organization to identify existing and
emerging risks that can prevent your Company from achieving your strategic goals, assess
the potential impact of those risks and manage risks and opportunities within a
predetermined risk appetite. One of the key advantages of EwRM include increased
awareness about key risks of your business and what can be or cannot be done to
mitigate those risks; so you take ‘informed’ strategic and operational decisions.
Fraud Investigation Services
Fraud and misconduct issues continue to be a major concern for the organizations today.
With complex business environment of increased regulation and enforcement, managing
an organization’s risk of fraud and misconduct has become an ever-increasing challenge.
We assist clients in preventing, detecting, and investigating fraud and misconduct, as well
as avoiding and resolving disputes, through our multiple solutions:
- Fraud Risk Assessment and Management
- Background Investigation and Litigation Support
- Fraud, Misconduct and Corruption Investigation
Compliance and Regulatory Risk Management
Today’s organizations face unprecedented challenges in managing risks and complying
with laws, regulations and internal policies in a cost-effective manner. The costs of
regulatory compliance are rising, yet it is too big a risk to ignore compliance. We support
our clients to develop, implement and maintain effective regulatory and internal
compliance programs that maximize the benefits of their investment and protect their
reputations.
IT Advisory & Audit Services
Information Technology (IT) is a significant factor in driving business success. However,
organisations face challenges in rationalising IT costs across the organisation, managing
their overall IT risk position and delivering value from IT. We help clients address the
challenge of managing IT risks in line with their business strategy and let stakeholders gain
confidence that their organisation’s key IT-related risks are identified, understood and
managed effectively. Our IT solutions include:
- IT Controls Review and Improvement
- IT Strategies, Policies and Procedures Development
- IT Asset Management Improvement
- Business Continuity Management, and Disaster & Recovery Management Plans
- Third Party Compliance – SAS 70
- Internal Controls Evaluation
For organizations not having experienced quality internal controls review till now, to start
with, we recommend a quick Dip Stick Review – comparable to operational and financial
health check. We evaluate effectiveness and adequacy of key internal controls of the
organization covering key operations (Sales, Commercial, Finance, Operations, Human
Resource and IT) and business segments, to come up with critical improvement areas and
suggestions to address issues of revenue leakages, opportunity losses and higher costs.
The review helps you to immediately address key operational bottlenecks, revenue
leakages and opportunity loses.
Fixed Asset Management
Physical verification of assets is a process conducted to ensure that the assets of an entity
actually exist and is efficiently utilized. It is of immense importance for every business to
carry out this process and we help the businesses for the cause in following manner:
- Assets Invoice mapping, reconciliations, Re-instating asset found physically
- Mapping current asset utilization level
- Mapping working condition/ user/custodian of assets
- Mapping Asset physical location (Tower, computer, workstation, seat number etc.)