Our Assurance business provides confidence, challenge, and advice to clients on some of their most important issues. Whether it’s for complex financial reporting, finance operations, M&A, governance, regulatory, ESG, or algorithm assurance, your input will help give our clients the assurance they need to make decisions and act. Our work is powered by innovative technology and a collaborative team spanning a range of expertise, including accounting, conduct, governance, compliance, technology, and operations.
Our Assurance teams
- A&A Operate
The A&A Operate team runs, maintains, or enhances a client’s process, capability, or function on a recurring basis. Focusing on quality, speed, and fair outcomes for our client's customers, we also strive to instil good conduct and build trust within organisations through a blend of outstanding talent and smart technology.
Having established our reputation for delivering many of Australia’s largest customer remediation programs, the A&A Operate team now work across four areas:
- Regulatory Operate
- Public Sector Operate
- Finance Operate
- Motor Industry Services
Our engagements require teams with diverse backgrounds and skills. Whether developing large-scale remediation programs for an insurer, assessing grants and complaints for the Commonwealth Government, or operating an anti-money laundering managed service for a bank – we design, implement and deliver our projects knowing there are everyday Australians who deserve fair and consistent outcomes.
- Business Assurance
Our team of Business Assurance specialists helps our clients create world-class operations. We deliver financial, technological, and other solutions to support and address our clients' complex issues.
Our team has a broad remit, with bespoke service offerings across:
- Algorithm Assurance - We assist clients by designing control frameworks, implementing governance processes, and providing analytics-related services to ensure algorithms operate as they should.
- Media Assurance - A dedicated service offering, supporting new and existing clients in optimising their marketing strategies and operations.
- ESG and Investor Relations - Our team develops and delivers service offerings related to ESG reporting and investment, as well as investor relations.
- Motor Industry Services - We work specifically with motor industry clients to help navigate change, connect with other automotive stakeholders, and shape the local and global motor industry.
- Risk & Regulatory CoE - We focus on providing financial risk, regulatory, and specialist IFRS services to Financial Services organisations.
- CFO Advisory
CFO Advisory (internally known as our Finance Assurance team) serves as strategic advisers to the CFOs of the nation's most influential organisations. We use high-quality, creative solutions to help CFOs and finance departments add value to their organisations.
We help our clients make their finance functions more efficient and effective by providing accounting advice on complex transactions, helping implement new finance technologies, improving finance processes, or even helping set up new finance functions.
- Controls Assurance
Our team advises some of Australia’s most significant businesses and organisations on their control environments and provides assurance on the frameworks that stakeholders rely on.
Our goal is to deliver differentiated internal audit services and transform control management by harnessing the power of digital and data. We believe in truly understanding the control issues, opportunities, and frameworks for our clients, offering industry insight to help build resilience and readiness in an uncertain and transformational environment.
- Governance, Regulation & Conduct (GRC)
Our team provides a wide range of services to assist our clients in meeting their regulatory and compliance obligations. This means helping clients understand and implement regulatory change, supporting enhanced governance to ensure decisions are made by the right people, and developing ways to put the customer’s interest at the heart of their decisions.
Our work with clients is from several perspectives: we help them look backward, identify past problems, and remediate them. We also help clients strengthen their business models going forward, minimise the risk of regulatory and conduct issues, and review and redesign existing processes and frameworks to deliver better outcomes.
- Treasury and Capital Markets (TCM)
Our team focuses on providing advisory services in 5 key areas – corporate treasury, payments advisory, banking treasury, quantitative finance solutions, and energy advisory. Our clients range from ASX200 to large global corporations, financial institutions, governments, and challengers.
Our service offerings through both advisory and audit channels include:
- Financial risk management solutions include market risks, liquidity risks, funding and refinancing risks, and counterparty credit risk
- Banking, insurance, and superannuation governance, controls, and regulatory support for markets and treasury divisions (including APRA, Basel, and IOSCO regulations and standards)
- Treasury strategy, operating model, and transformation support
- Cash management, transactional banking, payments, and working capital optimisation
- Investment management solutions for selected clients across all asset classes
- Treasury technology, including dealing, settlement, cash management, and risk management systems
- Outsourced treasury services
- Operational risk management support for treasury and investment functions.