Our team of specialised internal auditors provides outsourced and co-sourced internal audit services, generally delivered through outsourced contracts with clients across a wide range of industry sectors. This approach enables clients to meet their internal audit requirements without having to invest internally in staff, management and skills development. Our approach is designed to maximise the value of your internal audit spend, through our extensive skills, experience and agile better practice internal audit methodology. Our clients choose us and continue to work with us because we align with their culture, are passionate about what we do, are is willing to work with them to improve and adjust as needed, focus on positive engagement and working collaboratively with our clients to develop fit for purpose solutions and are trusted advisors who are your fearless friends, unafraid to raise difficult issues and concerns with you.
Our specialised Cyber Security and Technology Risk Team will help you navigate the everchanging and increasingly complex landscape of technology risk and leverage modern digital systems to increase your resilience and help protect your organisational value and reputation. We are well-versed in recognised and relevant Australian and international standards, frameworks and better practice. We work closely with you to ensure your technology platforms and initiatives are secure, efficiently implemented, and strategically aligned with your objectives.
Our team of Probity specialists are focussed in helping you to achieve successful procurement outcomes while adhering to the highest standards of integrity and compliance with complex regulatory guidelines. We distinguish ourselves through our efficient response times and pragmatic approach to complex issues, enabling you to navigate the challenges of tight funding, resource limitations, and increased scrutiny from media and stakeholders. We proactively highlight probity risks and identify safeguards which further help protect your procurement process. We provide two levels of support, Probity Audit being audit activities to confirm your adherence to required procurement procedures and Probity Advisory offering you advisory support through the procurement process, to help you in adhering to requirements.
Procurement is becoming less tactical and more strategic with a focus on utilising each sourcing opportunity to help drive value for money outcomes. Further, organisations operating within Government and heavily regulated industries continually face tightening funding constraints and increased scrutiny. Consequently, organisations need to ensure their procurement and sourcing is planned and structured effectively, scope of works are properly and comprehensively developed, engages the supplier market in the most appropriate way, and enables a clear evaluation and assessment that considers the technical and operational scope, financial and commercial models, and risk allocation. Engaging with our skilled and experienced practitioners will help you drive sourcing outcomes tomeet your operational and strategic needs
Our skilled and experienced team help you manage the inherent risks associated with alliance contracts (such as incentivised target cost contracts) primarily focussed within the infrastructure sector. We build relationships based on communication, openness and honesty, knowledge and experience, independence, timeliness and trust. All while ensuring our advice is value driven, considers commercial outcomes and the risk reward trade-offs, demonstrates value in line with National Alliance Contracting Guidelines and industry better practice. Our approach blends skills and experience in data analytics, procurement systems and process compliance, cost accounting, assurance and commercial understanding of agreements.
In today’s dynamic business environment, various sources of disruption and change may leave your organisation exposed to external and internal risks. The way you choose to respond and adapt to change can help you preserve value, achieve strategic objectives, ensure sustainability, and thrive. Regulators, shareholders, and the public increasingly hold organisations accountable with expectations that they maintain a robust risk management framework and supporting processes that are continually evaluated for effectiveness. Our specialist team of risk advisors can help your business improve your response to risks and opportunities through a collaborative approach aimed at enhancing the integration of risk management into your day to day working practices.
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