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Risk Assurance
Data Assurance &
Insights
Middle East

2. Data Assurance & Insights
Confidence through smarter data
The volume and variety of data has increased exponentially in recent years,
revolutionising decision-making. Intuition is no longer acceptable for
executives when making big decisions. The real challenge comes in converting
data into a more comprehensible and user-friendly format, creating actionable
insights and applying these to transform your organisation.
What’s on your mind?
What good looks like
How we can help
As organisations rely on data to provide unique customer
experiences and analyse and track key risks, it is imperative
that relevant and accurate data is used throughout the
decision making process. Issues in these areas affect business
decisions and financial performance so data must be well-
managed before it can be analysed effectively.
All organisations are unique. We understand that the right answers for each have to be considerably tailored to the organisation’s
uniqueness.
When to act
What you gain
There are logical triggers in your business activities that
prompt action. Here are some examples:
Efficient and effective governance that will allow
you to make strategic decisions about how you can
realise the value in your data.
Strong data foundations through an approach to
master data that is sustainable and able to change with
your business priorities.
Improved competitive advantage with robust
information that supports more confident and agile
decision making.
Enhanced performance based on a deep
understanding of how well your processes are operating
and the levers to improve performance.
Journey to continuous auditing that will drive
efficient and effective audits using data analytics to
provide business insight and value.
Awareness of social media and how your
organisation can control it to maintain competitive
adavantage.
You are embarking on a major change where data
will be impacted or new data will be introduced.
Information and data quality across your
organisation is inconsistent and conflicting.
You do not trust the information presented and
spend more time checking the data than using it to
drive decisions.
You are experiencing problems with business
transactions.
Data has senior sponsorship and ownership, and
data governance activities are embedded.
Master data is identified and understood with an
organisation wide focus on managing it effectively.
The organisation has confidence in the data and
analytics being used to provide insights to it’s
decision-making process.
The organisation has full awareness of social media
channels and controls how they are used.
Data analytics is leveraged to drive compliance
and improvement of processes and systems.
Data analytics is an integral part of auditing to
bring insight, value and robust findings efficiently.
Knowing that the data you hold is fit for
purpose and well-managed is key – this
allows you to determine how to analyse
data and to be confident in the decisions
you make.
These are the fundamentals that need to be in place:
We help you identify
the data that matters
and how to use it
We have developed
transformation
guidance that delivers a
robust continuous
auditing environment
We provide hands-on
support for data migration,
data reconciliations and
master data programmes
We leverage our broad
experience in processes,
controls and data to
provide insight to you
We can support you through the
different steps of establishing effective
governance
Management
information
confidence
Master
data
excellence
Data
enabled
auditing
Process
assurance &
risk analytics
Data
governance
We can support you in
growing board level
awareness, developing a
social media strategy and
assessing social media
maturity
We provide an integrated
and strategic approach to
compliance monitoring
through advanced
analytics
Social
media
governance
Advanced
risk &
compliance
analytics