Assurance and regulatory readiness

Assurance that is useful rather than filed

Most assurance arrives too late to change anything and is written to be defensible rather than read. The test of an assurance framework is whether a finding it raises in month three alters what happens in month four.

What we cover

• Independent programme review across governance, technical architecture, data migration, testing, cutover and the people and culture dimension that most reviews omit and most programmes fail on.
• Regulatory readiness for programmes running under Central Bank of Ireland, European Central Bank and sectoral supervision, including health-products regulation and principal supplier audits.
• Audit response - assembling and standing over the response, including where an independent third party has been appointed to review it.
• Data protection - data governance and GDPR obligations inside a live delivery programme rather than bolted on at the end.

Evidence

We led the business-process and technology assurance for the migration of a multi-billion euro mortgage portfolio between servicers, under Central Bank of Ireland and acquiring-bank governance with independent review by a Big Four firm. Audit responses were delivered to one hundred per cent completion to the client's satisfaction, ninety per cent of forward-looking assurance actions were closed, and the remainder were handed to business as usual and the incoming management structure as planned.

At an ISEQ-listed distributor we stood up an internal programme-assurance framework alongside an external assurance review, covering governance, technical architecture, data migration, testing, cutover and people.