OUR SERVICES
Assurance Services
In ever changing industries, with ever changing strategies and increased expectations from customers and clients, you will not find an organisation that provides more personalised services catered to your specific needs in providing you the assurance that you need that your goals will be reached in terms of governance, risk management and control.
Enterprise Risk Management
An integrated risk management structure throughout an organisation is essential for the achievement of goals and objectives and needs the co-operation of everyone. Let us assist you in assessing and identifying your organisations ERM maturity and the essentials for implementing, monitoring and managing a successful risk management and co-ordination structure for the efficient, effective and economical achievement of your organisations objectives and goals.
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Recruitment & Placement
According to Jim Collins, the distinguishing feature between a good and great company, is the people that works there. As an organisation, you need qualified and experienced resources that will fit in with your organisational values and structures to help build your organisation. As individuals you need to find positions that will assist you to flourish and reach your personal goals. At IA professionals we pride ourselves in providing the best people for
Forward thinking ambitious organisations take risks on an ongoing basis, and the challenge is to decide which risks are worth it. Those decisions are based on information derived from systems and processes, and the success of your organisation relies greatly on the accuracy and integrity of the information that decision makers receive. Without the right level of assurance it’s difficult to know if governance, risk management and controls are at the right level.
While external audits can provide invaluable financial business insight, we believe there is a lot more to business than just finance.
At IA Professionals, we thrive on complexity and challenges, and apply that passion to all areas of the business in order to provide our clients with the peace of mind that they require.
Our involvement in professional activities, being members of professional bodies, serving on organizational committees and being part of professional task teams allow us to be pro-active in terms of risk management, control, governance and compliance, and to communicate developments to our clients and audit committees about issues and information that impacts their organization and industry.
Our services include
- Strategic risk management design and implementation (ERM)
- Organisational risk assessment facilitation (Strategic and Operational)
- Risk management assessments
- Corporate governance assessments
- Internal Auditing (Outsourcing and Co-Sourcing)
- Internal Audit Activity Quality Assessment Reviews (QAR’s)
- Internal Audit Activity start-up and development (Sourcing of qualified internal audit staff)
- Training and Development
- Skills Transfers
- Data Mining and Data Analytics (ACL)
- IT Governance
Internal Audit must add value to an organisation. Beacuse value is not always quantifiable, our approach seeks to provide the optimum level of assurance at the lowest cost, and through reviews freeing up vital resources by focussing on program efficiencies. Our focus is on the risk culture and ERM of the organisation, because most organistations do not have a thorough understanding of the potential hazards and the impact that it might have on business operations. A skill shortage, combined with a relaxed approach to ‘raising the alarm,’ increases the risk to business operations. Too often the raising of concerns is not encouraged, either because there’s no structure in place to deal with the threat or because it’s not recognised as a valuable use of time.
IT Assurance and IT Governance
Too often Information Systems is treated as a backyard operation, while the direction of technology dictates that information systems should be treated as the growth catalyst of your organisation. At IA Professionals we assist by strategically aligning, measuring and governing organisations IT systems so that they operate with greater effectiveness. We base our assessments on COBIT 6 and tailor this comprehensive framework to the size and requirements of your organisation, focusing on aligning IT strategies with organisational strategies, looking at IT and Data risk.
Regulatory Compliance
IA Professionals provides a range of compliance related services and we keep ourselves abreast with the latest developments in terms of legislation and regulations, as well as best practice that pertain specifically to your organization. We can assist with the establishment of efficient, effective and economical compliance programs, training and presentation of such programs to management and the audit committee, and form part of working management committees that considers implementation and timing approaches.
Corporate Governance is much more than just King III. It is the backbone of an organization and includes aspects of ethics, which supports an appropriate culture of corporate governance, communication, education, compliance and the likes. Organizations face a variety of corporate governance concerns as well as intense internal and external scrutiny. Our professionals assist clients by conducting corporate governance assessments, which includes King III compliance, and by developing policies and procedures, monitoring structures and educational and oversight programs to support proper corporate governance. We also develop frameworks that can help an organization conduct self-assessments of its existing corporate governance practices.
A Quality Assurance Review (QAR) aims to provide Internal Audit Activities assurance that they conform to the Definition of Internal Auditing and the International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing and an evaluation of whether the internal auditors apply the Code of Ethics.
We perform Quality Assurance reviews to both public and private entities
We assess:
- The effectiveness of the Internal Audit Activity
- Conformance to the definition and the Standards
- The application of the Code of Ethics
Provide an opinion on conformance, identify opportunities and provide workable solutions to enhance the performance of the Internal Audit Activity.