A New Age for the Financial Services and Capital Markets Industry
Helping Organizations Transform Business with Comprehensive Financial Risk Management Consulting Services
Our specialized Financial Services Risk Management group is comprised of industry specialists with decades of experience serving community banks and bank holding companies, insurance companies, mortgage companies, thrifts, finance companies and broker-dealers. These consulting professionals have an average of 20 years of experience in the areas of accounting advisory, tax, risk management and information technology/cybersecurity services and have served financial institutions up to $30 billion in total assets.
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What Is Financial Risk Management?
Financial Risk Management is a structured, consistent, and continuous risk management process applied across an entire organization that allows you to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks required to achieve corporate and strategic financial and non-financial risk objectives.
“Our focus is in helping financial services providers to transform their business by preparing, adapting, and recovering from business disruptions, as well as aligning to their organization’s strategy and performance goals.”
— Brian Murrow, Firm Managing Partner, Risk & Accounting Advisory Services
What is the Financial Risk Management Process?
Cherry Bekaert’s financial risk management consulting services helps financial services institutions improve decision-making, increase accountability, provide clarity on key organizational risks, and enable risk-based performance measurement with improved controls efficiency.
We utilize an integrated and proprietary Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework and methodology that can be applied and customized for the financial services industry and includes peer benchmarking, regulatory expectations, and leading practices.
Our integrated approach is both proactive and holistic to manage risk and designed to enhance value by improving risk culture through the identification, assessment, and management of an organization’s risk portfolio in a cost-effective manner.
Technology and Data Enablement
The financial services industry is transforming for a variety of reasons – Regulatory compliance changes, environmental changes, digitally-driven economic climate, changes in the way customers buy and do business. Cherry Bekaert has strategic alliances with several Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) software providers to assist financial services companies with strategy, documentation, vendor selection, and validation and a proprietary roadmap for implementation.
We Offer a Full Array of Risk, Accounting, Financial, and Consulting Services that Give Financial Services Providers the Insight They Need to Compete in a Changing Landscape.
Enterprise Risk Management Services
- ERM Design & Implementation
- Business Continuity Resiliency
- Risk Strategy, Organization and Governance
- Third-Party Risk Management
Internal Audit Staffing
- Internal Audit Co-Sourcing
- Internal Audit Outsourcing
- Staff Augmentation
Internal Audit Industry Solutions
- SEC Filers
- Financial Services (Banks, Mortgage Servicers, Insurance Companies)
Internal Audit Effectiveness
- Internal Audit Strategy & Planning
- Department Design & Set-up
- Internal Audit Transformation
- Quality Assurance Reviews
Regulatory Compliance
- Risk Assessments
- Risk-Based Compliance Monitoring Programs
- Compliance Training
- Pre-Regulatory Compliance Evaluations
Risk Data Analytics and Infrastructure
Operational and Business Resilience
Responsible Innovation: New and Expanded or Modified Products & Services
Fraud Program Design, Implementation, and Gap Assessments
Cybersecurity for Financial Services
Technical Accounting Advisory Services
Technology and Data Enablement
- Digital Risk
- Data Governance / Management / BCBS 239 RDA implementation
Risk Workshops & Training
- Regulatory exam readiness workshops
- Risk Awareness Training Workshops
- Scenario Analysis and Business Resiliency
- Workshops or Table-Top Exercise Planning and Assistance
