Given an increasing number of regulatory initiatives, a challenging market environment and rapid technological change, most finance and risk functions act in the eye of the hurricane. Today, CROs and CFOs of major companies are facing complex challenges, such as:
- Staying on top of the regulatory agenda in terms of understanding upcoming initiatives, simulation of regulatory impacts and management of a highly complex change portfolio
- Ensuring the effective management and allocation of scarce capital, balance sheet and liquidity resources
- Sound measurement and effective management of credit, market, liquidity and operational risks, as well as new risk types, such as cyber risk
- Balancing cost pressure and increasing external/internal requirements to the CFO/CRO function through improved target operating models
Comprehensive coverage of the CRO and CFO agenda
Our finance & risk (F&R) practices advise financial services institutions within all fields of the F&R organization covering risk control, financial control, accounting, regulatory reporting, treasury and data management. More than 400 F&R consultants and 30 dedicated F&R researchers provide services in the following areas:
Risk Control & Methodology
- Risk appetite, risk strategy and risk governance
- Comprehensive risk methods: stress testing/scenario analysis and ICAAP/ILAAP
- Risk measurement: credit, counterparty, market, liquidity and non-financial risk
- Risk reporting, limit setting and early-warning systems
- Credit portfolio management, credit pricing and advisory of capital transactions
- Risk target operating model design
Financial Control & Strategic Planning
- Management accounting and performance control
- Strategic planning process design
- Cost accounting and cost management
- Reporting solutions (zeb.control and/or third-party solutions)
- Funds transfer pricing methodology
Financial Accounting
- Implementation of new requirements/standards (IFRS9, prudent valuation, FINREP)
- Hedge accounting
- Multi-GAAP
- Fair value calculation for financial instruments
Regulatory Reporting
- Regulatory monitoring & quantitative impact studies (QIS)
- Design and implementation of regulatory reporting requirements (CoRep, FinRep, disclosure)
- Supervisory relations & reviews (preparation and support of supervisory audits/assessments)
Treasury & ALM
- Interest rate risk return management–optimize interest surplus & maturity transformation
- Liquidity risk return management–management concept of liquidity book and funding mix
- Investment management & asset allocation
- Treasury strategy and governance
- IT solutions and technical support with zeb.integrated treasury-manager
Data Management & Digital Transformation
- Business information modeling
- Data quality management and data governance
- Implementation of BCBS #239 requirements
- Big data analytics
F&R Information Services
- Monitoring of regulatory initiatives and maintenance of zeb.regulatory monitor
- Benchmarking of peer group performance/risk indicators and headcount
- Outside-in scenario analysis and impact analysis
- Publications and studies
