Ethics and Compliance

You can rely on us to help you develop and operate a comprehensive fraud risk management framework in line with the Home Office reasonable procedures guidance. Our services include: Fraud Risk Assessments, Fraud Prevention and Detection Controls, Fraud Risk Management Frameworks, Fraud Risk Policies, Fraud investigation and remediation, Anti-fraud Training, Anti-fraud Culture and Communications and Fraud risk and control monitoring and analytics.

You can download our Fraud Risk Management brochure for more information.

You may also find our “Demonstrating reasonable fraud prevention procedures” guide useful.

Our compliance maturity assessments will help your organisation understand what good looks like, how mature its ethics and compliance framework is and how to develop it successfully.

Our maturity model and assessment have been informed by our experience, leading practice guidance and regulatory requirements. We use our tried and tested assessment methodology involving desktop review, interviews, surveys and workshops. You will receive a report with recommendations and a roadmap of how to achieve your desired state of maturity. Your compliance risks and requirements, your policy and controls frameworks, your business processes and your ethics and compliance monitoring will all be taken into account.

An activity-driven risk assessment is essential to properly understand your organisation’s key compliance risk exposures and the required controls.

You will benefit from our extensive experience supporting clients across multiple sectors to assess and develop their ethics and compliance frameworks. The risk assessments can cover multiple compliance risk areas or focus on specific risk areas such as responding to the requirements of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023.

A robust framework, an appropriately resourced and skilled Ethics and Compliance function and a culture of ethical decision-making are all key to effectively managing compliance risks. We build holistic frameworks based on our understanding of your organisations’ unique needs. Our ethics and compliance framework design includes policy and process design, risks and controls design, reporting and record keeping and training and monitoring.

Your framework will be built on an understanding of your compliance risks and exposures, clear policies and controls, and processes to detect and investigate non-compliance.

Recent regulatory changes including updates to the UK Corporate Governance Code have prioritised compliance and operational controls and have created new requirements for effective risk management and internal control frameworks as well as mandated board statements on their effectiveness. 

We will help you understand your compliance and operational control environment so that you can have assurance that the design and implementation of your compliance and operational controls are fit for purpose.

We can help raise awareness and build understanding internally of your risk and controls culture. We can also help you implement GRC technology and data analytics to support both assurance and reporting.

Through our experience of developing our own Unifying Culture, our culture experts can support you to define and embed the culture that you need for your organisation to be successful and to deliver your purpose through your own Unifying Culture. We can support you throughout your culture journey with the following services:

1. Culture maturity assessments 
2. Culture assessment and deep dives
3. Culture definition and strategy
4. Culture change and transformation
   
   

Find out more: Risk Culture Capability Statement

Risk culture refers to an organisation’s attitudes and behaviours towards risk management. Risk culture is observed in how both individuals and groups identify, understand, openly discuss, escalate and act on current and emerging risks. We believe a strong ethical and risk culture produces better decision-making and improves business and customer outcomes.

Our services include: 

1. Risk culture assessment,
2. Integration into your Internal Audit programme
3. Behavioural Science expertise in the design and evaluation of risk culture assessment.
4. Root cause analysis of non-compliance findings
   
   

Discover our Risk Culture Capability Statement

Ongoing compliance monitoring not only ensures that regulatory obligations and internal standards are met but also embeds a culture of compliance. It improves organisational resilience by helping to quickly identify and address issues before they can affect operations or reputation.

Effective compliance monitoring programmes will identify common root causes of non-compliance to drive improvements and prevent future non-compliance. We can perform compliance monitoring services focused on your highest risks and utilising our global network across all your key locations. 

The performance of Third parties' can have a significant impact on your organisation's success and reputation as well as the additional risk of failure to demonstrate compliance with key standards and policies.

We will conduct assessments of your suppliers and contractors' internal control frameworks and compliance with a particular focus on bribery and corruption and fraud risks. These assessments are conducted both onsite and remotely, in the local language, to ensure you and your stakeholders can be confident of compliance.

Investing in comprehensive ethics and compliance training helps to develop a culture of accountability and responsibility among employees and demonstrates your organisation’s to ethical conduct. It is also a cornerstone of long-term business success.

We can help deliver training programmes tailored to your industry, size and specific compliance needs. We offer training across a range of topics including anti-bribery, fraud, risk and compliance culture, ethical conduct, human trafficking and modern slavery and conflicts of interest. We offer comprehensive workshops, in-person sessions and dynamic online modules to ensure your people are equipped to uphold the highest standards of ethical behaviour and regulatory compliance.

We would be delighted to discuss how training can support your wider Ethics and compliance work. Please complete the form at the bottom of this page and we will be in touch.

You can also browse our range of online Ethics & Compliance training courses.