Treasury Advisory Services

Treasury is evolving to play a greater strategic role in decision making for the business, ensuring that financial risk is managed effectively.

We have the expertise to support you in repositioning your treasury function to focus on strategic initiatives and in enhancing operational capabilities:

• Benchmarking your organisation’s practice against industry best practices and peers

• Developing the vision and target operating model best suited to your business

• Enhancing governance structure and organisational design, treasury policies, processes and controls

• Executing treasury and cash transformation
  
  

A traditional objective of treasury is managing foreign exchange and interest rate risks within the risk tolerance levels of the company. However, commodity risk management is increasingly falling under the scope of treasury.

We offer a variety of specialist services to help support your priorities in managing uncertainty and variability in financial performance, such as:

• Risk identification and measurement in relation to FX, interest rates and commodities 

• Developing good-fit risk management objectives and strategies, aligned with market changes and new developments

• Designing trading activities, including governance framework, policies, processes, controls, monitoring and reporting

• Developing valuation techniques for hedging instruments

• Training to management and employees

Accounting framework defines accounting for financial instruments and hedging of exposures while valuation has become a separate specialisation in its own right. 

We can help you manage accounting change, achieve compliance and mitigate risk in relation to your Treasury or financial risk exposures and transactions by:

• Preparing independent valuations for organisations

• Providing hedge accounting advisory

• Evaluating requirements and assisting in the development of solutions for compliance with accounting standards.
  
  

Cash and liquidity management are at the heart of corporate treasury management. Increasingly, the focus is on internal processes including payment/receivables factories, in-house banking solutions and trade finance.

Given the dynamic marketplace of banking and technology vendors, new solutions surface frequently. We assist in evaluating new processes to help improve visibility, control, cost and predictability by:

• Evaluating and selecting the right banking partners and services

• Developing and implementing a robust and dynamic cash forecasting programme

• Designing and implementing in-house banking, payment factory, pooling and netting structures

• Enhancing the effectiveness of your performance reporting

Technology is an enabler - not a solution in its own right. Proper tool selection is one success factor. Alignment of process and technology and correct implementation and integration are equally important for successful deployment.

We can help you develop your technology strategy, define functional requirements and preferred systems and implement and integrate systems across treasury functions and geographies to enhance efficiency, control and resource utilisation. Here are some areas where we can support you:

• Developing technology vision and strategy

• Defining functional requirements and preferred systems

• Implementing and integrating systems across treasury and commodity risk activities and geographies
  
  

Enhanced oversight and controls over key treasury and commodity risk activities:

• Reviewing policies and procedures to close gaps, including cybersecurity, fraud risk and internal controls; and 

• Providing internal audit support