Governance and Risk Advisory Services

At Moore Australia, we help you to create processes and policies that provide clarity and accountability across your organisation.

Policies and procedures provide a roadmap for the day-to-day operations of an entity. They ensure compliance with laws and regulations, streamline internal processes and give guidance for decision-making – and importantly, provide a shared understanding of appropriate behaviours, outcomes and organisational expectations.

At Moore Australia, we partner with you to strengthen your approach to driving accountability throughout your business. We can help you to establish corporate policies and procedures that step out the responsibilities and accountabilities of individuals, teams, departments and committees, ensuring all employees understand the actions and results required of them.

We’ll support you to develop new policies and procedures where required while evaluating your existing processes and ways of working. We’ll guide you to build and implement a robust strategy, framework and monitoring approach that will enable you to meet your commercial objectives.

We can also assist with establishing charters and codes of conducts that clearly define the roles and responsibilities and outcome targets of committees, and support you to monitor, report and improve behaviours and outcomes.

At Moore Australia, we help you to evaluate and build the capability and effectiveness of your board.

An organisation’s board has a critical role to play in the success of that business. As the pace of corporate change accelerates, boards must be able to recognise and meet challenges while identifying and exploiting opportunities to ensure the success and growth of their business.

At Moore Australia, we work with companies to support their boards and directors to build their capability in the areas of strategy, risk and governance. Many boards are limited in their ability to access an independent view of that organisation’s financial situation, performance and risk profile. Our expertise is providing a thorough, unbiased and commercially-sound overview of these aspects to support informed and confident decision making.

Today’s, a high-performing board must operate with many stakeholders in mind and an appreciation of their collective and individual responsibilities to these groups. Juggling the diverse – and sometimes competing – needs of investors, senior leaders, employees, customers and the wider community requires substantial skill, focus and agility.

We’ll partner with you to review and improve your governance framework and systems, evaluate the strengths and development areas of your board, and embed systems, processes and tools that support a more robust approach to board meetings and reporting.

At Moore Australia, we work with you to drive business outcomes by embedding more efficient and effective ways of working.

The digitisation of businesses and changing customer expectations are rapidly reshaping the way organisations operate. Many business processes that are central to the way companies work today didn’t exist two or five years ago. Constant change to existing processes – and the creation of many new ones – provides organisations with the agility they need to be competitive. However, it’s essential that as companies grow, they ensure that their operational processes continue to be well designed and properly managed.

At Moore Australia, we work with you to integrate business processes that create synergies, eliminate duplication and reduce costs and risk across your organisation. We’ll review your current ways of working and identify improvement opportunities across your business.

We’ll help you to create and update process maps and procedure manuals, review existing process controls, and support you to optimise business performance while managing risk appropriately.

Our governance and risk advisory specialists work closely with international business process improvement experts from our vast global network. These relationships allow us to provide valued insights regarding benchmarking and emerging approaches to best practice and innovation in business process management.

At Moore Australia, we partner with you to develop and enhance your organisation’s approach to financial risk management.

Financial risk management is a critical aspect for any successful business. By taking a strategic and proactive approach to identifying and planning for potential risks, companies can maximise profits and avoid losses due to unexpected events. Importantly, sound financial risk management doesn’t just focus on possible issues – it also allows organisations to forecast and act upon opportunities.

At Moore Australia, we support you to take a comprehensive view of financial risk management and the challenges, threats and opportunities that are inherent in your business and market. We’ll work with you to create a risk appetite statement and risk framework tailored to your organisation, and help you to assess aspects including funding, capital investments, staffing, major projects and acquisitions and divestments with regard to their potential financial risk impacts.

Navigating financial markets is a key focus of financial risk management. We can support you to build your capability in identifying, evaluating, monitoring and responding to financial risk within your organisation and more broadly. While risk can never be completely avoided, a robust financial risk management approach will help you to maintain a profitable business and avoid financial pitfalls that could result in disaster.

At Moore Australia, we help you to strengthen your governance approach and manage your risk exposure while growing your business.

The increasingly global nature of business, rapid technological change and more stringent regulatory requirements mean that a robust approach to governance and risk management is a business imperative in today’s market. Many organisations are grappling with the challenge of remaining competitive and meeting expanded stakeholder expectations while managing risk appropriately.

At Moore Australia, we can help you to review and strengthen your governance framework and systems to ensure they support a sound approach to risk management and promote ethical decision making and employee behaviour. From evaluating the composition of your board to reviewing the skills and experience of individual directors, identifying governance gaps and conducting training for senior members of staff, we can provide practical and actional advice.

We help businesses of all sizes to identify and manage their risk exposure while staying focused on their strategy and commercial objectives. We take an integrated and commercially-minded approach, considering aspects including financial, strategic, operational, political and reputational risk.

We can help you to prepare comprehensive business continuity, crisis management and disaster recovery plans, and support you to execute these if they’re required.

At Moore Australia, we take a whole-of-organisation approach to assessing your risk and control environment and ensuring you’re positioned for success.   

As companies, markets and the competitive landscape continue to evolve, the winners will be the organisations that demonstrate a willingness to reshape and innovate. In today’s hyper-competitive business environment, savvy companies recognise that a strong continuous improvement focus and drive to operate more efficiently and effectively can be a crucial differentiator.

At Moore Australia, we can support your organisation with a full-scope internal audit that provides confidence about your existing operations and identifies ways to drive value into the future. We’ll review your internal controls, governance and accounting approaches to ensure they’re compliant, but our internal audit focus goes beyond that.

We believe that a thorough independent audit can deliver significant strategic value, supporting you to drive performance and meet your commercial objectives. We’ll help you to benchmark your performance and identify best practice opportunities, key business risks and potential market challenges.

A best practice internal audit delivers benefits across your organisation, not just to your board and audit committee. We partner with you to help you realise this value.

At Moore Australia, we work alongside you to ensure your policies and procedures support and enable your company’s success.

Your policies and procedures are the rules by which your organisation operates. They communicate and define roles, responsibilities and accountabilities, providing employees with a guideline for acceptable behaviour which allows them to do their jobs while working within the parameters of your company’s risk appetite.

At Moore Australia, we can ensure your organisation’s policies and procedures lay the foundation for your company’s ongoing success. Whether you need new guidelines drafted to reflect an operational or technology change, or need to synthesise the policies of two organisations following an acquisition or merger, we can help you to develop and embed an approach that makes sure everyone is working towards the same goal.

We’re specialists at developing policies that are relevant, straightforward and concise. We can support you with a framework to regularly communicate and reinforce your policies to your employees, and build a strong policy and procedure focus into your induction process.

Our broad sector expertise allows us to benchmark your current approach and suggest best-practice improvements to boost the effectiveness of your policies and procedures.

You’ll also have access to international risk assurance specialists from our vast global network which has offices in over 100 countries.

At Moore Australia, we partner with you to enhance the management and delivery of major projects and transformation programs.

Businesses are facing an unprecedented level of change. Rapid technological advancement, growing global competition and changing consumer and market expectations are some of the forces driving business transformation efforts. Major projects can deliver significant new opportunities for organisations, but if not managed properly, they can become costly outings that fail to deliver on objectives.At Moore Australia, we work with you to navigate the business transformation journey and realise the aspirations of your major projects. From concept to project planning, implementation and closure, we provide specialist project management consulting services at every stage of the project lifecycle.We can assist with establishing project scope and timings, including building comprehensive business cases and gathering customer and market insights. We’ll support you to embed project management standards and a governance structure that will enable your project or program to deliver to plan.

We provide hands-on support at project delivery and implementation and can work with you to ensure project achievements are sustained into the future via a robust monitoring and reporting framework.

Our project management specialists have significant expertise in guiding project and program boards and managing diverse stakeholder groups both within and outside the organisation.

At Moore Australia, we support you to proactively identify and manage your most significant strategic risks.

Today’s organisations are more complex than ever before. The forces that are enabling business evolution are the same factors that are driving a complicated risk landscape.

Technology is supporting us to be more efficient, effective and productive. However, it’s also leading to significant disruption by enabling competitors and start-ups to carve out and take control of niches that we hadn’t previously considered. History is littered with examples of companies that faced strategic risk and failed to adapt.

At Moore Australia, we partner with you to evaluate your corporate strategy and assess the risk inherent in your operations. We’ll consider aspects including shifts in market and customer demographics, changing regulatory requirements, disruptive innovation and unexpected competitor actions, and evaluate the impact these may have on the effectiveness of your strategy and organisation’s value.

We’ll support you to proactively manage strategic risk to create sustainable growth and build value. Our sector expertise and holistic approach to enterprise-wide risk management allow us to identify emerging and future risks that may threaten your strategic plan, and help you build monitoring of these risks into your business plan and risk management framework.

At Moore Australia, we partner with you to build your understanding and management of technology risk.

As technology reshapes the world we live in and the pace of technological advancement increases exponentially, managing technology risk is an increasingly complex and important consideration for businesses. Whether driven by external forces or originating from within your organisation, the pervasiveness of technology change means that better understanding technology risk – and how to manage it effectively – is a business imperative.

At Moore Australia, we help you to strengthen your capability in technology risk assurance. We can help you to build a deep understanding of the technology risks inherent in your business strategy and ways of working, and ensure that your risk management and governance approach support robust protection of your networks, systems and data.

We’ll work with you to strengthen your technology risk resilience by designing and implementing tailored controls over your technology assets, and showing you how to predict and detect threats in real-time and respond to them swiftly and effectively.

Our technology experts have comprehensive cross-sector experience in developing and implementing technology solutions that are business-focused, enable agility, and take a considered and wide-reaching approach to risk.