Risk Management

Reduce overall enterprise risk, improve resiliency to risk events, and meet government reporting requirements

Overview

Chief financial officers and chief risk officers understand the value of identifying, assessing, managing and optimizing business risks. These leaders need to take a holistic approach that integrates business risk management and performance management, including compliance where required, as part of the overall business strategy and execution. Trends in globalization, new regulations, shorter response times and increased business complexity have brought the importance of risk to the forefront, placing an additional burden on the already busy finance agenda and on senior risk management executives.

IBM risk management services are designed to help organizations evolve from basic compliance and ad-hoc responses, to optimized business risk management, in which the value of risk management far outweighs the costs. IBM enables organizations to reduce overall enterprise risk, improve resiliency to risk events, and meet government reporting requirements. Our services include:

• Operational risk management: Help clients model the potential economic and social impact of significant operational risk events, including operational risk data analytic platforms, complex "tail event" modeling systems, risk control self assessment solutions, and IT risk control management platforms.
• Data-driven solutions: Leverage data driven solutions to improve governance and compliance practices including Basel II, CRDW and analytics, convergence (Op Risk/Comp./CRM), and others.
• Financial crimes: Assist clients with the selection, design, implementation and tuning of fraud prevention, detection and analytic systems and anti-money laundering compliance programs and systems.
• Controls integration: Provide the IBM business systems controls approach which contains four components: application security controls, business process controls, data quality/integrity controls and IT general controls (ITGC).
• ERM strategy through execution: Develop an enterprise-wide risk management strategy through identification of risks, quantification, risk ranking, and determination of strategy to address high priority risks and identify process and technology changes that are required.
• Risk modeling & capital management: Provide specialty services in risk modeling targeting regulatory and economic modeling mandates (capacity on demand for complex analytics, risk process optimization and ORAM, & model rsk and validation services).

Business challenges

Business leaders today are addressing many challenges and opportunities in today's growingly complex finance, operational, and market environments, including:

• Integrating risk and compliance management into an overall business strategy and execution roadmap
• Understanding how to best address regulatory and legal requirements, especially as regulations change and are introduced across the globe
• Identifying risks of all sizes, including smaller or independent risks that may pose a very large threat to the enterprise
• Defining opportunities to streamline reporting for greater accuracy, and leveraging predictive capabilities to better identify, mitigate, and respond to risk events
• Transforming your organization with faster, more robust processes that help mitigate risk event effects across the enterprise, including incentives, measurements, controls, governance and culture.

Why IBM

With thousands of risk and financial management resources located across the globe, IBM has a strong record of serving as a trusted advisor to CFOs, CROs, and finance leaders. We offer deep finance function expertise coupled with effective technology implementation and integration capability. We bring experienced IBM finance executives to meet with clients, including former CFOs, controllers and CIOs.

Our risk and financial management consultants help clients achieve new and sustainable business value by formulating finance management strategies, managing change, and setting direction for new transformations and business models. Working collaboratively with clients, we provide solutions to many of the most difficult finance and risk challenges your organization is confronted with, providing expert analysis, business planning, vision development, project planning, business case creation, and ultimately linking strategy to execution in ways that build continuous improvement and success.

The IBM risk and financial management practice is part of IBM Global Business Services™, one of the world's leading management consulting practices. Working across all major sectors, IBM has inherent business expertise across more than a dozen industries. Our consultants have demonstrated experience creating value for clients, and together with our proven assets, methodology, partnerships, and research capabilities, we act as trusted business advisors to our clients worldwide.

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