Risk and Compliance Advisory
We offer comprehensive advisory services to help businesses navigate risks, ensure
regulatory compliance, and enhance operational resilience. Our solutions are designed to
address the evolving challenges faced by organizations today. Our Risk and Compliance Advisory Services includes:
Internal Control
Our Internal Control services focus on strengthening governance frameworks to ensure effective oversight and operational efficiency. We assist in identifying risks, designing, and implementing internal controls that align with business goals and regulatory requirements, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. Whether it's control testing, remediation, or process improvements, our team ensures robust risk management practices across your organization.
ESG Management
To achieve sustainable growth, businesses must promptly identify, prioritize, and effectively respond to various risks and opportunities.Our ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Management services provide diverse insights that help clients continuously generate financial performance and strengthen their license to operate from stakeholders by addressing the various risks and opportunities their business faces.
Strong understanding of Company business
Understanding of accounting issues of the Company
Experience of external audit and various services in relevant industry
Extensive understanding and experience of global organization
Former Big 4 auditors with control testing experience
Integrated audit experience
SOX & IT control experts
Response to external auditors’ concern
Conduct follow-up on various issues that occur after implementation
of internal control process
Long-term plan to support the Standardized internal control process
Provide SOX training to stakeholders
Understand the business process
Leverage our in-depth understanding of various industries and experiences
Review/prepare company's internal control documents, such as RCM (Risk-Control Matrix), Flowchart, Narrative Documents
Perform risk assessments to ensure there are no major gap from external auditor’s perspective
Walkthrough identified key controls and perform test of design
Ensure controls are properly designed to mitigate the risks
Recommend improvements for any design gap
Perform operating effectiveness testing
Test full sample size based on control frequency
Assist with remediation efforts to address any control deficiencies
Document test results to meet external auditor’s requirement
ssist management responding to the inquiries related to Internal Control audit
LEK Partners provides full-spanning services, from planning ESG management to communicating
the company’s ESG performance. We also customize our offerings to better serve our clients'
endeavors to increase their sustainability.
Our ESG Planning Services help clients benchmark against peers and ensure readiness for new regulations,
closing performance gaps and mitigating risks through strategic, actionable plans.
Our ESG Benchmarking service identifies peer companies with similar business profiles and compares their ESG planning, execution, and communication scores. We then help clients set targets to close gaps with leaders and develop actionable plans.
Identify peers with similar business profiles and market positions.
Evaluate peer companies's ESG management practices.
Compare the client's ESG efforts with peer scores.
Identify gaps and set targets to close them.
Prioritize targets and develop a detailed improvement plan.
Our ESG Readiness Review service identifies upcoming standards and regulations, assesses client compliance, and helps prioritize actions to mitigate risks and close gaps in ESG performance.
identify new or upcoming ESG standards and regulations.
Analyze key ESG-related requirements of identified standards.
Assess client's ESG compliance with these requirements.
Identify non-compliance aresa and analyze associated risks.
Prioritize targets and develop a comprehensive risk mitigation plan.
Our ESG Performing Services convert client targets into prioritized actions based on "Double Materiality" and crafts
tailored stakeholder engagement strategies to enhance financial, environmental, and social performance.
Our ESG Prioritization service transforms stakeholder requirements or client targets into actionable items and evaluates their impacts using the "Double Materiality" approach, to give our clients insights on what to respond first.
Identify internal/external ESG requirements and develop action items.
For each action item identified, assess below:
The impact on the company's short-term & medium-to-long-term ESG performance.
The compan's influence on internal & external communities and the natural environment.
Prioritize items based on impact and client readiness.
Our Stakeholder Engagement service identifies key stakeholders, evaluates their influence and interest, and designs tailored engagement channels to effectively respond to their input for our clients to improve their ESG performances.
Identify stakeholders impacting on or impacted by business.
Assess influence and ninterest levels of each stakeholder group.
Select high-importance stakeholders based on influence and interest.
Design engagement channels for high-importance stakeholders.
Develop respones plans based on stakeholder input.
Our ESG Perceiving Services convert ensure robust compliance by verifying client disclosures and evaluating practices
through detailed due diligence, enabling continuous improvement on client's ESG practices and communications.
Our ESG Disclosure Assurance service scopes client disclosure drafts, analyzes compliance with reporting standards, adopts verification methods, and provides thorough assurance reports along with additional recommendations for improvement.
Receive ESG disclosure drafts and determine assurance scope.
Analyze assurance topics against relevant disclosure standards. (e.g., GRI, IFRS, ESRS, etc.)
Design assurance approach using applicable assurance standards. (e.g., ISSA 5000).
Conduct assurance and deliver comprehensive assurance report.
Provide recommendations based on assurance findings.
Our ESG Practice Due Diligence service identifies compliance requirements, develops due diligence tools, conducts site evaluations, and provides detailed reports with remediation plans for significant deficiencies.
Identify compliance requirements of laws, standards, and policies.
Create checklists and questionnaires for due diligence assessment.
Select entities and schedule due diligence evaluations.
Conduct on-site evaluations and compile findings into a report.
Obtain action plans for deficiencies and conduct follow-ups.
We leverage our expertise in corporate disclosure and ESG topics to help our clients effectively convey essential
sustainability information to key stakeholders and drive feedback to continuously achieve its sustainable growth.
Our Sustainability Reporting service identifies key stakeholders, selects significant disclosure topics, adopts relevant reporting standards, and prepares comprehensive reports, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs and jurisdictional requirements.
Identify stakeholds needing information on ESG performance and governance.
Select disclosure topics based on stakeholder significance and materiality.
Adopt reporting standards tailored to stakeholder needs and juisdictional requirements.
Prepare the sustainavility report and obtain assurance for credibility.
While LEK doesn’t offer a full-scope Carbon Accounting, we provide basic Scope 1 & 2 estimation services for limited facilities with available energy data, aiding urgent stakeholder disclosure needs until specialized providers are engaged.
LEK generally does not offer comprehensive Carbon Accounting Services because energy and engineering related technical expertise are required in equipment and utility planning.
We are able to provide basic Scope 1 & 2 carbon accounting services for specific types and scopes of facilities with sufficient energy usage data.
For facilities has energy usage information, we identify and apply suitable emission factors to calculate or estimate their Scope 1 & 2 greenhouse gas emissions.
LEK assists clients in identifying and transitioning to specialized carbon accounting service providers, for clients to enhance their readiness to carbon disclosure.
* While we do not offer full-scope Carbon Accounting service, we can
provide draft Scope 1 & 2 estimation services for facilities with energy
consumptions data available, aiding urgent stakeholder disclosure needs
until specialized service providers are engaged.
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