TCS Internal Financial Controls Services
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Highlights
- For banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) firms, internal financial controls are crucial for operational stability.
- However, financial services firms are faced with challenges such as inadequate documentation, control deficiencies, and insufficient SOPs in this regard.
- TCS Internal Financial Controls Services address all facets of financial control, from assessment to control testing and designing revenue cycle management.
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Overview
Internal control systems are essential for the smooth functioning of an organization in a fast-paced business environment.
And internal financial controls make for a crucial component in this mechanism. They are necessary for assuring stakeholders about a business's robust financial health. From aiding decision-making and ensuring legal compliance to mitigating financial risks, the role of internal financial controls in guaranteeing operational stability is critical. Recognizing this, most banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) organizations are looking to transform their internal financial controls function, which is currently manual and disintegrated.
TCS Internal Financial Controls Services enable BFSI organizations across all facets of financial control – from assessment to control testing to designing revenue cycle management. With this offering, BFSI enterprises can enhance control design and ensure regulatory compliance, thereby driving business excellence.
Challenge
Internal financial control is challenged by issues such as inadequate documentation practices, control deficiencies, and insufficient SOPs.
Additionally, the reliance on manual processes results in poor controls, leading to regulatory strictures, financial penalties, and loss of reputation. Despite significant spending on key functions such as control testing and sampling, BFSI organizations realize limited or no returns on the investment. Compounding these challenges is the increasing oversight of regulatory agencies, driving enterprises to reimagine their internal financial controls framework to one that is standardized, automated, and cost-effective.
TCS provides a range of services, including control advisory, control transformation, and continuous control monitoring and oversight (see Figure 1). In addition to leveraging cognitive automation, TCS’ offering utilizes collaborative insights from various vendor partners in the industry, including COIN™ partners, along with a rich library of internal financial reporting collaterals such as training material, reusable test cases and functional architecture, and success stories.
Our solution
TCS helps transform and modernize the internal financial controls function.
Our services span the following areas:
- Risk management: Identify control function threats using a risk control matrix (RCM) and detailed process flowcharts.
- Gap analysis: Evaluate existing financial controls and processes, areas of improvement, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) in alignment with the internal finance controls framework.
- Monitoring and oversight: Manage increasing BFSI regulatory demands by implementing a finance controls center of excellence (CoE).
- Control transformation: Reimagine control function by harnessing automation tools and defining target operating models.
Benefits
With TCS’ services, BFSI firms can establish an agile and adaptive internal financial controls function.
Key benefits are:
- Accelerated turnaround time: Realize quicker turnaround in financial functions with controls automation and assurance.
- Operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness: Improve audit trail and reporting through exhaustive control validation and design testing. Achieve low-cost control function and realize savings.
- Zero regulatory penalties: Improve regulatory compliance and minimize sanctions using superior control advisory.
- Proficiency enhancement: Boost personnel skill development for customers’ teams, with focused internal finance control training.
The TCS advantage
TCS leverages its domain expertise and collaborative experiences with clients across the BFSI industry.
By partnering with TCS, BFSI institutions can benefit from:
- Emerging technologies: Through pioneering progress in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), TCS enables the holistic transformation of the actuarial process.
- Talent pool: TCS boasts of a proficient team of certified accountants, certified domain consultants, and certified public accountants (CPA) that provides superior consulting and operations support to global BFSI organizations.
- Comprehensive internal controls: Ability to deliver end-to-end internal financial controls services comprising assessment, control transformation, and testing, along with business as usual (BAU) and application management services (AMS).