Solutions

Corporate Treasury

Our clients increasingly face foreign exchange, commodity, and liquidity risks in volatile and competitive markets. They are also impacted by regulatory changes, as well as an increasingly automated treasury environment delivering efficiencies and better control mechanisms with new technologies.

Our Corporate Treasury Advisory team consists of experts who leverage their extensive treasury and risk management experience to serve a broad range of corporate clients across every industry sector. We support the Treasurer and the CFO, advising on treasury strategy, governance and reporting, accounting, cash management and risk management in a corporate setting with our cross functional team.

Through Assurance, we work with our clients in the Middle East on:

Governance and Reporting

We provide specialist independent advice and assist management on all aspects of the governance and control environment for the Treasury function. This includes governance structure and reporting requirements, delegation of authority matrix design and its implementation, controls assurance, controls framework review, controls monitoring, end-to-end process and controls review, and controls benchmarking. Additionally, we provide treasury specialist support on internal audits.

Risk management, strategy and operations

We help treasurers identify and quantify their exposure to financial risks, determine appropriate risk management strategies and policies, and help quantify the economic implications of specific treasury transactions. We also help the treasury function itself run more efficiently.

Treasury Accounting

We provide practical accounting solutions from assessment to implementation including transaction support, accounting & valuations, implementation of new standards and treasury accounting outsourcing. We support clients on debt issuances or restructures, derivative restructures, hedge accounting and FX accounting. We prepare management position papers and provide specialist accounting opinions.

Valuations

We assist with determining appropriate valuation methodologies for financial instruments, performing valuations as part of a managed service and working with A&AM to develop models to perform valuations.

Cash Management

We assist our clients in the selection and implementation of cash management solutions, efficient cash pooling framework, optimizing working capital, assessment on the working capital needs, cash forecasting and development of analytics and forecasting tools to understand liquidity issues and support decisions on financing.

You can read our corporate treasury survey here.