Advisory Services

Regulatory & Compliance (R&C)

Techaris provides Regulatory & Compliance consulting services for our clients through our expert Regulatory & Compliance service offerings.

Organizations in heavily regulated industries are facing consistently tightening controls on how they conduct business. Whether you are a public sector organization, bank, financial institution, investment advisor, or publicly traded company, Techaris Consulting can provide guidance that blends legal expertise and industry experience.

Techaris R&C practice team delivers insightful, practical, and comprehensive solutions including creative design and implementation of compliance management systems, specialized skills training, and evaluation of existing systems and processes. Using a customized approach, our R&C consultants scrutinize and evaluate each organization’s unique situation to provide the most accurate and effective solution for your R&C needs.

Techaris R&C consultants provide their expertise in the analysis of both federal and state regulatory prerequisites, and assist in meeting regulatory burdens as well as providing training and instruction on current and future requirements. Our R&C methodology is an industry-leading one that combines a deep understanding of required regulations, agency interpretation, and industry best practices.

Techaris has successfully offered to several of our clients tailor-made solutions in the following areas:

1. 1. 1. Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
      2. Retail, lending, and operational regulatory compliance audit and monitoring reviews
      3. Bank regulatory compliance services
      4. Compliance risk assessments
      5. Compliance management system development and/or evaluation
      6. Customized compliance officer training
      7. IT evaluation audit
      8. Customized institutional practice compliance training
      9. Specialty project engagements
      10. Retainer/research engagements

Risk Management (RM)

Techaris Risk Management practice and its team is equipped with experienced consultants who have delivered proven strategies and solutions to our clients.

Risk Management is the process of identifying, assessing and controlling threats to an organization’s operations and its bottom line. Our unique, industry-specific approach allows us to address risks from a holistic standpoint. We thoroughly analyze all kinds of threats including IT security threats and data-related risks, and design appropriate risk management strategies to alleviate them.

We take a structured approach to assess risks specific to your organization. This includes the collection, identification, categorization, prioritization, and mapping of risks to align with your organization’s business objectives and strategy. The result is a strategic organizational risk map.

Some of the strategic and critical engagements with our clients have been in the following areas:

1. 1. 1. Enterprise Risk Management Solutions
      2. Cyber Security
      3. Data Analytics and Management
      4. Collaboration Management
      5. Organizational Accountability

IT Governance (ITG)

IT Governance is a process used to monitor and control key information technology capability decisions. The purpose of any effective IT governance is to ensure the delivery of business value to key stakeholders throughout the organization with the optimum use of IT resources.

IT governance does not exist in a vacuum – it is the joint responsibility of executives and the board of directors, and consists of leadership, organizational structures, and processes that ensure that your organization’s IT sustains and extends your organization’s strategies and objectives.

Techaris’ IT Governance service offerings reflect our philosophy of integration and is embedded in our approach to our clients’ IT governance challenges. Our approach is not only holistic, practical, and effective but it is designed to leverage the synergies, inter-dependencies, and value that is inherent in its components.

Our IT Governance engagements have added significant value to our clients and is a cornerstone to our advisory services offerings. Our ITG consultants are certified and experienced in industry-leading frameworks such as COBIT, ITIL, COSO, CMMI, and FAIR which enable them to partner with our clients effectively to design and deploy scalable, enterprise, and robust solutions for their IT governance challenges.

Some of the more interesting IT governance projects have included the following areas:

1. 1. 1. IT Governance Strategy formulation and deployment
      2. IT Governance Solutions – industry specific
      3. IT Service Management
      4. IT Program Governance and Structure
      5. IT Project and Portfolio Management