Consulting & Advisory

OUR SERVICES

FINANCIAL STRATEGY

The financial strategy topics indicated herein below in this document outlines our absolute focus on each of the following key areas:

  1. Asset Financing Strategy
  2. Working Capital Management Strategy
  3. Foreign Exchange Management Strategy
  4. Tax
  5. Cost Management
  6. Risk Management Strategy
  7. Internal Accounting Policies and Procedures
  8. Finance Organization Structure
  9. Relevant Guiding Standards, and
  10. Code of Business Conduct

CONTRACTOR QUALITY, HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT PLAN

  • Criteria for sourcing and prequalification
  • Mandating suppliers through contracts
  • Audits and impromptu visits to suppliers
  • Training – both internal and for suppliers and partners
  • Risk management system

PROCUREMENT RISK AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT

  1. Risk and change awareness culture
  2. Presence of a SCM risk register
  3. Risk champions per section
  4. Responsibility allocation and ownership creation
  5. Regular trainings on risk and change management
  6. Business case and senior management support
  7. Contract risk management
  8. Supplier failure risk management
    • Early warning screening systems
    • Troubled supplier risk assessment
    • Distressed supplier management
  9. Cost effectiveness of the process

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) PROCUREMENT COMMITMENT

  1. Ethics and ethical trading, supplier code of conduct
  2. Environmental Responsibility
  3. Human rights
  4. Equal opportunities
  5. Diversity
  6. Corporate governance
  7. Economic sustainability
  8. Measurement of impact on society

SUBCONTRACTOR MANAGEMENT

  1. Clear contract terms, conditions and SMART objectives
  2. Subcontractor code of conduct to be signed, indicating ethical and compliant ways of working
  3. Requirement for their workforce to comprise at least 75 % nationals
  4. Requirement to use 100% locally made materials in construction
  5. Mandatory requirement to put in place policies on QHSE that among other things, adhere to ISO standards 9001, 14001 and QHSE - OHSAS 18001
  6. Impromptu audits and checks, to check for compliance, especially to national content and QHSE
  7. Periodic performance measurement, followed by meetings to agree improvement actions and timelines, where ever deemed necessary.