Data & Analytics for Assurance & Advisory
We design and deploy data & AI solutions for assurance and advisory—spanning risk assessment, scoping, testing, continuous auditing and control monitoring, with GenAI where it adds value.
Trusted insight. Measurable results.
We align to leading assurance and IT governance practices — while preserving third‑line independence.
What we deliver:
- Build-and-review evidence packs aligned to PCAOB/ISA documentation
- Reusable analytics, automated sampling, and continuous control monitoring
- Governed AI/ML: approved features, monitored models, and guard-railed GenAI copilots
- Framework alignment, guidance, and quality programme mapping
- Embedded analytics across the lifecycle—from planning and risk assessment to reporting
Our Service Models
Discover Data and analytics services that flex to your priorities, scale with your growth, and deliver predictive, real-time insight.
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Audit Analytics
Value Proposition: Transform assurance with analytics and AI—spanning risk assessment, scoping, testing, and continuous assurance.
Delivered Benefits:
- Define analytics strategy; design TOM and roadmap; establish governance, standards and QA; implement tools
- Dynamic risk scoping from internal and external signals, anomaly detection, sampling optimisation and analytical procedures
- Automated analytics with evidence packs (JE, AP, T&E, vendor, payroll, access)
- Repeatable, review-ready working papers aligned to your audit platform
- Continuous monitoring with thresholds, drift detection and routed alerts
GRC Analytics (Incl. SOX/ICFR)
Value Proposition: Strengthen financial reporting controls and enterprise governance with data-led testing, continuous control indicators, and evidence-backed maturity dashboards.
Delivered Benefits:
- Control gap analysis across P2P, O2C, payroll, treasury, and ITGC
- Segregation-of-Duties analytics and access reviews with attestation evidence
- ERM metrics and heatmaps; third-party and supplier risk signals
- Faster walkthroughs/testing via standardised rules; automation and control rationalisation
- GRC platform integrations (ServiceNow, Archer, SAP GRC, AuditBoard)
Finance Analytics
Value Proposition: Measure, control, and optimise financial management with analytics and AI—building an agile, responsive finance function.
Delivered Benefits:
- Performance management: driver-based dashboards, variance and root-cause analysis
- Working capital & liquidity: dynamic discounting, cash-pooling optimisation, cash forecasts
- Automated reconciliations, faster close, straight-through processing, and exception routing
- Early-warning risk indicators (credit/ foreclosure), tax gap analytics, and embedded audit controls
- Scenario-led capital budgeting and portfolio optimisation
Compliance and Risk Analytics
Value Proposition: Measure, monitor and meet compliance and risk obligations with analytics and AI. We surface financial, operational and regulatory risks in core processes using anomaly detection and process reviews, and build scalable controls for data protection, privacy and data quality.
Delivered Benefits:
- Dynamic risk assessment and scoping across internal and external drivers
- Turn risk and internal audit into insight engines and trusted advisors, with reduced cost
- Simplified regulatory workflows with improved quality
- Early-warning indicators to detect emerging threats and reduce losses
- Fraud and financial crime analytics toolkit
Customer Analytics
Value Proposition: Enhance the customer lifecycle, sales and pricing, and overall experience with analytics and AI. We combine customer-level sales and interaction data with competitor and market signals to reveal behavioural patterns and drive profitable growth.
Delivered Benefits:
- Acquire and retain customers with propensity and churn models, next-best action/offer, and network insights to curb leakage
- Increase customer value with CLV, share of wallet, and targeted cross-sell and up-sell
- Optimise pricing with elasticity and conjoint analysis; maximise margins with promotion guidance
- Increase campaign ROI with channel-mix and attribution analytics to focus spend
- Personalise at scale via behavioural/value-based segmentation and journey analytics
Supply Chain Analytics
Value Proposition: Create an agile, resilient supply chain with analytics and AI. Connect data across the value chain to optimise performance, improve decisions, monitor risk, predict disruptions, and speed recovery.
Delivered Benefits:
- Control-tower visibility and exception management for operational excellence
- Demand forecasting and S&OP to align capacity and right-size inventory
- Production optimisation (dispatcher/ assignment, cutting-stock, constraint-based scheduling)
- Network and routing optimisation (route allocation, replenishment, transport planning)
- Resilience and cost reduction via risk monitoring, predictive alerts, and scenario simulation
Industries We Support
Governance, standards, and independence by design
Why: Highly regulated, data intensive operations
Focus: Regulatory and risk analytics, KYC and AML, customer and pricing analytics, lineage and controls
Why: Sensitive data and complex ecosystems
Focus: Interoperability and FHIR or HL7 integration, patient flow and outcomes analytics, trial and safety analytics, privacy and data quality
Why: Resident data and supplier risk
Focus: Demand forecasting, case and outcomes analytics, supplier performance, linked data governance and assurance
Why: Distributed systems and diverse data sources
Focus: Enrolment forecasting, retention and progression analytics, learning analytics, data governance and quality
Why: Payments exposure and rapid demand shifts
Focus: Customer, pricing and promotion analytics, attribution and channel mix, fraud detection, inventory and fulfilment optimisation
Why: Cloud native growth under scrutiny
Focus: Real time metrics and risk, product analytics, investor and regulator ready reporting, modern data platforms and pipelines, model governance
How Our Analytics Service Works
A delivery model built for assurance — evidence-first, measurable outcomes at every stage, in four simple steps.
Why Choose Global Forum Consulting?
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Standards-aligned Analytics
Map risk assessment and testing to recognised audit standards for defensible outcomes
Evidence-ready
Auto-generate review packs and export to your audit platform.
Continuous Assurance
Monitor controls and transactions with thresholds, alerts and drift checks
Audit Data Standards
Reuse common schemas for JE, AP, T&E, vendor, payroll and access
Model Governance
Document, validate and monitor models with clear rationale
Efficient & Low Disruption
Fast to deploy, integrates with your stack, with reusable models, pipelines and automation to cut noise and cost