Compliance · Business Risk
Business Risk Advisory Services in Dubai
Understand the risks that could hurt your business and the controls that should stop them. We assess risk across operations, finance, fraud, third parties, continuity and compliance, and give you a prioritised plan to act on.
- Risk Register & Heat Map
- Internal Control Design
- Prioritised Action Plan
Licensed by Dubai DET · Licence 1394564
At a glance
- Every key risk rated, owned and tracked
- Register
- Likelihood and impact shown at a glance
- Heat map
- Matrix linking each key risk to its control
- Controls
- Prioritised actions with owners and target dates
- Plan
Know which risks matter before they cost you
Most businesses carry more risk than they have written down: a supplier you cannot replace, payments one person can approve alone, contracts nobody tracks, systems with no backup, regulatory duties that changed last year. Without a structured view, controls end up where problems happened before rather than where the next one is likely. Banks, investors, auditors and regulators increasingly expect to see that risks have been identified, owned and managed.
We run a structured risk assessment with your management team, building a risk register that rates each risk by likelihood and impact and shows it on a heat map. We then review the controls in place, design the ones that are missing, and look specifically at fraud, third-party, continuity and compliance risk. This is advisory work that helps you design and improve controls — internal audit, by contrast, gives independent assurance that they operate.
Key facts
- Every key risk rated, owned and tracked
- Register
- Likelihood and impact shown at a glance
- Heat map
- Matrix linking each key risk to its control
- Controls
- Prioritised actions with owners and target dates
- Plan
Everything covered in Risk Advisory
The concrete scope our team delivers, grouped the way we actually run your file.
Risk Assessment
A structured view of what could go wrong and how much it matters.
- Enterprise risk assessment
- Risk register and rating scale
- Heat map and risk profile
- Compliance risk review
- Board and management reporting
Controls & Fraud
Designing the controls that address your key risks.
- Internal control design
- Control matrix
- Segregation of duties review
- Fraud risk assessment
- Approval limits and authority matrix
Resilience & Third Parties
The risks that sit beyond your own processes.
- Third-party and vendor risk review
- Supplier due diligence approach
- Business continuity planning
- Key person and system dependency review
- Prioritised action plan and follow-up
What you gain with Risk Advisory
The practical difference when the work is planned and filed properly the first time.
A Clear Risk Picture
One risk register covering strategic, operational, financial, fraud, third-party and compliance risks, rated consistently and owned by named people.
Controls Where They Count
Control design focused on your highest-rated risks, with approval limits, segregation of duties and reconciliations matched to how you operate.
Fraud Gaps Closed
We look for the gaps fraud exploits — in payments, procurement, payroll, cash and inventory — and design checks that close them.
Third Parties Under Control
Suppliers, distributors and agents are assessed for dependency, integrity and compliance risk, with due diligence proportionate to what each one handles.
Continuity Planned
We identify the processes, people and systems you cannot do without, and help you plan how the business keeps running if one fails.
Actions, Not Just Findings
Every recommendation comes with a priority, an owner and a target date, so the report turns into work your team can actually complete.
A clear process, step by step
One adviser owns your file from first call to completion, and you always know which step you are on.
- 01
Scope & Context
We agree the scope with management — the whole business or chosen areas — and review your structure, key processes, contracts, systems and any past incidents or audit findings.
- 02
Risk Identification Workshops
Through interviews and workshops with your managers, we identify the risks in each area and rate them by likelihood and impact on a consistent scale.
- 03
Control Review & Design
We map existing controls against the key risks, assess how well they are designed, and propose new or improved controls where gaps remain, recorded in a control matrix.
- 04
Report & Heat Map
You receive a risk report with the register, heat map and control matrix, written for management and the board rather than for specialists.
- 05
Action Plan & Follow-Up
We agree a prioritised action plan with owners and target dates, and can return to check progress and refresh the register as the business changes.
Who it’s for and what you’ll need
Have these ready and we can move quickly. If something is missing, we will tell you what the authority accepts instead.
When risk advisory helps
- Your business has grown faster than its controls
- A bank, investor or board has asked for a risk assessment
- You have had a fraud, loss or control failure
- You depend heavily on a few suppliers, customers or people
- You are preparing for an internal or external audit
Information we’ll need
- Organisation chart and key roles
- Overview of main processes and systems
- Policies, approval limits and authority matrix
- Key contracts, suppliers and distributors
- Recent financial statements or management accounts
- Past audit findings, incidents or losses
- Time with management for interviews and workshops
Need documents attested or translated? Our document clearing team can help.
Risk Advisory questions
Straight answers to what clients ask us most. If yours is not here, ask us directly.
Risk advisory helps you identify risks and design or improve the controls that manage them — it is forward-looking and done with management. Internal audit gives independent assurance that controls work as intended, testing them and reporting to management or the board. Many businesses use advisory first to build the framework, then internal audit to check it operates; to keep that assurance independent, the people who designed a control should not be the ones auditing it.
A risk report covering the scope and method, the risk register with ratings and owners, a heat map showing likelihood and impact, a control matrix linking key risks to controls and gaps, and a prioritised action plan with owners and target dates. Everything is delivered in editable form so your team can keep the register up to date.
Yes. Our approach draws on widely used frameworks such as ISO 31000 for risk management and COSO for internal control, scaled to the size of your business. We use them as structure, not paperwork — a small company gets a short, usable register and control matrix rather than a long manual nobody reads.
We look at where money, goods or data move and who controls each step — payments, procurement, payroll, expenses, cash, inventory and system access. We identify where one person can both initiate and approve, where reconciliations are missing, and where pressure or incentives exist, then design preventive and detective controls that fit the size of your team.
A small company often depends more on single points of failure — one key person, one bank, one system or one supplier. A continuity plan does not need to be long: it identifies the critical activities, what would stop them and how you would keep operating or recover. We keep it proportionate to your size and walk through the essentials with you.
Typically once a year, and whenever something significant changes — a new product or market, a major customer or supplier, a system change, an acquisition or a control failure. The register is a working document: owners should update their risks and actions between reviews. We can return periodically to refresh it and track progress on the action plan.
Related services
Most clients combine these. We run them as one engagement with a single point of contact.
Let’s plan your next move
Tell us what you are planning. An adviser will come back with the route, the documents and an itemised quote — no obligation, no pressure to commit.
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Office 44, Floor M2, BN Complex, Deira Al Muteena, Dubai, UAE
Mon – Sat, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (GST)
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