Polemic Forensic Investigative Accountants provide independent and objective probity advice on procurement, grants management, recruitment or other tender processes to assist organisations in ensuring the process is fair, defensible and passes a reasonable person test.
As Chartered Accountants, Legal and fraud prevention experts, our probity services are commercially sound while maintaining high ethical standards. These skills and advice will help ensures value for money outcomes are delivered for our clients.
Probity Advisory Services
As an experienced supplier of probity advisory services, we have a proven probity methodology that ensures we deliver our services efficiently and effectively. We work with our clients using their procurement policy, code of conduct, conflict of interest policy and other relevant ethical policy settings to ensure a reasonable and risk-based approach is established that aligns with the organisation’s policies, risk profile and appetite, as well as delivering value for money.
Our probity advisor services are tailored to your organisation and to help ensure the project’s probity risk and organisational needs are met throughout all phases of the project. These include:
- Providing advice on drafting, implementing and monitoring compliance with a comprehensive tender process plan.
- Advise on probity roles and responsibilities.
- Advise on probity issues as they may arise during a process and provide guidance on how probity is to be addressed during the procurement or other activity.
- Advice and guidance on good record keeping and meeting processes.
We can work closely with procurement team to ensure that probity risks are mitigated or avoided before occurring, ensuring that the market and the public have a high level of confidence in the procurement processes undertaken.
Probity Auditing Services
In delivering probity auditor services, providing a clear interpretation of the application of relevant policies, procedures and the probity framework is critical to ensure they are consistent with government laws and legislation, guidelines and best practice principles. We have significant experience in working with project teams to ensure policies and the interpretations of, and procedures are being incorporated into the tender processes. However, probity assurance/auditing services are provided at key project milestones where audit opinions are provided rather than the provision of ongoing probity advice.
Polemic Forensic Investigative Accountants probity methodology follows international standards of risk management in. Our probity audit and advisory reports are tailored to meet the organisation audience’s needs for effective and efficient decision making, from the Board and executive to 1st and 2nd line of organisational defenses.
We work with our clients to understand the strategic drivers for their procurement decisions and assist them with planning robust procurements that achieve strategic objectives while maintaining a high level of probity with defensible outcomes.
Data analysis
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Investigations
Exception reporting
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