Client & Consulting Services
To succeed in today’s environment, businesses must adapt quickly and operate throughout an ever-changing marketplace, increasingly complex and volatile. The EASE team integrates these external factors and our consulting expertise in order to attain the objectives defined by the client. Our management of resources reflects our values and our client’s approach.
EASE is a professional firm that provides a broad range of services, expertise, and focused resources. We develop long-term relationships with our clients, and work in collaboration with them to determine the solution that meets their needs. Our ambition is to bring real added value in terms of technical skills, dynamism and excellence.
When EASE can assist you ?
- Peak work periods
- Special / Critical projects
- Regulatory compliance
- Periodic & scheduled reporting
- Workforce shortage
- Project management
- High growth periods
- Business process improvements
Our Business Areas
- Accountancy in Lux Gaap and IFRS;
- Review of regulatory reporting to be sure that they are full compliance with laws, CSSF and BCL regulations;
Middle & Back-Office Operations
Handling and valuation of middle and back-office operations related to payments, credit and debit cards, loans and securities, derivatives and financial instruments
Support in Project Implementations
Give support and/or advices to our clients in case of implementation of financial or organizational business projects by proposing adapted solutions and create added-value for them
Financial Planning / Financial Analysis / Financial Controlling
- Budget planning and budget analysis
- Control business processes
- Analyse results and KPI’s and propose actions when needed
- Creation of reports to manage the profitability
Taxes
Elaboration of tax and VAT declarations
An expertise covering all types of funds, from plain vanilla to SPVs, enabling us to provide with sustainable support to our clients.
Operational Expertise
- Provide with know-how and understanding in existing team in order to develop knowledge;
- Share operations experience to increase team performance;
- Supporting on-boarding operations;
- Take a step back on practices to help staff improving their productivity.
Process Analyses
- Bring fresh eye on current methods to be able to increase efficiency;
- Design and implement new flows and processes.
Client’s Relationships
- Help on sensitive relationships by creating trust;
- Initiate first contact and create a long term relationship.
Regulations
- Support on ISAE3402 guidelines;
- CRS & FATCA classification.
Trainings
- Preparation of policies and procedures on client acceptance and KYC, AML, CTF, code of ethics, data protection, customer risks assessment, conflicts of interests, complaints handling, remuneration, professional secrecy and clean desk, whistle blowing, FATCA and CRS;
- Advise on compliance regulatory requirements;
- Preparation of informative materials for customers and management board on compliance regulations;
- Assistance and advise on Compliance matters related with external audit or audit from market regulator;
- Support on technical compliance questions;
- Preparation of compliance monitoring systems;
- Preparation of template documents for compliance use;
- Assist in interviews for recruiting permanent Compliance sector employees;
- Prepare training materials and provide training on compliance and regulatory matters;
- KYC Periodic reviews and analysis;
- Monitoring of transactions;
- Preparation on FATCA and CRS classification analysis and due diligences;
- Project coordination on KYC backlog reduction.
- Implementation of a comprehensive risk management framework covering business, financial as well as IT risks
- Set up an internal control framework
- Implementation and maintenance of an operational internal control tool with integrated automatic reporting
- Implement a maintainable procedure documentation framework
- Assist in producing the CSSF Reports (RAR & RD) in compliance with circular 12/544
IT Internal Audit Assistance
- BCP Review and testing, IT and business scenarios, coordination with providers and clients
- Development of specific tools for fraud investigation, review data sources used for AML transaction monitoring
- IT application review (infrastructure, access, integrity…)
- Risk assessment for in-house software deployment
Process Review
- Purchasing and invoicing cycle, Call center assessment
- Review the controls on automated reports for integrity and coherency
- Review the Identity Access Management and the related actual segregation of duties
Individuals
- Trainings related to wellbeing. Example of topics: Stress management, Understanding and preventing Burn out & Bore out;
- Sophrology group workshops. Science of body & mind balance using relaxation techniques - Benefits: released physical tensions, stress resilience, better focus and creativity, better sleep, wellbeing, positive thinking;
- Individual coaching session.
Organisation
- Diagnosis of your organisation through HR metrics analysis, understanding of your corporate culture and internal organisation;
- Health Diagnosis through survey and interviews to measure stress level, identify burnout/boreout risks and stress causes;
- Assistance to develop a corporate culture based on Corporate Social Responsibility and Wellbeing;
- Assistance to assess the true and fair view of your business performance through identification of your core assets and set up of relevant non financial indicators.
