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Patrick Girling is an experienced risk & compliance practitioner. He has held FSA Approved persons roles for Risk, Compliance, MLRO, and Internal Audit and is currenlty a Non Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee of a Friendly Society.
Having held senior positions in the Financial Services Industry before deciding to operate independently Patrick understand better than many consultants the needs of organisations. That is why he, and the associates he uses at CGAS, spen time understanding the organisation before providing pragmatic, proportionate, professional & personal advice.
Regulation such as Sarbanes Oxley, Basel II, Solvency II, Data Protection Act and other legal and regulatory developments introduced by the Government and regulators have created an ever more complex programme of risk & compliance that organisations need to rationalise and manage.
CGAS, led by Patrick Girling, specialises in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). One way to define risk is as measurable uncertainty. Risk is clearly ubiquitous in business and takes many forms. ERM has become an important element of Corporate Governance. Although this suggests a compliance based approach, once integrated into the management process, it will assist an organisation improve its economic performance by reducing the risk weighting on capital. CGAS are independent which means you are assured that when you work with us, our advice is impartial and we don't have any hidden agendas to sell you software, hardware or facilities based solutions.
Our clients are assisted with all elements of ERM:
At CGAS we pride ourselves in ensuring that your business can identify, report and manage the risks and is pragmatically and cost-effectively protected in the event that something serious or unexpected should happen to it. We do this through a structured approach to Risk Assessment. We always ensure that our approach is suitable for the business and that any contingency arrangements implemented precisely meet the needs of your business.