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Digital and Analytics
We have developed distinctive capabilities in digital advisory and data analytics that are key to the success of dynamic organisations.
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Business Consulting
Our business consulting services help organisations improve operational performance and productivity throughout the growth life cycle.
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Corporate Finance & Restructuring
We combine our insights and experience to provide a comprehensive range of advisory and corporate finance and restructuring solutions.
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Internal Audit
Our internal audit service is designed to provide both assurance and consulting assistance on the adequacy and effectiveness of an organisation’s system of internal controls.
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Business Risk Services
Our service is focused on enabling broader risk coverage and proactive management of risks for the achievement of organisational strategy.
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Business Process Solutions
We work with a multitude of organizations to improve their finance function efficiency, reduce costs associated with business processes and provide a complete solution to the challenge faced by South African organizations.
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Programme Assurance & Advisory
Our aim is to protect shareholder value by providing Assurance and Advisory services on change portfolios and large-scale programmes to assist organisations.
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Forensic Services
Our forensic capability is integrated with our wider advisory services – not an add-on.
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Cyber Advisory
Our Cyber Advisory service is designed to help you identify, protect, detect, respond and recover from cyber-attacks.
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IT Advisory Services
We help clients to navigate the complexities and provide you with robust independent assurance that your IT risks, key management priorities and core systems are being appropriately managed.
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SNG ARGEN
We have a dynamic actuarial team set to assist businesses to comply with the audit standards where actuarial services are required.
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General Audit
We provide a sound statutory audit of financial statements specialising in both listed entities and state-owned organisations.
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Financial Services Group (FSG)
The Financial Services Group (FSG) offers specialised audit and advisory solutions to the banking, treasury and financial services sectors.
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Technical Excellence
We have a well-established specialized technical division, with in-depth, local and international knowledge and experience, which consists of three units namely; Accounting, Audit and Sustainability reporting.
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Corporate Tax
We offer your business access to a global network of tax specialists in over 130 countries with extensive corporate tax technical skills to provide meaningful advice and adding value to your organization.
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Value-Added Tax
We can manage your overall exposure to indirect taxes, guide you through complex South African Value-Added Tax (VAT) legislation.
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Global Mobility
Taxes can be complicated, but the SNG Grant Thornton approach is to assist the new assignee with a clear and easy process.
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Customs and Excise Tax
Our Customs and Excise team assist traders with driving cost-effective supply chains while maintaining legitimate trade.
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Tax Technology
This is the lynchpin of our tax audit and advisory approach in making the tax function of our clients effective in data management tools.
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International Tax & Transfer Pricing
Our team is ideally suited to serve large multinationals and other global companies that need on the ground expertise in multiple jurisdictions, given our extensive network of offices around the globe.
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Specific Focus Areas
We have a team of dedicated tax specialists with deep knowledge to bring practical and cost-effective tax solutions to our clients and assist entities operating within these sectors to effectively manage their tax needs.
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Business Consulting
We provide fit-for-purpose solutions to address major challenges the Education sector faces by supporting our clients.
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Employees’ Tax Services
Its important to ensure that the institution complies with the tax legislation and that all payroll records are accurate and complete.
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Programme Assurance & Advisory
The need for sound project management and effective solution delivery gives you the edge in competitive markets.
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Forensic Services
Fraud detection review and forensic investigation for Higher Education
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Digital and Analytics
The digitalisation of processes within the higher education sector leads to increased data generation. This data can be an essential asset when leveraged correctly.
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Cyber Security Services
There is no one-size-fits-all security solution to preventing all attacks, but we have cybersecurity strategies that education institutions can use to minimise cyber threats.
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Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs)
SDG Impact Standards Training Course
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Staying ahead of disruptive change
The environment for business is changing faster now than at any time in recent history. Forces such as globalisation and rapid technological changes are disrupting traditional business models and creating huge challenges for organisations, both privately owned and publicly listed.
Our business consulting services help organisations improve operational performance and productivity throughout the growth life cycle.
Our services include:
The advent of the COVID 19 pandemic has brought about numerous challenges to an already complex business world globally and has reinforced the notion that businesses should “adapt”. The growing need for businesses to operate efficiently and be agile has never been any greater.
Some typical challenges that businesses are currently facing are:
- Obsolete business models that are no longer relevant to the emergent environment
- Inadequate and complex business processes
- Inability to innovate
- Bloated overhead costs and
- Consequently, cash flow challenges
The output of our financial model is used for decision making and performing financial analysis, whether internally or externally. Internally, management would use financial models for:
Decision-Making Company
- Performance
- Strategic Planning
- Restructuring of business models
- Budgeting and forecasting (planning for the years ahead)
- Project Finance
Project Finance
- Making acquisitions / Investment decisions (businesses and/or assets)
- Selling or divesting assets and business units
- Capital allocation (priority of which projects to invest in)
Corporate Transactions
- Raising capital (debt and/or equity)
- Valuing a business/security
- Growing the business organically (e.g. opening new stores, entering new markets, etc.)
- Mergers & Acquisitions.
Our team strives for excellence ensuring that the public sector complies with national policies and procedures. Our qualified professionals provide a wide range of services in this area, including but not limited to:
- Preparation and review of Annual Financial Statements and supporting audit files
- Compilation of Audit of Performance Information and assistance with preparation of POE Files and aligning of KPI to Annual Performance Report Assistance with rectifying non-compliance matter
- Audit query support that includes the compilation and monitoring of audit query corrective action plan
- Tracking of irregular expenditure, unauthorised, fruitless and wasteful expenditure (UIF&W
- Compilation of UIF&W register
- UIF&W write-off processes assistance in terms of relevant regulations
- Reviewing and designing of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), including finance and supply chain
- Reviewing and designing of financial policies
- Capturing and reconciliations of financial transactions from the first principle
- Revenue enhancement
- Compilation and review of Asset Registers including Fixed Asset Registers and Investment Registers
It is widely accepted that the best driver for socio-economic transformation is small business development. Our team aims to create an enabling transformational environment with adequate access to market and business support for small businesses while developing robust eco-systems for small businesses to seize these opportunities.
Our services are two folds both internal and external-facing. Our solutions are also supported by the provision of dashboards used as reporting tools with these programmes and focus on measuring the impact from both the sponsor and beneficiary perspective. We also specialise in Family Business Consulting,
Our services are two folds both internal and external-facing.
The internal facing-side focuses on assisting corporates to understand their supply chains and is enabled through the implementation of their Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) objectives that are mandated by the Preferential Procurement Framework Act and the B-BBEE Codes of Good Practice to integrate small black owned enterprises into their supply chains.
The external-facing side focuses on the implementation of ESD initiatives through business development support to selected SMME beneficiaries using innovation, incubation and acceleration programmes.
Our service offering includes Governance and Compliance and Trust Administration.
In this fast-paced world, where unforeseen change has become the norm, it has become imperative for organisations to implement good corporate governance. As a result of the institutionalisation of corporate governance in South Africa through the publication of the King Report on Corporate Governance, which has subsequently been superseded by the King Report, there has been a greater demand by stakeholders for increased transparency in organisations.
Our team assists large and small organisations with a variety of best practice corporate governance services in line with current legislation inclusive of, but not limited to, the King Report on Corporate Governance, the Companies Act and the various corporate governance codes.
One of the greatest setbacks for the administration of trusts is poor governance and it is therefore important that trusts are set up and managed properly. This will ensure the trust realises its objectives to best benefit its beneficiaries.
Our team helps empower trustees of a trust in order to perform their duties by exercising best practices through our guidance as advisers who act independently and ensure confidentiality.
We provide competent experienced staff to ensure operational efficiency through the provision of secretarial services inclusive of accounting services, the management of trust assets, risk advisory and streamlined communication avenues using our tailored platform to ensure optimal document management.
Our service offering includes Change and Programme Management and Human Resource Management.
Change is inevitable and with the rapid developments in technology affecting the people aspect within the context of an organisation, there is a great need for employees of an organisation to be able to both adopt and adapt when such changes take place. It is without a doubt that humans in their innate nature are resistant to change.
Our team helps organisations with large scale transformative program employee adoption, such as post-merger integration efforts, in both structural and technological changes. We apply a structured approach to transitioning organisations from their current state to their desired future state, ensuring that change is fully integrated and sustainable across a business.
People are the driving force behind any enterprise and a shortage of the right people is a top concern for executives worldwide. Our deep experience tailored optimisation tools and focus on business outcomes help our clients meet this challenge and turn talent into a competitive advantage.
Our team supports businesses with the strategic elements of HR process effectiveness challenges they face through the alignment of the HR process to the HR operating model, strategy, technology architecture and the overall corporate strategy.
Our service offering includes Financial Management and Financial Costing and Modelling Services.
Successful financial transformation will increase the value of organisations financial functions by shifting its focus from managing transactions to analysing information and informing decision-makers.
We strengthen finance operations through a review and improvement of financial processes, systems and functions to help drive profitable growth, business understanding and reduce costs. We also provide Business Outsourcing (People and Systems) to further strengthen our client’s organisations.
Costing and modelling of products or services is an integral part of any business in order to turn a profit. We help businesses understand where the costs are generated within the business and how to manage these costs. We provide cost modelling services specialising in Activity Based Costing, Standard Costing and Process Costing.
Our robust cost modelling utilises a fully absorbed methodology to calculate product or service profitability and also pricing. We scrutinise all aspects of an organisation by providing management decision information to better support clients to ensure that organisations are cost-effective whilst maintaining a level of profitability.
To maintain growth, organisations must remain flexible, agile and profitable - which requires systematic improvement across people, processes and technology. The key is to understand which activities are no longer needed and which ones should remain.
We help our clients optimise processes across the organisation, leveraging appropriate technologies, and considering the impact on people to help achieve strategic growth goals and reduce risk. Utilising our global framework and set of tools we are able to encourage wider and more meaningful conversations which are focused solely on areas of client growth.
Our technology solutions services address a broad range of process, technology and organisational needs across finance, supply chain, HR functions and cybersecurity. We support businesses and technology functions to engage, specify and deliver scalable solutions for both the business and its customers.
Working with the technology community to develop solutions in data collection systems, mobile applications, social media and knowledge management platforms, monitoring, and improved data sharing between parties.
Our process includes:
- Providing recommendations for technology improvements (e.g., existing training platforms, e-learning modules, smart applications, tracking and criminal database management, or monitoring, response, and data analysis)
- Identifying needs and opportunities and communicating them to the technology community within clients
- Work with technology innovators to bring proposed solutions to scale
Business strategy can be a complex journey incorporating a myriad of decisions that are constantly made in a dynamic and ever-changing environment. Our strategy and performance improvement professionals have the tools, experience, expertise, and insights to support our client’s growth ambitions throughout their strategic journey in today’s constantly evolving global economy.
We assist our client’s with defining their current and future capabilities, identifying business influencing factors, recognising and targeting markets, determining vision, mission and objectives as well as monitor tracking processes to ensure the expected future is realised.
Solid and well-written feasibility studies and business plans are key elements of a successful funding application. Our team have extensive experience with compiling clear, concise and comprehensive reports comprising of an in-depth market assessment and financial analysis.
Our additional services
SDG Impact Standards Training Course