Risk Management App Summary

Strategy

  • Create your organization's strategies
  • Link them to your business unit's objectives and relevant KPIs
  • Communicate strategy down from executives to business units
  • Escalate risks up from business units to executives 

Risk & Control Libraries

  • Access and update the central risk & control libraries
  • Maintain standard taxonomy across risks
  • View and update organizational structure
  • Push updated risk and control information to risk registers

Identify Risks

  • Create new risks and add them to the library
  • Categorize risks by risk categories, processes, or objectives
  • Visualize risk and control universe

Risk Registers & Risk Assessment

  • Create risk registers for business units, functions, or company wide
  • Notify risk and control owners to perform risk and control self-assessments
  • Step-by-step assessments, including:
    • Inherent, residual, and target risk assessment
    • Identify and connect controls to risk
    • Control assessments
    • Link controls to a central library of policies
    • Define risk appetite for each individual risk
    • Use risk appetite to prioritize risks for management
    • Determine appropriate risk response based on priority
    • Escalate risk if necessary
    • Link KRIs and loss events to risk, as appropriate 
  • Visualize connections in a graph to determine interconnectivity between different data point in the risk register
  • Status reports of completion, including overdue risk registers

Issues & Actions

  • Create and assign an action plan
  • Track progress of action plans
  • Assign issue & actions owners

KRIs (Key Risk Indicators)

  • Create and set thresholds for KRIs
  • Assign KRI owner for update
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual trending of KRIs
  • Notifications when KRI is out of the threshold
  • Link KRIs to risk monitoring

Loss Events for Financial Institutions

  • Log loss events
  • Track financial losses and recoveries
  • Conduct root cause analysis
  • Categorize loss events for reporting
  • Link issues and actions to prevent reoccurrence

Reports & Dashboards

  • Out-of-the-box dashboards that track risk reports for:
    • Executive Committee
    • Management Teams
  • Out-of-the-box reporting, including:
    • Risk Committee Summary reports 
    • Heatmaps at Corporate and Business Unit levels
    • Risk and Control Matrix
    • Risk owner summary report
    • Issues and Action Plan Status
    • KRI status and risk appetite report
    • Loss Event Summary Report

Cross-Team Collaboration

  • Share assessments of controls across business units and second-line functions
  • Centralize risk data with Internal Audit and IT Risk applications 
  • Automated notifications of completed audits for review of final audit reports and issues
  • Tag team members for comments and information requests