Helping a fast-growing crypto specialist meet its audit deadline

Our client was one month away from its year-end and urgently needed assistance in completing the previous year’s ongoing statutory audit.

We quickly deployed a team of six, led by a senior project manager, to scope the core issues and generate the quality reconciliations needed for the imminent audit.

Our team worked tactfully and collaborated closely with the client’s finance team to calmly deliver the outputs.

This was a challenging project as the client's finance director (FD) left the role at short notice and a new chief financial officer was appointed. Fortunately, our project manager had built significant trust over the initial weeks of the project and was asked to lead the project delivery following the FD's sudden departure.

Over a four-month period, the month-end process was reduced from 20 days to six days as a result of the improved reconciliation processes introduced by our team.

On being asked to accelerate the production of the overdue 2020 statutory accounts, senior team members worked with the client’s external accounting team to resolve the outstanding financial reporting issues to the auditor’s satisfaction.

As a result, the client also engaged us to help execute their 2021 statutory process. Our most significant contribution to this was detecting an issue with the nature of trade investments. A review of individual trade contracts resulted in the client’s legal and commercial teams deciding that a new investment committee was required.