As a financial institution, you often face new and complex events such as refinancing, financial restructuring, and acquisitions or disposals of businesses and assets.
And as regulatory requirements and growing stakeholder demands for transparency increase, the pressure on you builds. Although it is already high on the board agenda, audit and assurance is ever more important.
We help you through a powerful combination of extensive experience in audit and assurance, innovative audit technology as well as our strong relation with FINMA. We challenge assumptions, provide insights, improve audit quality and deliver the right results for your business.
Our technical specialists support your front office or structuring teams in developing practical and innovative solutions to meet your objectives. And our accounting policy teams develop guidance and help resolve any issues. We can do this thanks to our in-house technical resources and experience of where accounting standards, financial services and capital markets meet.
How we can support you
- External audits:
- audit of consolidated and annual financial statements under IFRS, US GAAP, Swiss GAAP FER, FINMA accounting rules or Swiss Code of Obligation
- regulatory audits as the extended arm of a supervisory authority (e.g. FINMA or FMA)
- system implementation / data migration reviews
- Licensing audits: to acquire respective licenses as banks, insurance companies, managers of collective assets, fund management companies, or other FinIA licenses.
- ESG assurance: Assurance and health checks on sustainability reports, assurance on product related disclosures, controls reports on key processes and systems
- Internal Audit services: review of internal audit departments in accordance with IIA standards, co-sourcing and outsourcing internal audit functions, audits and advice for employee benefit funds
- Incorporations, transfers: comprehensive advisory services to determine regulatory and accounting impacts across all of the processes for insurers relocating to Switzerland (from the conceptualization to the daily business), license application, audit for incorporations
- IT and Control attestations: ISAE 3000/3402, SOC 1/2/3 reports, SWIFT and SIC attestation, SNB Downtime attestation
Partnering for success: submit your interests & open questions
We look forward to your requests and will be happy to answer open questions you may have.
Meet our experts
Mirko Liberto
Partner, Financial Services, Member of the Executive Board of Directors, CFO
KPMG Switzerland
