Internal Controls & Risk Management
We Build the Roots That Make Your Business Stand Tall and Risk-Free
Internal controls give form to daily work. They keep decisions repeatable, processes grounded, and movements intentional. Risk management accepts that certainty is temporary and prepares the organisation to respond when patterns break. At Ekatva, we work in that space, building systems that hold when things are calm and frameworks that help you stay solid.
The Delights We Deliver: Internal Controls Management & Risk Management Framework
Internal Controls & Risk Frameworks
As they say, ”a well-set foundation fears no earthquakes”. At Ekatva, we build that strong foundation for your business. Our internal controls management and risk management frameworks help organisations understand how work flows, where decisions rest, and how risk enters operations. Acknowledging the risk, our frameworks prepare businesses to respond with awareness.
Corporate Governance Advisory
Every organisation wants to grow their business, but growth alone is not enough. Growing it right is what makes it worthwhile. We work with organisations to examine their decision-making process and responsibilities shared, restoring balance. We believe that when values and leadership move in the same direction, growth becomes meaningful.
Corporate Governance Advisory
When numbers feel inconsistent, when processes seem out of step, when something simply does not sit right, forensic work begins. Our forensic, fraud, and investigation services focus on understanding what happened, why it happened, and how it can be prevented from happening again.
Compliance Reviews & Health Checks
At Ekatva, we believe that prevention is better than penalisation. Much like regular health checkups help maintain physical well-being, compliance health checks help organisations stay in peak shape. We review existing frameworks, identify gaps, and recommend corrective measures from a regulatory and operational perspective.
Anti-Money Laundering Reviews
A stitch in time saves nine. Our AML reviews focus on how effectively an organisation understands and responds to financial crime risk. We evaluate controls, monitoring mechanisms, and risk assessment processes to identify vulnerabilities before they escalate into damage.
ITGC, Cyber Controls & DPDP Readiness
In the digital world, protection of data from threats is equally tough as hiding from predators in the jungle. We help businesses establish IT General Controls and cyber frameworks that protect data integrity, bring system reliability, and support DPDP readiness.
Audits ESG Controls Evaluation
Sustainability begins with intention, but survives through discipline. Our ESG controls evaluation examines how environmental, social, and governance commitments are brought to reality. We assess whether controls support ethical conduct, responsible decision-making, and long-term value creation.
Methodology We Follow for Our Internal Controls Management & Risk Framework Services
Assessing the Risk
We at Ekatva keep our eyes wide open and have a deep analysis of the company’s workings. At the initial stage, our first step is a structured risk assessment and diagnostic review of processes, systems, and controls to understand how the organisation functions in practice. This allows us to identify exposure points and underlying causes.
Mitigation
As the second step, we put internal controls in place that are practical, proportionate, and aligned with the organisation’s operating reality. These controls reduce exposure without disrupting momentum. The emphasis is not on adding layers to the process, but rather on introducing consistency and responsibility.
Monitoring
Controls must remain attentive to change. As operations and external conditions shift, risk changes shape. After placing the right controls, we stand at the shore watching the risk waves roll in, keeping business alert to every rise and every shift, with this continuous watch through periodic reviews, control performance checks, and exception analysis.
Continuous Improvement
Even after all the procedures, Ekatva doesn’t shift gears. Learning from monitoring outcomes, regulatory developments, and business evolution, we refine controls on an ongoing basis. Through continuous improvement, internal control, and risk frameworks remain capable of supporting long-term decision-making.
Prepare for the Storms You Don’t See Coming
Put the Internal Controls and Risk Management Plans in Place Before Any Threat Can Catch You Off Guard
The Tangible Outcomes:
Internal Controls Management & Risk Framework
When our services prove their worth, results speak long before we do.
No Gaps in the Numbers
Well-designed risk controls reduce errors, limit exposure to fraud and financial crime, and allow financial information to reflect reality. Over time, this strengthens the reliability of reporting and protects the organisation’s reputation.
Efficiency as a Natural State
Internal controls and risk management systems simplify workflows by reducing errors, timely detection of risk, and increasing productivity. Processes move with greater ease, and productivity improves through order.
Compliance as Continuity
A structured internal control framework helps organisations recognise regulatory risk early and address them before they escalate. This enables consistent compliance, reducing the need for corrective action and intervention.
Trust Built into the System
Clear controls create visible audit trails, allowing decisions to be understood and explained. This transparency strengthens confidence among leadership, regulators, and stakeholders alike.
Ekatva’s Tatva
Services | Offering | Value |
|---|---|---|
Internal Controls & Risk Frameworks | Risk assessment, continuous monitoring, control design and implementation | Stability in operations, early risk awareness, protection from threat and reputational damage |
Corporate Governance Advisory | Governance structure review, board advisory, decision-making frameworks | Transparent leadership and governance that supports sustainable growth |
Forensic, Fraud & Investigation Services | Forensic reviews, fraud investigation, root-cause analysis, control strengthening | Protection of assets, preservation of trust |
Compliance Reviews & Health Checks | Compliance diagnostics, gaps analysis, corrective action planning. | Build trust and regulatory confidence, and consistent compliance |
Anti-Money Laundering Reviews | AML policies and procedures review, training, business risk assessment, KYC & CDD managed services | Ethical operations, reduced financial crime exposure |
ITGC, Cyber Controls & DPDP Readiness | ITGC review, cyber risk assessment, data protection readiness | Secured business from cyber threats, future readiness |
Audits ESG Controls Evaluation | ESG control assessment, sustainability framework review | Long-term value creation, responsible conduct, trust through accountability |
Tame Risk Before It Strikes
Ekatva Keeps You Ahead of Uncertainties with Controls that React Faster Than Threats
Impact And Advantage of Our
Internal Controls and Risk Management
Compliance becomes sustainable when it is embedded in daily functioning rather than treated as an external demand. A structured control framework keeps organisations aligned with legal and regulatory expectations through daily practice, limiting penalties, avoiding non-compliance, and reducing the need for last-minute correction.
Internal controls management helps organisations to see risk before it takes form. By introducing preventive measures early, risks are managed proactively rather than discovered too late.
Early recognition of risk changes the nature of the response. Errors are corrected before they grow costly, inefficiencies are addressed before they harden into habits, and operations continue with fewer interruptions. Stability, in this sense, is a timely attention.
From the Banyan Diaries
I am a banyan, long, tall, and ever standing. A witness to time, seasons, and storms that roared at me, yet none can break my foundation, no winds could strip me bare. It’s not because I was born extraordinary, but because I was nurtured with purity and ethical roots. Your business is no different from mine. To make your business stand tall for ages and hold strong when risks rise like wild winds, you need a foundation strengthened by internal controls and supported by thoughtful risk management. Let your organisation grow with integrity as its core, with safeguards that are woven into layers and with a foundation that no storm could bend.
Behind the Role
CA Harsh Mehta
Partner
Chartered Accountant Harsh Mehta, a renowned member of ICAI and founder of Money Plus Consultancy Services (specialising in Real Estate, Startups, and Gift City Advisory). He mentors various startups, helping them define business models and develop strategies. He also featured on TV news channels, offering his valuable perspective and insights on topics like startups, and is often invited by a renowned university as a judge for various startup-related events.
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