Data management throughout all corporate processes, with the most appropriate timing and forms, and the guarantee of having and using complete, correct and accurate data, enable management to translate relevant information into a critical success factor, guaranteeing value for the company.
PricewaterhouseCoopers experts support companies in analyzing, managing and monitoring data quality and in documenting the relevant processes and workflows.
Enables such as Data Services generally represent a set of skills integrating and completing PricewaterhouseCoopers focus areas service lines (Financial Effectiveness, IT Effectiveness, Operation e Governance, Risk & Compliance).
Main Data Services
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- The user does not trust data used in decision-making processes
- Management cannot access available information on a timely basis
- It is not clear who is responsible for data
- Implementation of new applications and projects involving IT Integration and Data Conversion activities
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- Development of strategies for consistency of corporate databases, to guarantee completeness and accuracy of data utilized
- Workflows review to ensure consistency and data availability
- Data migration from legacy to ERP systems
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What we do |
- Large quantity of data to be examined or recalculated
- Need to analyze and examine data for specific audit requirements (CAATs)
- Need to analyze and examine data in connection with Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions projects
- Need to use a third party to ensure data are accurately, completely and fully processed
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- Data analysis for audit engagements or special projects aiming at the recalculation, reconciliation or sampling
- Support in the management of Know Your Customer (KYC), Procurement Analysis and duplication identification projects (Cash Finder)
- Operating support in the preparation of periodical statistics for the industry and analysis of data supplied by individual industry associations members
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| Critical issues |
What we do |
- Manual or burdensome processes for data research and management for reporting purposes
- Excessive quantity of corporate databases
- Business choices depend on spreadsheets or on manual processes/controls
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- Identification of specific solutions to solve business functions issues integrating and supporting other PwC services
- Support in computerizing manual activities, workflow redefinition, specific database analysis and reconciliation
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What we do |
- Need to create and apply policies to file documentation, including e-mails, information management and voice mail
- Need to develop the technological bases and processes to retrieve and file documents and information
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- Technology solutions valuation best responding to business requirements
- Definition of the policy to manage and file information
- Valuation of technical solutions better responding to corporate needs
- Support Internal audit or other functions for the testing and monitoring legislation and regulations compliance
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What we do |
- Acquire, retrieve or keep data from corporate systems or from employees’ hardware
- Analyze databases, including the electronic mail databases, in connection with investigations for fraud, money laundering or other unfair activity
- Reconstruct accounting data
- Retrieve, digitalize and catalogue documentation filed in different formats
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- Disk Imaging, retrieve erased data from hard disks and acquire databases for subsequent analyses or as evidence for certain facts protecting data integrity and probatory value, in compliance with legislation
- Analysis of critical corporate transactions, reporting exceptions, duplications and/or specific transaction aspects
- Performance of specific fraud-prevention procedures such as SAS99
- Automatic e-mail and attachments analysis on the basis of pre-determined events and/or fraud schemes
- Retrieve accounting data and ability to make them available in consistent formats
- Implementation of fraud-prevention systems
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