Crisis scenario planning and management
We are supporting clients to:
- lead their crisis response
- provide additional strategic and operational capacity to manage the crisis
- stand up and run a crisis PMO / war room
- produce detailed scenarios including ‘reasonable worst case scenario’ and assessing business impact
- use these insights as part of the replanning and modelling process
Cashflow management and rapid cost reduction
We are supporting clients to:
- produce and review cashflow forecasts
- apply for Government funding
- identify the cost reduction levers available to the business to improve the liquidity position (e.g. cancel non essential orders, rationalise shifts or implement changes to working weeks)
- modelling changing customer needs and behaviours
Workforce
We are supporting clients to:
- understand, model and apply for Government schemes (e.g. CCFF, CLBILS, CBILS and CJRS in the UK)
- tackle complex immigration, pensions and employment tax matters
- plan and project manage key COVID-19 response workstreams (e.g. engagement, communications and remote working)
- rapidly redeploy their employees to emerging needs, based on a fuller understanding of roles, skills and availability
Employment and tax
We are supporting clients to:
- make critical decisions and communicate what this means to their employees
- consider their options for employees, including local Government funding (e.g. Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme in the UK)
- access tax reliefs and grants
- consider deferring pension contributions in order to preserve cash
Business, technology resilience and cyber security
We are supporting clients to:
- develop their approach to risk and controls (e.g. supervision and management)
- test the resilience and cyber security risks of their enhanced IT infrastructure
- secure newly implemented or scaled remote working practices and ensure the continuity of critical security functions
- counter opportunistic threat actors
- assess and implement controls to mitigate against new risks created by the new working environment
- investigate fraud and misconduct
Supply chain management
We are supporting clients to:
- reassess lead time and volatility to manage stock levels
- assess financial viability and other measures for critical suppliers
- manage risks of onboarding new suppliers
- assess surety of supply and substitution options
- support in implementing contingency replenishment process and controlled intake
Execution services and surge capacity
We are supporting clients to:
- deliver operations, including shared service centres, call centres and payments processing
- manage resource capacity issues as they deal with a peak in demand or fill resource gaps (e.g. providing additional call centre support for customers)
- provide additional resource to bridge resourcing gaps (e.g. critical roles)
Regulatory, compliance and claims
We are supporting clients to:
- tracking new regulatory changes (deadline changes as well as new rules), assessing impact and replanning
- assessing regulatory permissions and policy exceptions
- run contract reviews, including; assessing impacts of Force Majeure or Pandemic clauses and supporting commercial discussions and claims
- track and quantify the financial impact of COVID-19 using business interruption principles (e.g. relating to claims, contracts)
