The 9th CFOs Breakfast Forum 2019 | ICPAK | 20 August 2019 | Crowne Plaza, Kenya Road, Upper Hill Nairobi KE, Nairobi, Kenya

From conception to implementation, businesses need to ensure the GRC programes they pursue allow them to achieve their business objectives, address risk and uncertainty, achieve regulatory compliance and ultimately act with integrity.

Today’s business environment is characterized by myriad risks – including disruptive technologies, expanding regulatory compliance obligations and increasing governance expectations. To manage such risks, businesses need their governance, risk & compliance (GRC) practitioners to be at the top of their game.

Peak performance is essential as the task of building an effective GRC program, one with integrity at its core and which can improve a company’s agility, productivity and competitiveness is by no means straightforward given how susceptible GRC is to fluctuations in market conditions, especially over the past three decades.

Indeed, according to EY’s 2017 analysis ‘Agile GRC: a new approach to governance, trust and risk in the digital age’, over this time “GRC has evolved in response to several large-scale macroeconomic events, as well as the business and regulatory changes they precipitated. In doing so, GRC has continually adjusted its core focus and expanded the scope of risk its covers”. The report also notes that “GRC is entering a new phase in its development and is increasingly focused on continual monitoring, business decision support and improved shareholder value”.

The CFOs forum offers C-Level executives an intimate environment for a focused discussion of the key new drivers shaping corporate priorities and finance strategies.