Map the obligation, not the software
Every return you are required to file, the date it is due, and the record each line depends on. One page per obligation, written so someone outside the team can follow it.
What we solve
Regulatory exposure you cannot ignore
A return with a deadline and a penalty behind it, and a process that was never designed to produce it.
How it usually shows up
The obligation is clear enough. The evidence behind it is not. Quantitative return templates get populated from calculation-heavy spreadsheets that live on individual machines, actuarial and accounting teams work to different cut-offs, and the reconciliation happens in the last week before submission.
Nobody is careless. The process simply grew faster than the controls around it, and every cycle is completed by people working late rather than by a system.
What the regulator actually asks
Not whether you meant to comply. It asks for the record, on the date it was made, and for the control that says who reviewed it. That is where most reporting programmes are thin: the numbers can be produced, but the trail behind them cannot.
How we approach it
Build the control framework
Collection, population, reconciliation and signoff coordinated by a system, with the rules written down rather than remembered.
Prove it, cycle after cycle
Tested against your last four submissions before we hand it over, so the first live cycle is not the first real test.
The regulator does not ask whether you meant to comply. It asks for the record, on the date it was made.
Case study
Case study 1
Broken
Two people coordinating dozens of calculation-heavy spreadsheets to populate quarterly and annual quantitative return templates, under severe time pressure, with no control framework.
At stake
Adverse audit findings, regulatory fines and scrutiny.
What we did
Built an automated control framework to coordinate, collect and manage the population process across actuarial and accounting teams.
What changed
One process
One system for population, reconciliation and full signoff. The whole regulatory return process simplified, with transparency and confidence in the numbers.
Sector and scale only. We do not name clients, and every number here is one the client confirmed.
Contact
Tell us which return worries you most
We will come back with a scope, a price in rand, and an honest answer about whether it is worth doing.
connect@rahn.co.za