Operational Compliance Support Across Every Stage of Growth
Deliver reliable, review-ready compliance processes across onboarding, periodic reviews, and monitoring aligned to your control framework.
Specialist compliance support that strengthens your control environment
Compliance functions play a critical role in enabling growth, supporting client onboarding, and maintaining trust with regulators and stakeholders. Compliance teams are expected to maintain high standards of onboarding, monitoring, and documentation, often while managing growing volumes, regulatory expectations, and tight internal timelines, particularly across complex client bases and multi-jurisdictional structures.
At Project Accountants, we provide specialist compliance support that integrates into your operating model. We work within your systems and control framework, supporting financial services, fiduciary, and professional services firms across KYC, reviews, screening, monitoring, and compliance programmes.
industry expertise
flexible support models
practical hands on approach
backed by experienced professionals
What we can do for you
Onboarding KYC:
We support efficient, controlled onboarding by coordinating checks and building complete, review-ready files, including:
- Customer/investor/client KYC collection and verification support
- Identification and ownership checks (as required by your procedures)
- Risk-based onboarding file completion and evidence trail maintenance
- Exceptions follow-up and onboarding tracker management
Periodic KYC / CDD reviews:
We help keep periodic reviews on schedule and consistent with your policy, including:
- Refresh cycles and review timetables
- Updated documentation collection and validation
- Risk review support and file remediation where gaps are identified
- Review trackers, evidence logs, and completion reporting
Sanctions screening:
We help ensure screening is performed consistently and documented properly, including:
- Sanctions screening support at onboarding and refresh points
- Ongoing screening where required by your procedures
- Escalation packs for potential matches (supporting evidence and context)
- Screening logs and audit-ready documentation
Ongoing / adverse media screening:
We support ongoing risk monitoring and timely escalation of relevant findings, including:
- Adverse media screening and periodic re-checks
- Results triage support and documentation of outcomes
- Escalations to the compliance function/MLRO where relevant
- Monitoring trackers and evidence retention
Transaction monitoring support:
We provide operational support for monitoring processes and investigation workflow, including:
- Alert review support and investigation pack preparation
- Evidence gathering and narrative summaries for escalation/review
- Tracking of outcomes, decisions, and follow-up actions
- Documentation to support internal review and audit readiness
SAR assistance for MLROs:
We support MLROs by preparing inputs and documentation packs to streamline SAR workflows, including:
- Compilation of relevant facts, timelines, and supporting documents
- Drafting support for internal summaries and escalation notes (as required)
- Coordination of inputs and recordkeeping for MLRO review
- Tracker management for actions and outcomes
Compliance risk assessment support:
We support structured risk assessments with clear documentation and practical outputs, including:
- Data gathering and evidence collation
- Risk register inputs and control mapping support
- Drafting support for risk assessment materials (for your review/approval)
- Action plan and remediation tracker setup
Compliance monitoring programme assistance:
We help maintain a consistent monitoring programme and follow-through on findings, including:
- Test plan support and monitoring schedules
- Evidence collection and working paper preparation
- Findings logs, remediation actions, and closure tracking
- Reporting inputs for compliance dashboards and governance forums
Policy review and gap analysis:
We support periodic review of your policies and procedures to ensure they remain fit for purpose and aligned to regulatory expectations, including:
- Review of existing policies against current regulations and industry standards
- Identification of gaps, inconsistencies, or outdated provisions
- Benchmarking against best practice frameworks
- Recommendations for updates, enhancements, and remediation actions
- Version control, update logs, and audit-ready documentation
Remediation and file quality assurance:
We support remediation programmes and uplift of file quality where deficiencies are identified, including:
- KYC file reviews against your policies and standards
- Identification and categorisation of gaps
- Remediation execution and evidence completion
- QA checks to ensure consistency and review readiness
- Backlog clearance support and progress tracking
Audit and regulatory review support:
We support preparation for audits and regulatory reviews, helping ensure documentation is complete and accessible, including:
- Pre-audit file reviews and readiness checks
- Evidence pack preparation and document collation
- Support responding to audit or regulator queries
- Issue tracking and remediation follow-up
MLRO / compliance team support:
We provide additional capacity to support compliance leadership and day-to-day activity, including:
- Support with escalations and case handling workflows
- Preparation of documentation and internal summaries
- Coordination of inputs for reporting and governance
- Cover during peak periods or absences
How we strengthen your operating model
High-performing compliance functions rely on consistent execution, clear evidence trails, and the ability to scale during onboarding peaks, periodic review cycles, and time-sensitive events. Our compliance support aligns to these outcomes:
Why audit practices partner with us
Rapid scalability that preserves your existing operating model
Controlled, repeatable processes that produce review-ready deliverables and audit support
Seamless coordination with internal teams and third parties
Reduced execution risk and improved timeliness across month/quarter-end cycles and statutory reporting deadlines
Operational support delivered within your systems and control framework
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FAQs
How do you integrate into existing systems and workflows?
We embed into your established processes, trackers, templates, and approval routines, working within your control framework rather than introducing parallel processes.
Can you help clear KYC backlogs or support onboarding peaks?
Yes. We provide scalable capacity to help with high volumes, remediation activity, or deadline-driven onboarding and refresh cycles.
Do you provide support for ongoing screening and monitoring?
Yes. We can support sanctions screening, adverse media screening, and transaction monitoring workflows, including evidence gathering, documentation, and escalation pack preparation.
Can you support compliance risk assessments and monitoring programmes?
Yes. We support data gathering, control mapping inputs, monitoring plan assistance, findings logs, and remediation tracking to help keep programmes effective and on schedule.
Can you review our policies and identify gaps or misalignment?
Yes. We review your policies and procedures to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and misalignment with regulations or your operating model, and provide clear, practical recommendations to address them.
