MUNICIPAlITIEs

Helping you Find the Right Balance
At MNP, we understand the numerous demands and pressures you face. That’s
why our services are scalable and pragmatic. With MNP, you can target a
specific phase; select individual components; sequence program development
to help balance costs and resource demand; or adopt our solutions as a
complete service package.
Our partner-led engagements mean you get an experienced team of
professionals responding with cost-effective strategies when and where you
need them most. Committed to your success, our specialists will work closely
with your team to develop efficient processes, find innovative ways to meet
or exceed service expectations to stakeholders, address internal control issues
and identify potential risks to protect your resources and your reputation.
Having senior members of our municipalities team with extensive crossdisciplinary experience means MNP offers municipalities the most value for
their investment.
ABOUT MNP
MNP is one of the largest chartered accountancy
and business consulting firms in Canada. For
more than 65 years, we have proudly served and
responded to the needs of our clients in the public,
private and not-for-profit sectors. Through partnerled engagements, we provide a cost-effective
approach to doing business and personalized
strategies to help you succeed.
Understanding that knowledge sharing and transfer is essential to your future
success, we also pair our professionals with your personnel to facilitate effective
knowledge sharing. This helps your organization develop sustainable strategies,
processes and technology improvements internally as well as achieve stronger
governance and greater implementation success over the long-term.
Municipalities
Gordon Chan, CA, CFE, CRMA
403.537.8429 or gordon.chan@mnp.ca
Trent Bester, MBA
604.637.1568 or trent.bester@mnp.ca
Providing the foundation to
support your mandate.
Greg Draper, FCGA, DIFA, ICD.D
403.537.7679 or greg.draper@mnp.ca
Visit us at MNP.ca
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It all begins at the core
Today’s municipalities are expected to offer more for less while
seamlessly factoring in variables such as spending priorities and rapid
economic changes into the equation. With limited time, resources and
evolving stakeholder needs compounding the issue, it can be difficult to
develop and implement strategies that position you for immediate and
long-term success.
At MNP, we have created the Centre of Excellence, a specialized
unit dedicated to reducing risk and optimizing opportunities for
municipalities. Knowing that your mandate is the core of the community,
we help you define value drivers, optimize processes and address your
priority risks so you are well positioned to achieve excellence.
Our team has unrivalled expertise
and extensive experience assisting
municipalities of all sizes in several
key service areas:
Strategy, Governance & Risk Management
Municipalities, like other organizations, require a sound strategic plan
to provide a clear vision for the future that addresses social, fiscal and
environmental challenges and opportunities. A sound governance structure
and an integrated risk management program is critical to the execution
of the plan. It will assist you in determining the degree of uncertainty and
risk you are prepared to accept as you evaluate opportunities that will help
achieve strategic objectives. Our team provides leading organizations and
municipalities with risk intelligence, reporting and monitoring tools to foster
better decision-making. Through our comprehensive and holistic approach,
we help municipalities plan for the future and reduce the uncertainty of
current and emerging threats to identified opportunities, positioning you to
achieve excellence.
Operational Effectiveness
Now more than ever, municipalities must be flexible and innovative, utilizing
the most effective and efficient processes and practices to realize your
mandate. Our team brings a full complement of services and expertise to
assist municipalities in optimizing your operations and fully leveraging your
assets. From designing an effective organizational structure to assessing
and redesigning integrated processes with the right accountabilities and
controls, we focus on helping you optimize results and manage risk.
We work closely with your people to develop value-added solutions and
provide your municipality with the support you need to execute on a
viable implementation plan and ensure an appropriate level of knowledge
transfer. Well-known for our ability to create a complementary and
collaborative environment, our consultants will optimize your operations
and ease decision-making to help you reach key goals.
Internal Audit
In order to effectively manage risk and strengthen stakeholder confidence,
municipalities rely on a strong risk-based internal audit function. It’s
important to know whether your existing system of internal controls
are effectively managing your priority risks and whether those controls
are operating effectively. This is where we can help by facilitating risk
assessments, preparing risk-based internal audit plans and providing subject
matter expertise for the execution of variety of internal audit engagements
through a co-sourced or fully outsourced internal audit arrangement.
Business Resilience
MNP’s business resilience solutions are customized to your needs and are
designed to ensure the continuity of your operation despite drastic changes.
Based on proven methods and our integrated approach, we help you build
a resilient enterprise with a solid foundation of programs that include: risk
management, physical and IT security, performance improvement and
change management. We will also help you capitalize on the synergies
created by the three mutually supporting pillars of business continuity, IT
disaster recovery and crisis management so you can integrate and link the
programs to improve effectiveness, cost efficiencies and overall resiliency.
Information Technology
Using technology to achieve your goals brings both opportunities and risk
to municipalities. Our team of technology specialists excel at identifying
requirements and assisting with translating those requirements into effective
solutions that involve leveraging your current technology and selecting
additional solutions if required. A greater reliance on technology means
significant consequences for information breaches and system interruptions.
It is now more important than ever to align your IT environment with critical
business drivers to reduce risk and improve stakeholder confidence. Through
careful planning and risk mitigation strategies, our team can help your
organization leverage the full benefits of technology.
Forensics
With diverse activities and mandates, municipalities are stretched in
multiple directions at once. This creates competition for resources and
can open up gaps within your controls environment. As fraud and security
breaches escalate in frequency and severity, the public sector must be
vigilant about protecting their resources and reputation. In the event of a
breach, our team will conduct a detailed and focused examination of the
incident to determine why it happened, what contributed to it and ways to
prevent it. By helping you integrate effective strategies, you will be able to
proactively identify, assess and respond to threats early, which is your best
defense in preventing fraud.