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Committee reporting

In most of the risk functions we have worked in, the committee pack is rebuilt by hand the weekend before the meeting, and nobody can say afterwards which version of which number went into it.

A committee pack being configured and taken through its approval chain A drawn view of the platform. On the left, the eight sections of a pack with a switch beside each, one switched off. On the right, a preview page of the pack watermarked draft, and beneath it the approval chain: compiled and reviewed done, signed off in progress, released to come. Connected risk intelligence All entities (Group) Dashboard Risk register Risk assessments Controls Control assessments KRI register KRI collection Breaches Risk events Remediation Committee packs Audit log MODULES TPRM & Supplier DD Obligations Management ICARA Operational Resilience Customer Oversight Portal RMRisk manager Committee pack Group audit and risk committee · this quarter · assembled from live data Export PDF Sections Template: standard Executive summary Indicator early warning Risk appetite Principal riskstop 10 · outside appetite Risk events Path to green Indicator performance Control effectiveness Drag to reorder · filter to a band · cap · add commentary Preview data as at 30 Sep · page 1 of 14 Executive summary DRAFT Every figure traces back to source · exported 3 Oct 09:12 Commentary by the risk manager, dated APPROVAL CHAIN Compiledrisk manager Reviewedcompliance officer Signed offboard, awaiting Releasednot yet

Drawn from the platform.


What changes

The pack assembles from live data, and every figure traces back to source.

Sections are chosen, ordered and filtered once and saved as a template. The pack then moves through a recorded approval chain with segregation of duties at every gate.

Eight sections assemble into a pack that moves through four approval steps A stack of eight section bars on the left, from executive summary to control effectiveness, with an arrow into a document on the right watermarked draft. Beneath the document, four approval steps in a row: compiled, reviewed, signed off and released. Executive summary Indicator early warning Risk appetite Principal risks Risk events Path to green Indicator performance Control effectiveness switch on, reorder, filter, cap, comment DRAFT data as at · exported at Compiled Reviewed Signed off Released PDF or PowerPoint
The sections chosen for a pack, the pack itself and its approval chain.

In detail

Packs assemble from live data, so nobody writes one by hand. There are eight sections, each of which can be switched on or off, reordered, filtered to a band, capped to a top few and given its own commentary. A configuration saves as a named, reusable template, and editing a template never changes a pack already produced: what the committee saw in March stays as it saw it.

Packs then move through a recorded approval chain with segregation of duties enforced at every gate. Each step records who approved, when and in what role, and no one person takes a pack through two steps.

Export is to PDF or PowerPoint, watermarked DRAFT until approved, and every page carries the data-as-at and export instants, so there is no doubt which version of which number a page shows. A group pack and a unit's pack come from the same engine, and the unit's pack ranks, bands and counts on the unit's own figures.

Follow one pack from its template to the committee

The evidence it leaves behind

Each approval step is an audit entry with a name, a role and a time, so the chain that took a pack to the board can be read back later. Segregation of duties, enforced rather than asserted