Overview
Your teams understand your risks, controls, and governance processes better than anyone. What they often need is a clear, independent view of the GRC tooling landscape - what genuinely strengthens governance, what supports regulatory expectations, and what will actually work in your organisation rather than simply digitising existing processes.
Our aim is straightforward: you should feel more confident, more informed, and better equipped to make GRC decisions that stand up to board scrutiny and regulatory challenge.
We help you define what “good” looks like for your organisation, assess the market with objectivity, and select a solution that fits your size, complexity, and ambitions - without over‑engineering or unnecessary cost.
Approach
Our accelerated approach uses implementation blueprints from similar organisations and focuses on:
- Understanding your requirements: We work with your senior leaders across Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, Operational Resilience and IT to define the requirements that matter - functional, regulatory, data, integration, reporting and usability. This ensures the tool supports your governance model rather than dictating it.
- Mapping your governance and assurance processes: We review how risks, controls, issues, actions, policies, resilience, and audit currently operate. We identify where automation adds value, where evidence is missing, and where processes need strengthening to meet PRA expectations.
- Market scan and vendor evaluation: We provide a clear view of the GRC landscape - enterprise suites, modular tools, audit platforms, and data‑driven RegTech. We evaluate vendors against your requirements, regulatory expectations, usability, cost, scalability, and vendor stability.
- Proof‑of‑concept and selection: We help you test shortlisted tools using real use cases, real data and real users. This ensures the chosen solution works in practice, not just in demos.
- Implementation roadmap: We support you in defining configuration, data migration, training, adoption, and governance - ensuring the tool embeds successfully and delivers long‑term value.
Why choose Green Dolphin
- Senior expertise with real delivery experience: We’ve supported banks and building societies through full GRC implementations - from requirements definition and vendor selection to configuration, rollout, and adoption. Our team brings decades of senior experience across risk, technology, operational resilience, data governance, and regulatory change, ensuring your decisions are grounded in what works in practice.
- Vendor‑independent advice: We are completely independent of GRC vendors. We don’t resell, take commission, or favour particular platforms. Our recommendations are objective, evidence‑based, and focused solely on what is right for your organisation, your governance model, and your regulatory expectations.
- Proven blueprints and commercial insight: We bring proven blueprints from previous implementations, including operating model designs, configuration patterns, data structures, and governance workflows that have worked successfully in other banks and building societies. We also bring commercial insight - what vendors typically charge, where costs escalate, what is negotiable, and how to avoid unnecessary complexity.
- Proportionate and practical: We understand the realities of building society budgets, resource constraints, and regulatory pressures. Our advice is proportionate to your size and risk profile, commercially grounded, and focused on delivering value without over‑engineering.