Risk management

Stronger business continuity, greater investor confidence and enhanced efficiency are just some of the powerful benefits we’re delivering for our customers by helping them manage riskWithout taking risks we’d never move forward. What’s vital is ensuring we reap reward from the risks we take. That’s why formal risk and opportunity assessment is ingrained in our culture, an automatic part of managing our clients' projects, helping companies prepare for the uncertain and the unexpected – and running our own business.

Whether we’re talking strategies for water resource planning, acquisition due diligence for investors, service delivery in education and healthcare or procurement in oil and gas development, we’re experienced in managing all kinds of risks – commercial, technical, programme, environment and more – on all kinds of projects. Some risks are inherent within the project, others can be managed out if they’re identified early enough. Mott MacDonald’s experts are skilled in identifying risk, prioritising action and advising on risk management solutions – at the same time spotting opportunities for adding value and ways to achieve it.

Increased uncertainty and risk have resulted in the development of legal and contractual frameworks to handle large-scale projects. In response we’ve developed pragmatic mechanisms for improving customers’ success using formal methods for risk and opportunity management in three specific areas: corporate governance, project risk management and PFI/PPP investment risk assessment.

We provide expertise in risk management-based corporate audit processes to help customers achieve full compliance with corporate governance legislation plus risk management methods – backed by proven risk analysis tools – that ensure transparency and benchmark progress.

Our technical and risk analysis skills have been proven to add value to PFI/PPP teams – in the 2008 Project Finance Awards we were named best technical advisor for the third time in four years.