Interview Jean-Luc Barlet

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Interview Jean-Luc Barlet

Leader for GSU T&I, Jean-Luc Barlet talks about the challenges of risk management and quality control, two elements that are intrinsic to the technical excellence at the heart of the added-value in Mazars’ services.

Intervening in support of the operational teams to ensure respect for the homogenous professional standards and ethical rules governing Mazars in every country in which we work, the GSU T&I constantly monitors the progression and harmonisation of technical and professional competencies in the Group. To this effect, the GSU teams define procedures and produce regularly updated quality manuals for general use. In addition to a ‘Quality’ manual on auditing, every year the GSU T&I expands the range of guides on risk management and on issues for the business lines as they develop, notably on Financial Advisory Services. Similarly, given the continued diversification of our range of services and our on-going international expansion, regularly involving the integration of new entities, the Risk Management teams keep watch to ensure an appropriate match between our standards and the assignments we undertake. The ethical rules for accepting assignments have been harmonised across all partnership countries and businesses, so that they all share common rules, particularly in the highly regulated field of statutory audit. At international level, to coordinate our operational activity, we have established a set of technical structures in the majority of countries where we do business. Almost 400 correspondents in the GSU are responsible for the day to day roll-out of tools and procedures and for building up best practices, with a view to ensuring the same level of excellence throughout the world, for example in the context of group audits Guillemet fermant