Enterprise expertise. Independent advice. A partner you can rely on.
For multinational organisations, compliance is rarely confined to one standard, one location or one team. Managing multiple certifications, regulatory requirements, management systems and specialist disciplines across a complex organisation requires experience, expertise and a clear strategic view.
For more than 20 years, Assent has worked with organisations across international standards and compliance disciplines.
We provide enterprise organisations with access to senior consultants and subject matter experts who work alongside internal teams to provide specialist expertise, independent assurance and practical support across their compliance landscape.
Why Choose Assent
Multilingual Support
Through our diverse team of consultants and ISO 17100 certified partners we can deliver documentation translated and localised in many languages. Read more about Translation for Compliance.
Over 20 Years Experience
Founded in 2002 we have a rich and successful history in the compliance industry.
Technology Integrated
Integrated but impartial, we can select and use the best tools for you, keeping your data on your tenancy and in your control! Read more about our Tech-Integrated Approach.
Global Reach & Resilience
Our network of consultants, auditors, subject matter experts and thought leaders gives us unrivalled reach and resilience.
Your team, supported by our experts
Consultancy Support for your Organisation
Enterprise organisations often have established internal compliance, risk, governance and assurance functions.
Our role is to strengthen those teams with additional expertise and independent perspective.
Through Assent, you can access senior consultants and subject matter experts with experience across a broad range of standards and compliance disciplines.
This gives your teams access to specialist knowledge without having to maintain every area of expertise internally.
Our consultants can support your organisation with:
- Specialist advice across multiple compliance disciplines
- Independent internal audits and assurance activities
- Management system reviews and improvement programmes
- Certification and recertification support
- Certification strategy and management
- Integrated management system development
- Independent challenge and assurance
- Specialist input into complex projects
- Support across multiple sites and business functions
- Additional expertise where specialist internal capability is required
We work with your people, not instead of them.
Our aim is to complement your existing capability, providing experienced external specialists who understand the demands of enterprise organisations.
Independent support for your certification strategy
For multinational organisations, certification can involve multiple standards, sites, business units and certification arrangements.
Managing this effectively requires more than maintaining certificates.
It requires an understanding of what your organisation actually needs and whether your existing certification arrangements provide the right coverage, assurance and value.
Assent can provide an independent perspective on your certification landscape, helping you assess your existing arrangements and identify opportunities to improve.
We can support you with:
- Reviewing your existing certification portfolio
- Identifying opportunities to integrate standards
- Assessing coverage across sites and business functions
- Identifying duplication or potential gaps
- Supporting certification and recertification programmes
- Reviewing certification strategies
- Helping you make informed decisions around certification providers
- Coordinating requirements across multiple standards
Our independence means we can provide objective advice based on what is appropriate for your organi
Senior expertise when you need it
Our clients have access to senior consultants and subject matter experts across a broad range of disciplines. This means that when a particular challenge arises, you have access to the appropriate expertise rather than relying on a single generalist consultant.
Our expertise spans areas including:
Quality & Business Management
Support with quality management systems, organisational processes, continual improvement and standards including ISO 9001.
Information Security & Cybersecurity
Specialist expertise across information security, cybersecurity, governance and standards including ISO 27001.
Environmental Management
Support with environmental management systems and standards including ISO 14001, alongside wider environmental and sustainability requirements.
Health & Safety
Experienced support across occupational health and safety management and standards including ISO 45001.
Business Continuity & Resilience
Expertise to help organisations understand and strengthen business continuity, resilience and preparedness.
AI Governance
Specialist support for organisations navigating the rapidly developing requirements surrounding artificial intelligence, including AI governance and relevant international standards.
Independent assurance and impartial internal audits
For enterprise organisations, internal assurance plays an important role in understanding whether management systems are operating effectively.
Our consultants can provide impartial internal audits and independent reviews, giving your internal teams and senior leadership an external perspective on your compliance arrangements.
We can challenge existing processes, identify areas for improvement and provide practical recommendations without becoming part of your certification body.
This independent perspective can be particularly valuable where organisations operate across multiple locations, business units or management systems.
Built on more than 20 years of experience
Our experience has been built over more than two decades of working with international standards and organisations across a wide range of sectors.
We’ve supported organisations with complex compliance requirements, demanding operating environments and the need to demonstrate robust governance and assurance.
Our enterprise experience includes organisations such as:
ClearBank
Congratulations to ClearBank for achieving certification in ISO 22301 Business Continuity and ISO 27001 Information Security.
Whistl
Leading logistics company Whistl has successfully completed their first year of outsourced internal audits to five different ISO standards!
