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Grant Thornton Public Sector LLC City of Santa Ana I RFQ 21- 093 Revised Proposal We routinely develop and refine our skills by providing and attending the latest training and professional development events. We have partnered with the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) to host quarterly Grants Management Symposiums across government since 2018 to discuss emerging trends, challenges and the impact of key legislation. Through the National Grants Management Association (NGMA), we have trained hundreds of grant management professionals at federal, state and local government including the use of integrity monitors to improve compliance and reduce risk for grantees. Our professionals are thought leaders in the industry, often publishing articles on grants management trends and best practices. Several of our professionals serve in local chapters and national level executive committees of organizations such as the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) and the Institute of Internal Auditors. Grant Thornton is also a National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) corporate partner which allows our employees to attend the annual conference and have access to both state and local emergency management directors and industry professionals. As mentioned, we will leverage our expertise to support the CITY in overseeing the SLFRF award. Grant Thornton has a dedicated community of practice of COVID-19 and Grant Thornton's COVID-19 community of practice has been ARPA team that conducts regular operating since the first declaration of the national public health legislative analysis, reviews program emergency. Our team provides our clients, on a weekly basis, guidance, and monitors other federal with regular updates on the activities of all federal and state funding developments. The team scans agencies, in which we are engaged, managing and impacting government websites, publications, and COVID-19 relief funding opportunities. This global approach news outlets daily to understand and provides our clients with the critical information they need from interpret on -going developments. We theirpar icular federal and state agencies, but also provides have established a group of management them insights into how other states and federal agencies have professionals from across the firm interpreted and mitigated compliance issues. p (industries and business lines) to form a COVID-19 cohort which meets twice weekly to discuss the evolving COVID-19 recovery, review the state and local government financial support landscape, and collaborate on the development of tools and solutions to assist our clients' needs. These policy level meetings provide our team with real-time insight into Congressional actions and federal agency developments that we share with our clients to shape their COVID-19 funding strategies. The Grant Thornton Team's general approach to providing technical support to the City in the development and monitoring of community recovery projects and submission of reports required by the SLFRFs to leverage our team's collective knowledge, skills, and abilities to build upon the City's tools and systems for data collection to create a standardized, repeatable process for efficient data sharing and report development. Since 2011, Grant Thornton has been providing technical assistance focused on demonstrating compliance with federal fiscal management and procurement requirements for clients like the states of Texas and Florida Divisions of Emergency Management, Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, and Marin County, California. With each engagement our teams have robust testing and validation procedures that build upon lessons learned. To facilitate the successful deployment of our approach, our team will employ the latest version of process automation and data analytics tools and methods developed by our Intelligent Automation Service Center (IASC). IASC operates as a centralized innovation delivery catalyst, providing solutions that both the firm and our customers can leverage to improve efficiencies. Areas of focus include working with new platforms that provide true orchestration of systems and processes (i.e., Catalytic), automating routine tasks, optimizing employee efforts, and reducing errors. For example, when working with an alumni customer, Grant Thornton used Catalytic to extract transactions from a parent ERP application, and parse to local ledgers, in support of required financial reporting. Automation solutions and tools, developed by IASC, that our team will employ to assist the City in meeting its data collection, analysis, and reporting requirements include: Invoice Processing — Created invoice matching processes in various systems to reduce manual efforts in Accounts Payable, speeding up the invoice process and creating time for resources to act on more strategic projects. Leveraged both RPA and OCR. Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to the restriction on the title page of this proposal or quotation. 28