Archer Individual Accountability Management

The Archer Individual Accountability Management offering enables organizations to hold individuals accountable for their conduct and competence, helping reduce consumer harm and support regulatory compliance. It supports the management of accountability for key individuals across the organization and provides insights into accountability coverage for Executives and Operational Teams. This solution helps address regulatory requirements and reduce risk by delivering full visibility into individuals’ backgrounds, eligibility, and related information.

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Release notes

Release version

Release date

Notes

Archer Individual Accountability Management 2024.11

February 2025

  1. Converted Regulatory Correspondence application to Archer Australian Correspondence offering

  2. FAR Requirements for reporting:

    • Track Significant Related Entities, Key Functions, and Accountabilities

    • Track Accountability start and end date

  3. Pricing updated

  4. Updated reporting for accountability gaps and joint accountabilities

  5. Track Committee Memberships per Accountability Statement/role

  6. Updated Delegation per FAR requirements

  7. Require temporary delegates to complete Acknowledgement as well

  8. Cross-reference policies

Archer Individual Accountability Management 6.12 P4

February 2023

Initial release

Overview

Accountability is quickly becoming a top-of-mind issue for many financial organizations both in Australia and EMEA. With regulations, like SMCR (Senior Managers and Certification Regime) in EMEA and FAR (Financial Accountability Regime) in Australia, it is important to understand individual responsibilities (especially Senior Management and/or Executives) and hold them accountable to assigned responsibilities. These regulations were put in place to provide a governance process that will reduce harm to consumers and strengthen market integrity by making organizations hold individuals accountable for their conduct and competence.

With SMCR and FAR, regulated firms are required to identify senior managers, executives, and key employees. The organization must allocate responsibilities to these individuals, draw together responsibility maps, and ensure that the individuals are fit and proper for their roles. The organization must also meet conduct and certification rules established by the regulator.

The Financial Accountability Regime (FAR) is a regulatory framework implemented in Australia to enhance accountability within the financial sector requiring senior executives and directors of financial institutions to be accountable for their actions and decisions, particularly concerning matters related to financial stability, customer outcomes, and compliance with regulations. FAR aims to improve transparency, governance, and risk management practices among financial institutions. Financial institutions in Australia are subjected to FAR requirements for reporting and disclosure.

By incorporating Archer Australian Regulatory Correspondence into Archer Individual Accountability Management, Australian customers can gain access to pre-configured FAR regulatory form templates for regulatory communications, guaranteeing compliance with their regulatory obligations.

Individual accountability is now a global concept and is becoming a regulatory focus area around the world. Regulated firms are being required to identify senior managers, executives, and certain key employees, allocate responsibilities to those individuals, draw together responsibility maps for the firm, and ensure that they are fit and proper for their roles, and meet conduct and certification rules established by the regulator.

Key features and benefits

With Archer Individual Accountability Management organizations can do the following.

  • Identify key individuals and roles within the organization to track accountability.

  • Document accountability, attestations, regulatory communication, and related events affecting accountability.

  • Define prescribed responsibilities and attach to individual accountability.

  • Document and track all notifications and communication with regulators.

  • Submit FAR regulatory forms and capture regulatory correspondence with Archer Australian Regulatory Correspondence

The benefits of Archer Individual Accountability Management include the following.

  • Give confidence to Executives and operational teams alike with current insights into accountability coverage.

  • Full visibility into individual background, eligibility and performance.

  • High-level view of organizational accountability coverage.

User guide

Administrator guide

Prerequisites (system requirements)

Components

Prerequisites

Archer solution areas

Archer Regulatory & Corporate Compliance Management

Archer use cases

  • Archer Enterprise Catalog

  • Archer Issues Management

Archer applications

  • Contacts

  • Findings

Uses custom objects

No

Requires Archer on-demand application (ODA) license

Zero (0) Archer On-Demand Application licenses are required.

Requires Archer license

Additional licensing fees apply for Archer Individual Accountability Management. Please contact Archer Sales Representative for more information and pricing.

Archer requirements

Archer Platform Release 2024.11 and later

Supported Archer environments

  • On-Premise

  • Archer SaaS

Compatible use cases & applications

Components

Architecture diagram

The following diagram shows the relationships between the applications in Archer Individual Accountability Management.

Note: Australian Regulatory Correspondence application is only available if Archer Australian Regulatory Correspondence package is taken. This application is specific to the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR) of Australia.

Process diagram

The following diagram shows the general workflow of the applications:

Applications & questionnaires

Application

Description

Contacts

The Contacts application is used to identify the Accountable Person. This serves as a central repository for contact information, is utilized across multiple areas of Archer, and contains information that is often leveraged by other use cases.

Accountability Statements

The Accountability Statements application documents the Accountable Person, their accountabilities or responsibilities, their Significant Related Entities and a qualification assessment to determine if the Accountable Person is qualified to perform their role. The Accountability Statement application also identifies delegates for accountabilities and documents the Accountability Statement’s review and approvals and communication with the Regulators.

Accountabilities

The Accountabilities application documents the Accountabilities within an organization. It also captures whether the Accountability is a Key Function or not for an Entity.

Committee Memberships

The Committee Memberships application documents Committees, their purpose, and members.

Accountability Acknowledgements

The Accountability Acknowledgements questionnaire documents attestation from the Accountable Person for the Accountability Statement.

Qualification Assessments

The Qualification Assessments questionnaire captures required qualification checks and results for the Accountable Person.

Historical Accountability Statements

The Historical Accountability Statements application documents the historic details of the Accountability Statement like Accountable Person, their accountabilities or responsibilities.

Assigned Accountabilities

The Assigned Accountabilities Applications documents who is responsible for those Accountabilities, tying them to an Accountable Person. It also captures the start & end date of an accountable person against each accountability.

Significant Related Entity

This application captures the Significant Related Entity details related to an Entity, their start date & end date.

Assigned Significant Related Entity

This Questionnaire documents accountable person's responsibility / accountability, their start date & end date against each Significant Related Entity.

Personas & access roles

The following table describes the functions that make up the application’s organization roles. Depending on the organization of your company, these functions and responsibilities may vary.

Function

Description

Compliance Officer

The Compliance Officer is responsible for documenting the Accountable Persons, responsibilities, impacted areas, reporting structure, and other key information as it pertains to the individual and their responsibilities. They are also responsible for vetting the Accountable Person and providing a statement of responsibilities or accountability statement in the case of a regulatory breach. Compliance Officers are also the point of contact with the Regulators.

Accountable Person

The Accountable Person is assigned responsibilities for their role and will sign the attestation for their role and responsibilities. This person can be an Executive, Senior Manager, or any key individual within the organization that needs to provide and track accountability.

Install Archer Individual Accountability Management

Note: The Archer Individual Accountability Management package contains “Contacts” core application. Please read the documentation for list of changes added to the Contacts application. It is recommended that users perform analysis on choosing whether to install the changes through package or perform manual changes.

  1. Prepare for the installation.

    1. Obtain the installation package.

    2. Read and understand the "Packaging Data" topic in the Archer Platform Help.

    3. Apply the latest license file in the Archer Control Panel.

  2. Install the package.

  3. Test the installation. Test the application according to your company standards and procedures, to ensure that the use case works with your existing processes.

Install the package

Installing a package requires that you import the package file, map the objects in the package to objects in the target instance, and then install the package.

Perform required post-installation steps for new users

For existing installations of Archer Individual Accountability Management, follow the steps in the Upgrading Archer Individual Accountability Management section.

For initial installations of the Archer Individual Accountability Management, follow the steps below to identify and remove any unnecessary fields and data feeds.

  1. Go to Accountabilities application and search for “Related Accountability Statements (OLD)” field. This field can be deleted, or it can be inactivated.

  2. Go to Accountability Statements application and search for “Accountabilities (OLD)” field. This field can be deleted, or it can be inactivated.

  3. Go to Historical Accountability Statements application and search for “Accountabilities (OLD)” field. This field can be deleted, or it can be inactivated.

  4. Go to Manage Data Feeds and search for “Map Accountabilities & Accountability Statements in Assigned Accountabilities” feed. Please delete this feed or keep it inactive. This feed is designed to migrate data for existing customers.

Set up data feeds

Upgrade Archer Individual Accountability Management

The Archer Individual Accountability Management 2024.11 release required architectural changes to meet FAR regulatory reporting requirements. As a result, some application relationships have been updated. The details of these changes are outlined below:

  1. Assign Committee Memberships to Accountability Statement: A new cross-reference has been introduced to support Committee Memberships assigned to Accountability Statements instead of the Accountable Person.

  2. Assign Accountabilities to Accountability Statement: The Assigned Accountabilities application has been introduced to capture additional details about accountabilities assigned to Accountable Persons, such as start and end dates. Previously, the Accountabilities application was used to assign accountabilities to the Accountability Statement; it is now designated for documenting the organization's accountabilities.

To implement these changes, we have introduced new cross-references and incorporated them into the layout. Existing cross-references have been renamed or removed from the layout. Details of the modifications to the previous fields are provided below.

Application Name

Field Name Changed From

Field Name Changed To

Accountabilities

Related Accountability Statements

Type: Cross reference

Related Accountability Statements (OLD)

Accountability Statements

Accountabilities

Type: Related Records

Accountabilities (OLD)

Historical Accountability Statements

Accountabilities

Type: Related Records

Accountabilities old

Performing required post-installation steps for existing users

After the package installation, changes to the old cross-reference fields will be reflected as outlined above. However, the name and alias for the newly introduced fields will need to be updated as detailed below.

Configure the Archer Individual Accountability Management

Configure contacts application

This section provides guidance on configuring changes to the Contacts application when it is not installed through the installation package or when only new components are created without layout modifications during the package installation.

Configure Accountability Statements & Accountability Acknowledgements

Troubleshooting

After package installation if Assigned Accountabilities & Significant Related Entity applications are appearing as On-Demand Applications (ODA), Ensure the installation package is the most recent version stated on the Archer Exchange and reinstall the package.

Certification environment

Date tested: February 2025

Product Name

Version Information

Operating System

Archer

2024.11

Virtual Appliance