Businesses undergoing a merger, acquisition or funding round, or those needing a cross-divisional compliance health-check, are the most common source of enquiries. Each project is scoped around the specific research or audit question raised.
Due Diligence & Compliance Audit Services South Africa
Due Diligence & Compliance Audit Services South Africa
Not every need fits neatly into a single service line. A funding round requires HR and financial due diligence in a matter of weeks. A board asks for a full compliance health-check across every discipline at once. A sector benchmarking study needs data no off-the-shelf report can provide. A division wants a documented process flow before it re-engineers a set of occupations, or a training needs analysis to back up a skills development plan. LBD Consultants’ Special Research & Projects capability exists for exactly this kind of work, covering administrative, research, and once-off projects, from due diligence and compliance audits to process mapping, career path mapping, and workforce data analysis, that don’t fit a standing retainer.
Because this capability draws on every discipline across LBD Consultants, from Labour Law and Payroll to Employment Equity and Bookkeeping, projects are resourced with whichever specialists a scope actually requires, rather than a single generalist trying to cover ground outside their expertise.
What WE Do
LBD Consultants’ Special Research & Projects division provides once-off due diligence, cross-divisional audits and bespoke research for businesses with a specific, non-recurring need.
Due Diligence For Mergers, Acquisitions, And Funding Rounds
A due diligence process moves quickly and needs to be right the first time, since the findings directly inform a deal, a valuation, or an investment decision. Therefore, our due diligence consultants pull from labour law, payroll, bookkeeping, and employment equity expertise depending on precisely what a transaction requires.
We provide HR due diligence covering contracts, disputes, and workforce risk, alongside financial due diligence drawing on bookkeeping and payroll records. In addition, our M&A due diligence work is scoped per engagement, so you receive findings relevant to your specific transaction, not a generic checklist.
Compliance Audits Across Every Discipline
A single-discipline audit can miss risk sitting in the gaps between departments, where a payroll issue creates an EE reporting problem, or a labour law risk goes unnoticed because HR and Legal never compared notes. Consequently, a compliance audit that spans every discipline at once catches what a narrower review would miss.
Our compliance health-check draws on Labour Law, HR, Payroll, Bookkeeping & Accounting, SDF, and Employment Equity together, giving you a single, cross-divisional view of your compliance position. Furthermore, this labour compliance audit approach is particularly valuable ahead of a board review, a funding application, or a B-BBEE verification, where gaps in one area can undermine confidence in the whole submission.
Custom research
Remuneration Benchmarking And Custom Research
Generic salary survey data rarely reflects the realities of a specific sector, role type, or regional labour market, which makes decisions based on it harder to defend. Therefore, our remuneration benchmarking work is built around your actual sector and workforce, not an industry-wide average.
We conduct custom research services covering labour market benchmarking, salary benchmarking, and sector-specific studies for IT, engineering, Skills Development Providers, and training companies. Moreover, this labour market research draws on real payroll and bookkeeping data where available, giving you benchmarking you can stand behind in a remuneration review or an income differential analysis.
Research assistance
Process Mapping, Occupational Re-Engineering, And Training Needs Analysis
Administrative and research projects often start with a simple question that’s surprisingly hard to answer: how does work actually move through this organisation, and does the current job structure still match it? Therefore, we build documented process flows and process maps that reflect how a function genuinely operates, rather than how an org chart assumes it does.
This process mapping work commonly feeds into a broader re-engineering of occupations, where roles are redesigned around the process rather than legacy job titles, surfacing the real training needs a workforce carries along the way. Furthermore, we pair this with a wider needs analysis, career path mapping, and data analysis of your workforce information, so recommendations on structure, skills, and progression are grounded in what your organisation actually needs, not a generic template.
F.A.Q.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of work does the Special Research & Projects division handle?
This division covers once-off, cross-divisional work that doesn’t fit a standing retainer, including due diligence, benchmarking research and custom compliance audits. Each engagement is scoped individually against a specific brief.
Is Special Research & Projects available as an ongoing service?
No, this division is built for bespoke, non-recurring engagements rather than ongoing retainers. For recurring compliance needs, LBD Consultants’ other divisions, such as Payroll, SDF or Employment Equity, provide standing support.
Who typically requests a Special Research & Projects engagement?
Talk To Us About A Bespoke Project
If your business needs due diligence ahead of a transaction, a compliance audit spanning more than one discipline, process mapping and occupational re-engineering, a training needs analysis or career path mapping, or research that a generic report can’t provide, LBD Consultants’ Special Research & Projects capability is built for exactly that. Rather than a standing service, every engagement here is scoped to the brief in front of us, drawing on whichever specialists across the practice the work actually requires.
Get in touch to discuss your project, and we’ll scope an approach and a team suited to what you need.