Personal & practical support with a commercial focus

The Advisory Services Group was founded by Cathy and Mel in late 2021 and quickly grew from one business to a group of companies during the first half of 2022. The business is 100% owner-managed and totally independent.

The services provided by the business may be for one-off projects, including emergency assistance, or retained work over a longer length of time. Our team work closely with our clients' teams and often feel like an extension of their business, but with the advantage of providing independence that can be leveraged and directed to the best needs of the business, at that time.


Advisory Services Guernsey

We have extensive practical experience working within the offshore finance industry, the public sector and new start-ups, having held various roles across multiple disciplines. Having sat in the same seats as our clients we fully understand the challenges.  We use this knowledge, along with significant experience, to support our clients when they need it most.


Meet the team

Testimonials

  • “It was a privilege to work together with Cathy. With her background first in the business and later in compliance she is capable to find the right approach and come to quick and good decisions without unnecessarily hurting the business. She has built up an impressive knowledge about banking regulations, more specifically compliance related ones and she is maintaining this knowledge very well and knows how to interpret them. She maintains an open relationship with the regulator and is actively involved in helping to develop good regulations. She is a fine manager / leader with heart for her people who do appreciate her very much. The same can be said about colleagues in the business(and elsewhere in the organisation). All in all Cathy is one of those people you seldom find and who help to make working a pleasure instead of a burden.”
  • “I have worked closely with Cathy during the period that we were both part of the European Staff Council of ABN AMRO. Cathy is a dedicated person, who is easy to work with. Cathy is smart and together with a good doses of humour she is able to make difficult topics easy to discuss. Her latest achievement for the ESC was, together with the Council, the delivery of a good opinion document , that was entirely embraced by the management. Cathy will be missed in the Council..”
  • “Cathy is an experienced finance professional who always contributes more than the role asks for. She has proven success in developing a team and always received very positive feedback from the people that worked with her. Cathy has proven experience as a seasoned professional Compliance Officer, and one I enjoyed to work with.”
  • “Cathy is a very capable and knowledgeable (non)Financial Risk manager who is able to see the ‘bigger picture’ whilst having full understanding of all relevant details. Cathy takes decisions swiftly and is able to balance relevant priorities. She has a good sense of commercial-business priorities and this enables her to fully understand the areas of risk. In addition she is very personable and has a great sense of humour. Working with Cathy full-time has been a distinct pleasure.”
  • "The team from Advisory Services have been great volunteers, providing first class support to charities through the drop in sessions assisting charities with the new online registration system. Your team have been both friendly and efficient and made everyone feel at ease. Thank you" - The Association of Guernsey Charities
  • “I worked with Cathy for over a decade and watched her develop within a number of diverse and senior roles both customer facing and internal. She showed not just the professionalism associated with those roles but also brought her personality to each role and a huge degree of empathy and emotional intelligence. Cathy is a delight to work with and I am sure that whatever the challenge of the next opportunity she chooses to take on she will thrive and her employer of choice will reap the benefit.”
  • “Jodie has provided a fantastic service being knowledgeable, proactive, diligent and courteous when dealing with both our clients and ourselves. Jodie has made great progress with our project and I would have no hesitation in recommending Jodie to others.”
  • “I approached Advisory Services at short notice to undertake a AML/KYC gap analysis. The resulting report was extremely detailed, whilst being in a format that presented the information on a case by case basis, providing details of the documents reviewed, the assessment, key findings and an overall conclusion. I would have no hesitation in using Advisory Services again.”
  • “Marie-Claire has been pivotal in supporting our compliance department and came armed with extensive technical regulatory experience, enabling her to hit the ground running with her strong self-driven work ethos. Marie-Claire shows true passion in her work and has seamlessly become a trusted and reliable colleague to our team.”