Audit Support
Audits go badly when the requests arrive faster than your team can answer them, and every answer needs a translation.
The problem
Why this keeps happening.
An audit is a project with a deadline, a request list, and a counterparty. Most organizations treat it as an interruption and staff it with whoever is available.
The auditor's request list is written in their vocabulary. Your team spends the first two weeks figuring out what is actually being asked for.
By the time evidence is assembled, the fieldwork window is half gone and findings are being written from incomplete answers.
What we do
Capabilities.
- Pre-audit readiness assessment and gap closure
- Evidence package assembly against the auditor's request list
- Translation of audit requests into internal tasks with owners
- System access provisioning and walkthrough support for auditors
- Auditor liaison during fieldwork, including technical walkthroughs
- IT general controls documentation (access, change, operations)
- Findings review, management response drafting, and remediation planning
- Remediation execution and validation before the next cycle
- Coordination across financial, IT, HIPAA, SOC 2, and payer audits
- A repeatable evidence process so next year costs less
Outcomes
What you end up with.
A shorter fieldwork window
Evidence assembled before day one, so the auditor spends time reviewing instead of chasing.
Fewer surprise findings
Gaps identified and closed in readiness, not discovered in the draft report.
A repeatable cycle
Documentation and evidence processes that make next year's audit a smaller project.
Signs you need this.
- An audit is scheduled and no one owns preparation
- Last year's findings are still open
- Evidence gathering pulls your whole finance or IT team offline
- The auditor's IT general control requests go unanswered for days
- You're facing your first audit of any kind
Start with an assessment.
Two to four weeks, fixed fee. You end up with a current-state picture, a risk register, and a prioritized roadmap — whether or not you work with us after that.
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