Internal Audit Transformation services

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EY is revolutionizing Internal Audit (IA) delivery through technology enablement and our strategic alliances. By harnessing advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and automation, we aim to enhance the accuracy, speed, and effectiveness of audit activities, allowing auditors to focus on delivering strategic insights and risk management, ultimately driving greater value for clients.

Your business challenge

Organizations face increasing opportunities and challenges from client expectations, technology advancements, changing market and regulatory landscapes. In this environment, internal audit plays an important role in helping leadership navigate a spectrum of business risks.

Following traditional audit approaches is increasingly difficult in providing adequate assurance coverage and relevant business insights to stakeholders. Audit executives are challenged to answer these questions:

  • How can we provide higher value and reduced assurance costs, given the evolving business and technology landscape?

  • How can we be proactive in identifying emerging risks and organizational capability blind spots?

  • How can we provide value-adding actionable insights and answer questions that have not been addressed before?

  • How do we define a vision for an IA function that leverages human business and subject-matter expertise and technology automation? 

Solution benefits

Positioning our value-driven activities and foundational elements to maximize IA’s impact, influence and involvement in risk management, governance and control. Beneficial outcomes include:

  • Improved operational efficiencies and cost-effectiveness

  • Deeper insights needed to build trust through transformation

  • Stronger ability to manage business growth with confidence 

Solution features and functionality

We structure our IA solutions into the following categorizes:

IA Transformation: 

  • Assessment of internal audit function’s current state and design, build or enhance program to increase impact, influence and involvement of internal audit. 

  • Technology-driven transformation focused on optimizing usage of current enabling technology with a roadmap for continued advancement and improvements. 

IA Co-source and Outsource:

  • Partnering with clients, the internal audit service offering is designed to help organizations enhance their internal audit functions through use of technology, improve risk management, and achieve their strategic objectives. Inclusive of IT and business process/operations.

IA Quality Assessment Review:

Assessment of the internal audit function against the IIA Standards (other applicable standards), EY proprietary maturity model and industry/peers to identify gaps, highlight improvement opportunities and design appropriate recommendations. 

EY teams and AuditBoard (now Optro) help organizations reimagine risk

Hear Scott McCowan, EY Global Consulting Risk Markets Leader, discuss risk transformation at the AuditBoard Audit & Beyond event.

Why EY

EY teams have a mature IA service offering based on providing value to IA functions with global footprints. Our flexible, scalable services help organizations realize desired future state IA capabilities through better risk coverage and increased stakeholder value with cost-effective delivery. 

EY Alliance and Ecosystem Relationships

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Our Alliance relationships include Microsoft, SAP and ServiceNow.

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