Internal audit & risk teams
Co-sourced delivery for internal audit teams
Give your internal audit and risk team agreed capacity for IT, cyber, AI and operational reviews. Work is delivered to your plan, methodology and reporting line, with traceable workpapers for the people who review and report it.
The team's priorities
Cover the plan without losing the thread.
- Coverage across a changing audit plan
- IT, cybersecurity, AI and operational work may compete for the same internal resources. Identify the reviews that need extra delivery capacity, their risk rationale and their dependencies. Co-sourcing should fit the approved plan rather than introduce an unrelated assessment programme.
- Specialists for unfamiliar systems
- Your team may know the business well but need technical depth for cloud access, application interfaces or AI agents. Agree specialist questions with the audit lead, including the system boundaries and evidence needed, before turning technical observations into findings.
- Workpapers that survive review
- Evidence needs a source, period and connection to the procedure performed. The reviewer should be able to distinguish an incomplete population, an untested assertion and an actual exception without reconstructing the preparer's work or searching through disconnected attachments.
- Co-sourcing without a parallel reporting line
- Management discussions, ratings and reporting should follow your methodology. Agree who contacts control owners, who escalates potential findings and who clears review notes, so external delivery stays inside the team's established governance rather than bypassing it.
Scope by audit objective
Operational context and technical depth.
Internal and operational assurance can address revenue, AP/AR, procurement, payroll, journals and close, time and expense, vendors and segregation of duties. Select the processes and risks relevant to your plan; agree procedures and evidence requirements rather than treating every business process as one standard test.
Internal and operational assuranceIT and cybersecurity assignments can examine privileged access, change management, operations, applications, interfaces and cloud responsibilities. AI work can review inventories, permissions, data access and human oversight. Your audit lead determines how these technical workstreams connect to business risks and the final reporting scope.
Supplier and contract reviews can add a focused view of obligations that sit outside your direct control. Agree the criteria, permitted evidence and escalation route for each review. Any anomaly or fraud-risk work is scoped separately, with findings referred to the responsible team, not presented as a forensic-accounting service.
Third-Party AssuranceCo-sourced, not disconnected
Your team directs the engagement.
Your team keeps
- The stakeholder relationship and reporting line
- Engagement leadership
- Methodology and standards
- Professional judgment
- Required review and sign-off
- The audit plan, ratings and final reporting
AuditPartners supplies
- Agreed professional delivery
- Specialists when an engagement needs them
- RiskAssist™, operated by our professionals
- Human review before anything reaches your reviewer
AuditPartners is not a CPA firm or a certification body and does not issue audit opinions, SOC reports or certificates. The responsible firm, team or body retains engagement responsibility, judgment, review, report issuance and any certification decisions. Your team owns the internal audit reporting process.
RiskAssist™ is operated by our professionals to support evidence intake, control mapping, consistency checks and draft analysis. AI assistance is used where agreed; a person reviews the preparation before your reviewer receives it. Evidence references and unresolved issues remain part of the working file, not a substitute for your judgment.
Co-delivery, white-label presentation, client protection and confidentiality are offered subject to the applicable agreement for each engagement.
Bring one planned review to the conversation.
Start with the audit objective, systems or processes in scope, planned fieldwork window and your team's review format. A delivery demo can walk through how an evidence request becomes a reviewed workpaper without requiring you to upload confidential material.
For the first assignment, agree personnel, qualifications, location and availability per engagement. Set control-owner contact arrangements, approved tools, data handling, escalation points and review checkpoints. Agree what completion means for the assigned workstream, including the treatment of open items and review notes.
After your lead reviews the file, discuss which preparation was useful and which procedures need adjusting before further work is scoped. If specialist knowledge needs to remain inside the team, consider a separate role-based training conversation.
From IT risk assessment to control testingWhat does your next review need?
Talk through your plan and reporting expectations. See how agreed delivery support can fit the team's existing methodology.