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Run risk-based internal audits with full evidence traceability from planning to closure.

Internal Audit in Trigarc replaces manual audit coordination with one configurable workflow for planning, fieldwork, issue tracking, and committee reporting.

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What it actually does

  • Builds annual and quarterly audit plans using configurable risk scoring and coverage rules.
  • Executes fieldwork using standardized workpapers, evidence requests, reviewer sign-offs, and sampling logs.
  • Tracks findings, action plans, ownership, due dates, and escalation status until verified closure.
  • Generates audit committee packs with finding trends, overdue actions, and business unit heatmaps.

Who uses it

  • Head of Internal Audit
  • Audit managers and team leads
  • Auditors and quality reviewers
  • Business unit action owners
  • Audit committee secretariat

Key workflows

Risk-based audit cycle

  1. 01Import risk universe and prior findings to generate draft annual plan.
  2. 02Approve scope, objectives, audit program, and staffing by audit manager.
  3. 03Run fieldwork with evidence requests and reviewer checkpoints.
  4. 04Issue draft report, capture management responses, and lock final report.
  5. 05Track remediation actions to closure and report status to committee.

Issue escalation workflow

  1. 01Create finding with severity, root cause, and agreed action owner.
  2. 02Set due date with mandatory milestone updates for high-risk findings.
  3. 03Escalate automatically to function head when due date risk is breached.
  4. 04Require closure evidence and independent validation before final close.

Data inputs and outputs

Inputs

  • Audit universe and business unit inventory
  • Risk assessments and prior audit results
  • Policies, procedures, and process narratives
  • Evidence files, transaction samples, and system logs
  • Management action plans and update notes

Outputs

  • Approved risk-based audit plans
  • Workpapers with reviewer signatures and timestamps
  • Finding registers with live remediation status
  • Audit committee and board reporting packs
  • Regulator-ready audit trail exports

Feature breakdown

Configurable audit methodology

Institutions define their own workpaper templates, scoring models, review gates, and approval chains rather than adapting to fixed vendor templates.

Evidence custody controls

Every evidence upload, edit, review, and closure decision is timestamped with user attribution to preserve chain-of-custody.

Action closure governance

Closure requires objective evidence and secondary validation, reducing false closure rates and repeat findings.

Committee-ready reporting

Reports are generated from live issue and fieldwork data, removing month-end report rebuilding cycles.

Example use cases

  • A tier-one bank tracks recurring branch control failures and enforces escalation to regional operations leadership when remediation exceeds SLA.
  • A credit union standardizes audit workpapers across headquarters and branch networks while keeping branch-specific risk checklists.
  • An insurance group consolidates audit findings across subsidiaries into one committee pack with entity-level drill-downs.

Measurable outcomes

  • 20-40% reduction in time spent preparing audit committee reporting packs.
  • 30-50% faster remediation closure for high-severity findings through automated escalation.
  • Lower repeat finding rates through mandatory evidence-based closure validation.
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