Audit Innovation

Innovate and Lead: embrace next-generation internal audit.

Challenge how you think and operate. Transform your strategy and talent management processes, evolve your delivery and methodologies, enable everything you do with data and technology. The pace of change is rapid. Internal Audit functions must have an innovation mindset to strive for and drive continuous improvement through the exploration, adoption and adaptation of contemporary methods, skills, and tools… all with a goal of enabling the function to better address emerging risks, increase effectiveness, efficiency and impact while fulfilling the core mission to protect organisational value.

Challenge status quo with a purpose. Innovation can be either incremental or monumental.

Embrace the benefits of technology and transformation.

Strategy & Design Thinking

Support the development of Internal Audit Vision & Strategy and help define and develop innovation priorities and plan, supported by Design Thinking methods and technologies.

Technology Enablement

Develop and execute a technology enablement plan, focused on embedding data and technology-driven approaches through the internal audit lifecycle. Build your own or take advantage of Protiviti’s toolkit and suite of technology accelerators.

Methodology Transformation

Re-examine the way the Internal Audit function delivers; covering everything from risk assessment and planning, to reporting, issue follow-up, and continuous auditing. Adopt and adapt methods and approaches such as Agile, Dynamic Risk Assessment, and High Impact Reporting.

Audit Analytics

Develop and execute an analytics strategy to deliver proactive, efficient, and effective assurance resulting in deeper, data driven insights. Take advantage of Protiviti’s analytics accelerators and analytics-as-a-service offerings.

Aligned Assurance

Drive synergy from the efforts of various risk, compliance and assurance functions through alignment, coordination, open communication, and information sharing.

Our approach

Protiviti helps transform internal audit function across all industries. We help organisations align the practice of internal auditing with expectations of key stakeholders, including senior management and the board of directors. We provide transformation for organisations worldwide by:

Evaluating current state practices against professional standards, regulatory expectations, and leading practice.
Establishing a view of current state, capability maturity, and existing leading practices, working with internal audit leaders and key stakeholders to establish a roadmap.
Defining transformation strategy. We understand the strategies and needs of the broader organisation and support internal audit leaders in translating those into an internal audit transformation strategy & plan.
Supporting all aspects of the transformation journey. From establishing a vision and strategic plan, helping to build sourcing and talent strategies, updates to risk assessment, delivery, and reporting practices, improved coordination, and collaboration with other assurance functions, to driving increased use of data and technology.