CASE STUDY

Process Mining and Automation

CLIENT’s Challenge

Our client, a commercial home products company, was running out of time and did not have enough resources to complete mandatory activities to comply with a Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and Access controls audit:

• Over 2.2 million unique records
• Data spread across 6 systems
• Two (2) weeks remaining to complete the monthly audit

To meet the deadline of the audit, the client’s Internal Audit Team knew that automation was a logical and cost-effective way to process the data but required knowledgeable and highly skilled resources to efficiently create and run the automation.

OUR APPROACH

Impact Makers’ automation experts:

• Quickly conducted a multivariate data analysis
• Deployed/implemented/what? to group 2.2 million records
• Built a machine-aided audit tool? allowing audit results to be reviewed by group

skills & tech leveraged

Process Mining - Multivariate data analysis - Machine-aided tool building

THE RESULTS

By utilizing the data mining and automation strategies from Impact Makers, the client was able to:

• Reduce data review time by 98%
• Free up audit associates to focus on corrective action
• Meet their end of month audit deadline
• Generate the following months’ audit ​data for review