# 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