Dana Boyd is a Senior Internal Auditor at a global manufacturing company, where she runs operational, financial and risk audits across a distributed team. In this video, she walks through how moving off a disorganized cloud collaboration site and into Diligent gave her team a shared, central home for audit data, and how Diligent AuditAI now helps them draft key audit documents faster.
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Key takeaways
- Faster audit prep: Work that used to take up to three days, now gets done in a single morning. Across dozens of audits a year, that adds up to a significant amount of time back for the team.
- No more searching for lost work: The audit team used to store everything on a cloud collaboration site with no consistent structure. Only the audit owner could reliably find their own files. Now the whole team can easily find and reuse past audit work.
- A searchable record of past analytics: By converting testing fields into a running log of which data analytics were used, how and where, auditors can now pull up any past audit and see the exact scripts and results behind it.
- Better quality, not just more speed: Centralizing audit data in one platform has not only given the team more control over its information but an even more consistent standard of work.
- AI drafting built for audit work: The team also saves time by using Diligent AuditAI to draft risk control matrices, testing plans and scope statements all inside one platform, before fine-tuneing the output.
"By partnering with Diligent, we have much better control over our information and our data, but it's also a way of making sure that we have a certain level of quality in what we do."
Dana Boyd, Senior Internal Auditor, Global manufacturing company
How Diligent helped
Before Diligent, Dana's audit team kept its work on a cloud collaboration site with no shared structure, so finding a colleague's prior audit took time and was tricky.. She pushed the team to move its data into Diligent, then went further, using the platform's analytics tracking and AI tools to speed up the audit work itself.
- Challenge: Audit data scattered across an unstructured and insecure software with no way for the team to find each other's work
- Solution: Centralized audit management in Diligent, with a searchable log of past data analytics and AI support for drafting audit documents
- Outcome: Audit prep that once took up tothree days now only takes a morning
"If you can do it inside Diligent, you get better terminology for what you're doing. It's like having a collaboration partner."
Dana Boyd, Senior Internal Auditor, Global manufacturing company
See what's possible for your organization
If your audit team is still losing time to scattered files and manual drafting, Diligent Internal Audit Management, ACL Analytics and Diligent AuditAI can centralize your audit data and cut prep time from days to hours.
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