Internal Audit

Weaver’s Internal Audit Outsource services allow businesses of all sizes to take full advantage of knowledgeable internal audit professionals and subject-matter resources across a range of industries. They are fully dedicated to assessing risk, executing internal audits and working with management to help drive sustainable improvements. They can assist with understanding overall organizational performance and how processes and internal controls ultimately impact that performance.

Our internal audit cosourcing and special projects service can help your organization by bringing targeted, experienced resources tailored to your particular needs. Whether you need a specific, subject-driven IA project, unique scope, or additional resources to support your most critical schedules, we can supplement your teams by providing customized support. Weaver’s deep, experienced IA team is dedicated to working solely with internal audit organizations and stakeholders to provide insights on risks and deliver value-added results. Digital solutions such as data analytics, industry-tailored risk assessments or custom IA support like management/advisory requests or investigations or other customized IA support, are services our internal audit co-source professionals can provide to help you meet your IA mandate.

The rapid pace of innovation and change across the business landscape has presented opportunities as well as challenges for the internal audit profession. Many companies have found it difficult to balance innovation and embrace disruption while still meeting their key mandates and core processes. Our internal audit transformation services can assess your existing internal audit function and help you conceive of what it may look like tomorrow. Our comprehensive methodology offers an objective view of everything from mandate and perceptions of the business, to competencies and skillsets of your team, to benchmarks comparing your efficiency and technological adaptation. By applying an IA maturity framework and engaging with your stakeholders, we are able to assess and identify your strengths and weaknesses, provide recommendations on next steps to drive meaningful improvements to your function, and assist you in defining a strategy that is actually fit for purpose; no more and no less. We can also review your conformance to the Institute of Internal Auditors International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF).

Whether your business is a public company required to be fully SOX-compliant, a private company looking to become publicly fit, or simply an organization looking to implement and maintain portions of SOX for best practices in corporate governance, Weaver can assist. With more than a decade of SOX-related experience, we have developed a scalable and cost-effective approach designed to support compliance efforts at all stages. We can work with your business to assess SOX readiness, develop required SOX controls documentation, perform necessary controls testing, and assist with ongoing monitoring. Throughout, we maintain a focus not only on compliance, but overall efficiency and effectiveness. We also regularly fine-tune and nurture SOX compliance activities in order to manage scope, avoid potential unforeseen difficulties and ensure long-term sustainability.

Whether your bank is approaching $1 billion in total assets and looking to become FDICIA-ready, already in excess of that threshold and required to be FDICIA-compliant, or simply looking to implement and maintain portions of FDICIA for best practices in corporate governance, Weaver can assist. With more than a decade of FDICIA-related experience, we have developed a scalable and cost-effective approach designed to support compliance efforts at all stages. We can work with your bank to assess FDICIA readiness, develop required FDICIA controls documentation, perform necessary controls testing, and assist with ongoing monitoring. Throughout, we maintain a focus not only on compliance, but overall efficiency and effectiveness. We also regularly fine-tune and nurture FDICIA compliance activities in order to manage scope, avoid potential unforeseen difficulties and ensure long-term sustainability.

Whether your company is approaching $500 million in direct written premiums, already in excess of that threshold, or simply looking to implement and maintain portions of the Model Audit Rule (MAR) for best practices in corporate governance, Weaver can assist. With more than a decade of MAR-related experience, we have developed a scalable and cost-effective approach designed to support compliance efforts at all stages. We can work with your company to assess MAR readiness, develop required MAR controls documentation, perform necessary controls testing, and assist with ongoing monitoring. Throughout, we maintain a focus not only on compliance, but overall efficiency and effectiveness. We also regularly fine-tune and nurture MAR compliance activities in order to manage scope, avoid potential unforeseen difficulties and ensure long-term sustainability.