From manual control testing to continuous process assurance
Standardize, automate, and continuously monitor financial process controls across Purchase-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, and Record-to-Report. Sofy Process Controls within the Control Automation module enables organizations to embed automated control execution directly into business processes, ensuring continuous assurance and improved control effectiveness.
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The challenge
Why organizations struggle to maintain effective process controls
Managing financial process controls is often manual, fragmented, and reliant on sample-based testing. As transaction volumes grow and systems become more complex (e.g., SAP ECC and S/4HANA), organizations face several challenges:
THE SOLUTION
Automated process controls with Sofy Control Automation
Sofy Process Controls enables organizations to automate key financial controls directly on transactional data across core processes such as Purchase-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, and Record-to-Report.
1. Deploy pre-built control analytics
KPMG provides a library of standardized control analytics for key financial processes (e.g., duplicate invoice detection, 3-way match violations, blocked invoice postings).
2. Tailor controls to your business
Standard analytics can be configured and adapted to align with client-specific process variations, master data setups, and risk appetite.
3. Automate execution on full datasets
Controls run automatically on complete SAP datasets (ECC and S/4HANA), ensuring continuous monitoring instead of sample-based testing.
4. Identify and report valid exceptions
The solution filters and highlights relevant exceptions only, allowing teams to focus on true risks rather than noise.
5. Integrate with control framework and reporting
Exceptions are linked to controls, risks, and remediation workflows within Sofy for full traceability and governance.
6. Manage and whitelist known exceptions
Organizations can define and manage whitelists for known acceptable exceptions (e.g., recurring valid duplicate invoices or specific vendor scenarios). This ensures that reporting focuses on new and relevant risks while maintaining audit trail and governance over approved exceptions.
THE BENEFITS
Data driven control execution
Automate control execution and evidence collection
Eliminate manual testing activities and reduce operational workload.
Strengthen assurance with full-population analysis
Move beyond sample-based testing and continuously monitor all relevant transactions.
Focus on real exceptions and risks
Automatically identify anomalies and prioritize attention where action is needed.
Improve audit readiness and transparency
Ensure consistent, traceable, and auditable control outcomes across the organization.
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