The Empowerment of Internal Audit Industry with AURAA

Digital Transformation is molding every aspect of modern life, from our homes and personal experiences to where and how we work. Many organizations are going through digital transformation by implementing new technologies and processes to make the business more efficient and to keep up with the needs of an increasingly digital workplace.

Companies are innovating at a dizzying speed and this rapid evolution has a direct impact on internal audit, which must find better, faster ways to identify and evaluate emerging risks. These changes provide an opportunity for internal audit to transform itself to be people-led and data-driven to effectively reduce risk, improve controls, and identify inefficiencies within the organization.

As organizations rush into an increasingly technology-driven, innovation-oriented, risky, and disruptive future, internal audit also can provide assurance that the strategy is on track and meets business objectives.

To reciprocate effectively to the digital disruption, Internal Audit must be ready to fight fire with fire by developing some innovative and transformational solutions. It is pivotal for an organization to identify and focus on the major risk categories, that too with the potential to impact the smooth functioning of an organization and the trust of the security of its stakeholders. With the best platform in hand, Internal Audit soars up to provide a better understanding to formulate insightful decisions that will drive change to help company leaders achieve strategic objectives.

Here we introduce AURAA that can transform the internal audit industry for the greater good. AURAA is an integrated audit risk and compliance platform developed by Beinex, designed to empower organizations and financial institutions to meet their most challenging requirements. Leveraging cutting edge technology and the power of AI to remove various Internal Audit and Risk pain points while cutting down the cost and saving valuable time and resources.

For all businesses, there are risks that exist and need to be identified and addressed to prevent or minimize losses. Risk is measured in terms of consequences and likelihood and Risk management must ensure mitigation of the identified risks to help the company prevent losses and achieve uninterrupted business productivity avoiding damage to its reputation and other

consequences. AURAA helps to improve the audit quality and reduce manual tasks and aids in Identifying blind spots, previously humanly impossible.

Every stage of the internal audit lifecycle is impacted by this transformation. The internal audit is evolving both operationally and strategically. By moving towards a continuous audit process, risk identification, and persistent monitoring results in higher precision audits that leverage technology in assuaging any threats uncovered. It also uses surveys and assessments to identify the underlying behavioral patterns and root causes to uncover the blind spots within the given time span and the fixed budget. All these can be monitored using real-time interactive dashboards through which the exorbitant data can be analyzed at a glance.

Internal audit functions are normally viewed as an organization’s third line of defense as an . independent assurance, but this siloed perspective sometimes results in limited transparency into other departments' risk management efforts. AURAA breaks down these silos and gives audit the opportunity to streamline processes, centralize business assets, and ensure all departments work in unison.

The digital world is changing, compelling internal audit to adopt new tools and techniques in order to effectively respond to today’s unsettling uncertainty. However, as long as the internal audit has the right tools and resources it needs to stay current with the latest developments and advancements, this evolution will bring significant value to businesses everywhere and every internal audit function can move forward in the transformation journey provided they choose the right platform.