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Internal Audit & Process Intelligence

Technology-enabled internal audit, risk, and compliance services for organizations navigating change.
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Technology Shapes Outcomes, Our People Deliver Value

Leadership teams, boards, and investors are raising expectations for internal audit. They’re looking for functions that not only execute the audit plan, but also provide broader visibility into risk, challenge whether controls are keeping pace with the business, and offer timely insight on the issues that could affect strategy, performance, compliance, and trust. Three priorities are increasingly shaping that mandate:

  1. Risk coverage, management, and mitigation — Internal audit is expected to provide a more dynamic view of risk across the enterprise, including whether the audit plan is aligned to the organization’s most significant strategic, operational, financial, technology, and regulatory risks. This includes helping management and boards understand where controls are working, where gaps exist, and where emerging risks require faster response or stronger mitigation.
  2. Emerging technologies and innovation — As organizations adopt new technologies, automation, data analytics, and AI, internal audit must evaluate how innovation is changing the risk profile of the business. At the same time, internal audit is under pressure to modernize its own delivery model by using technology to expand coverage, improve efficiency, generate deeper insights, and deliver more timely reporting.
  3. Governance — Boards and investors want confidence that governance structures are clear, accountable, and effective. Internal audit plays a critical role in assessing whether the organization has the right oversight, policies, risk ownership, reporting mechanisms, and decision-making processes in place—particularly as regulatory expectations, stakeholder scrutiny, and technology-related risks continue to evolve.

Forvis Mazars helps organizations modernize internal audit’s risk coverage, innovation, and governance through technology-enabled delivery, industry experience, regulatory insight, and responsible AI capabilities. We support management teams, boards, and regulators with internal audit outsourcing and co-sourcing; process, risk, and controls transformation; methodology enhancement; GRC enablement; and tailored risk and compliance support. Wherever you are on that path, we can help you take the next step.

NextGen Internal Audit Services

Modern internal audit has to see risk sooner, move faster, and deliver insight your board can act on. We bring together technology-enabled support and experienced guidance to help you do exactly that.

AI Enablement for Internal Audit & Risk

We help internal audit functions responsibly adopt artificial intelligence (AI) to improve audit quality, increase coverage, reduce manual effort, and generate deeper risk insights. Our approach combines audit subject matter knowledge, AI governance, risk management, and technology enablement to transform how audits are planned, executed, and reported.

  • AI strategy and program management
  • Data, architecture, governance, and integration
  • AI solutions across the audit lifecycle
  • Audit execution and audit analytics
  • External perspective, change management, and learning

AI Risk, Governance, & Controls

As organizations adopt AI across operations and decision making, internal audit and risk leaders need a practical approach to oversight. We help you design and strengthen AI governance, risk, and controls frameworks that support responsible adoption without losing sight of human judgment, accountability, and compliance.

Our support can include governance model design, use-case inventory development, risk tiering, control design, model and output testing, human oversight guidance, third-party AI risk review, and internal audit coverage of AI-enabled processes. We help you move forward with confidence while maintaining clarity, control, and trust.

Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC) Technology Enablement

GRC technology should support the way internal audit, risk, and compliance functions actually work. We help you select, design, build, and refine GRC platforms and workflows across audit, risk, compliance, issues management, and reporting.

Our work connects platform configuration with methodology, governance, training, adoption, and reporting needs. That connection helps improve visibility, streamline processes, and build a stronger operating foundation for internal audit and controls programs.

Methodology Enhancement & Quality Assurance

A strong internal audit function depends on a methodology that is current, scalable, and aligned with evolving standards and stakeholder expectations. We help you strengthen and modernize internal audit methodologies through technology and analytics enablement, audit universe enhancement, risk assessment refinement, and process improvements.

We also perform external quality assessment reviews (EQARs) that help align your function with IIA Standards, regulatory expectations, and leading practices. These efforts can help improve audit quality, increase consistency, and build confidence in your internal audit function. Our involvement with advisory and regulatory boards offers us first-hand knowledge of emerging regulations and IIA standard changes.

NextGen Delivery & Teaming

Our NextGen internal audit delivery helps organizations carry out the audit plan with greater consistency, speed, and insight.

Our approach combines experienced audit professionals, industry knowledge, a scalable AI-enabled delivery platform, modern workflow, analytics, and quality oversight. Whether you need support for a specific initiative or a longer-term internal audit model, we shape our team and technology around your priorities.

Process, Risk, & Controls (PRC) Transformation

Disconnected processes, fragmented risk and data, and inconsistent control design can obscure what matters most and slow meaningful progress. We help organizations bring process, risk, and controls together through practical experience, AI-enabled process intelligence, and technology-supported delivery—creating clearer visibility into how work gets done, where risk emerges, and how controls can perform better.

Our PRC transformation services combine in-depth risk and control experience with AI-enabled process intelligence to develop a more connected, real-time view of operations. This approach helps strengthen governance, expand risk coverage, improve control effectiveness, and create a stronger foundation for continuous improvement—so internal audit and management can move from point-in-time assessments to more informed, forward-looking action.

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

We help organizations design, implement, test, and refine SOX programs that strengthen controls, enhance governance, improve audit efficiency, and reduce the cost of compliance. Our approach combines risk-based methodologies, automation, and experienced financial and IT controls professionals to help clients build sustainable, scalable control environments and increase opportunities for auditor reliance.

Our SOX services are organized around four core needs:

SOX Program Readiness & Design

  • SOX readiness and IPO compliance
  • SOX risk assessment and scoping
  • ICFR design and documentation, including RCMs, narratives, and flowcharts
  • M&A and SOX integration support

Control Testing & Program Execution

  • SOX control testing and PMO support
  • Test of design and operating effectiveness
  • ITGC and automated controls testing
  • SOX co-sourcing and managed services

Deficiency Remediation & Refinement

  • Deficiency remediation support
  • Control rationalization
  • SOX transformation and program refinement
  • Compliance cost reduction and audit efficiency improvement

Sustainable Control Environment

  • Scalable SOX program design
  • Governance and accountability model enhancement
  • Automation-enabled control monitoring
  • Support for improved auditor reliance

Subject Matter Support

Internal audit teams often face risks and regulatory demands that call for in-depth experience. We provide access to professionals with strong knowledge across business operations, risk compliance, governance, and technology.

Our professionals support internal audit activities, risk management initiatives, regulatory remediation efforts, control evaluations, and strategic projects. This flexible model helps you address complex issues, strengthen governance frameworks, and expand internal audit capabilities exactly where added depth matters most.

Internal Audit for Financial Services

Financial institutions face increasing regulatory scrutiny, heightened stakeholder expectations, and steady pressure to improve efficiency without compromising control. We help financial services organizations modernize internal audit functions through technology-enabled delivery, process, risk, and controls transformation, and practical support for evolving governance needs.

Our services help you build internal audit capabilities that are more connected to risk, more useful to leadership, and more responsive to regulators. Whether the priority is audit execution, GRC enablement, or strengthening the control environment, we help organizations prepare for what’s next.

Why Forvis Mazars for Internal Audit

You need more than coverage. You need insight, flexibility, and a team that can help connect internal audit to broader business priorities. That’s where we begin, and it shapes everything that follows.

Organizations work with us for:

  • Industry experience that helps align internal audit with sector-specific risk and regulatory expectations
  • Flexible delivery models for outsourcing, co-sourcing, PRC, and tailored support
  • Technology-enabled execution that helps improve efficiency, visibility, and coverage
  • Governance, risk, and compliance alignment across evolving operational and regulatory needs
  • Responsible AI capabilities that help support better analysis, stronger controls, and practical innovation
  • Actionable insight for management teams, boards, and regulators

That combination is what helps transform internal audit from a requirement into a strategic advantage.

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