Internal Audit

Internal Audit

A modern and effective internal audit is a significant success factor for your business. Benefit from our experience and upgrade your internal audit now. Our experts assist you in developing and refining your internal audit. We’ll help you optimise your risk-oriented audit planning, performance and reporting processes.

External specialists can add value for your company through:

  • Increased objectivity and credibility
  • Strong control environment and better governance and risk management processes
  • Use of advanced tools (incl. option for remote audits) and audit techniques
  • Execution of topic, project, fraud and IT audits 

Our services

Outsourcing

Are you looking for an independent and objective internal audit, carried out by experts? Outsourcing your internal audit function enables you to focus on your core business. At the same time, you benefit from a neutral expert assessment, which supports your board of directors and executive committee in their decision-making processes.

Cosourcing

Do you need flexible resources and extra support with certain tasks? By co-sourcing your existing internal audit capacity with our independent specialists, you get more objectivity and freedom in terms of how you structure the function. At the same time, you relieve pressure on your people while reducing fixed personnel expenses as well as training and recruitment costs.

External Quality Assessments (EQA) / Self Assessment with Independent Validation (SAIV)

How efficient and effective is your internal audit function? Does it meet your organisation’s needs? IIA Standard 1300 requires the chief audit executive to develop and maintain a quality assurance and improvement programme. Beyond assessing compliance with IIA standards or the International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF), we carry out an EQA of your internal audit to identify potential for improvement in areas such as effectiveness and efficiency.

Establishing an internal audit function

Has your company grown steadily in recent years? Has the number – and complexity – of your processes increased? Setting up an internal audit function is an effective way to address these challenges and ensure that you stay in control. Internal audit delivers valuable information to your stakeholders and makes a significant contribution to successful risk management and ongoing process optimisation. Our specialists can support you in designing and setting up an effective and efficient internal audit function.

Implementation of the Global Internal Audit Standards 2024

The Global Internal Audit Standards, published on January 9, 2024, will come into effect on January 9, 2025. We have summarized the key themes and our pragmatic approach for a successful implementation of the new IIA Standards here and created a concise presentation outlining the key changes and to-dos of the new IIA Standards, available for download.

We would be pleased to assist you with the implementation as follows:

  • Gap Assessement / Readiness-Assessment
  • External Quality Assessment (EQA)
  • Global Internal Audit Standards 2024 Training
  • Support in executing the relevant to-dos

Internal Audit ad interim

Is your internal audit department in a restructuring or transition phase? We can offer you the highest quality and security during this time. Our experts can take over the management of the internal audit on an interim basis or carry out individual audits for you.

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Isabelle Cartier-Rumo

Isabelle Cartier-Rumo

Head of Office Geneva, Head of Internal Audit Western Switzerland region, Member of the Board of Directors - Partner
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Marc Sollberger

Marc Sollberger

Head of Performance Advisory, Zurich - Partner
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