AuditBoard

“When I joined the organization, we were exclusively manual and everything was done in Excel and Word, with some shared folders. We did implement a previous audit software solution, but there were a lot of pain points. Staff continued to work outside the software and attach documents — sometimes weeks after they were due. Audit reports were late and there was little visibility into field work. We had issues with timeliness of follow-up. Information was wrong in the system, or the update was outdated.”

“Darling Ingredients has over 10,000 employees across five continents. My roles and responsibilities are to minimize risk from an IT perspective as we grow through acquisitions and as our infrastructure changes and evolves. We are a centralized internal audit team based in Irving, Texas. My group is a team of five, including two auditors in the Netherlands, and is part of a global Internal Audit team of 17.”

“Being efficient with our time is critical, given that we have a small team of only four people. The level of risk for financial institutions is not decreasing, it’s ever increasing, so we have to be extremely efficient.”