Internal Audit
Our Internal Audit Roadmap
- A successful Internal Audit function aligns with the organization’s evolving strategy, risk landscape, and expectations of value. Our 6-step strategic planning approach ensures Internal Audit goes beyond compliance, becoming a catalyst for performance, resilience, and governance excellence.
Define Internal Audit Mission and Vision
Establish a clear purpose and long-term vision for Internal Audit that aligns with organizational strategy and stakeholder expectations.
Analyze Strategic Priorities and Risk Environment
Review enterprise strategies, assess key risks, and understand emerging business needs through leadership interviews and document reviews.
Perform Capability and Gap Analysis
Evaluate current Internal Audit capacity, tools, skill sets, and coverage gaps relative to strategic and operational risk areas.
Develop Roadmap and Audit Priorities
Identify initiatives to enhance coverage, capabilities, and agility. Define high-priority risk areas and thematic audit topics.
Engage Stakeholders and Align Expectations
Validate strategic direction with senior management and the Audit and Risk Committee. Finalize scope, priorities, and resource model.
Set Metrics and Success Indicators
Establish KPIs to track audit value delivery, stakeholder satisfaction, and maturity progression.
Our Internal Audit Service Offerings
- At Uniqus, we deliver Internal Audit services that are aligned with the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS), global best practices, and local requirements. Our services provide independent Internal Audits to strengthen governance, enhance risk management, and improve organizational performance.
Compliance audits
- Evaluate adherence to laws, regulations, contracts, policies, and ethics standards
Financial and controls audits
- Review financial reporting, internal controls (ICOFR/SOX), fraud risks, and treasury processes
Operational audits
- Enhance efficiency and effectiveness across core processes, supply chain, HR, and KPIs
IT, Tech, and AI audits
- Assess IT and AI governance, cybersecurity, AI security, ERP systems, data privacy, and business continuity
Environmental and ESG audits
- Assess sustainability practices, regulatory compliance, and ESG reporting
Capital Projects audits
- Oversight of large-scale projects covering governance, cost, schedule control, contract compliance, and fraud/waste risk mitigation
Special projects and investigations
- Fraud detection, due diligence, crisis management, and targeted risk assessments
- Our global multidisciplinary teams in GRC, Sustainability & Climate Consulting, Finance, and IT deliver practical assurance and forward-looking insights that build trust and create organizational value.
Engagement models
- We provide flexible Internal Audit engagement models from delivery and secondment to co-sourcing and outsourcing, enabling organizations to scale expertise, strengthen internal capabilities, and optimize audit coverage based on their evolving needs.
Integrating Data Analytics into Internal Audit
- We adopt a forward-looking Internal Audit approach that embeds data analytics across every phase of the audit lifecycle. This enhances coverage, improves precision, and delivers deeper insights into business risks and control performance.
Analyze full data population
Move beyond sample- based audits to review 100% of transactions where feasible.
Identify anomalies and trends
Detect outliers, irregular patterns, or potential red flags that may not surface through manual testing.
Analytics-driven audits
Design audit procedures that are data-informed, increasing focus on high- risk areas.
The Power of AI
- We combine our deep expertise in GRC and internal audit with advanced AI capabilities.
AI readiness
Build a strong data, process, and governance foundation to scale AI effectively across the Internal Audit function and the entire enterprise.
AI powered solutions
Transform data into real-time insights and automate decision-making using generative AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent workflows.
Responsible AI
Ensure ethical, secure, and compliant AI adoption.
Built-in AI-driven Control Testing automation moves organizations from manual, time-consuming assurance processes to smart, automated, and scalable testing.
Why Us
Our deep expertise
Jamil Khatri and Sandip Khetan, our co-founders, have played a pivotal role in shaping the global consulting industry. Each brings over 25 years of experience, having partnered with diverse businesses worldwide. Their approach is grounded in strengthening strategic alignment and driving a data-driven risk focus, ensuring that our work consistently enhances value for clients. They are supported by leaders across the globe, nearly all of whom have previously served as partners and senior leaders at Big 4 accounting firms. Nagaraj Uchil, Sabri Soufan, Ankur Gupta, Srikrishnan Soundararajan, and Ahmed Moussa, our leaders in the Internal Audit practice, each bring over 20 years of experience and have worked with a diverse portfolio of clients worldwide.
Deep and diverse talent pool and globally integrated delivery model
Our partners and senior leaders in the GRC practice bring extensive experience to Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk Management, Organizational Resilience, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Internal Financial Controls, and Technology, having worked with Big 4 firms and other leading consulting and technology organizations globally. We bring the right leadership and talent to deliver valuable insights. Our globally integrated talent pool operates across our key markets in the USA, India, and the Middle East. Leveraging our offshore talent pool, combined with substantial onsite presence, we deliver significant cost efficiencies while maintaining timely, high-quality delivery.
Cross functional specialization
Our Internal Audit approach is built on leveraging deep domain expertise, allowing for seamless cross-functional integration across all projects. By merging deep Internal Audit domain knowledge with specialized expertise in technology, financial risk management (FRM), and sustainability, we deliver comprehensive solutions tailored to complex business needs. This integrated model enables our Internal Audit teams to leverage advanced technical and specialized skills and proprietary tech assets, ensuring that we address emerging risks while driving measurable value for our clients.
Agility & responsiveness
Our team embodies the essence of agility and responsiveness, enabling a dynamic environment where adaptability and quick responses are integral to our operations. Our commitment to continuous learning drives our agility, helping us anticipate challenges and seize opportunities. Free from auditor independence restrictions, we can seamlessly support our clients without the friction, delays, or restrictions caused by independence considerations. We foster a service oriented culture and effective stakeholder management. Our agility and responsiveness is enhanced by a high degree of partner and director involvement on projects.
Our technology-led approach
Our AI and technology-driven approach empowers us to provide comprehensive end-to-end implementation assistance. Leveraging AI-powered control testing capabilities, our proprietary Risk UniVerse (Internal Audit Module) product, and deep functional experience, we help organizations enhance testing efficiency, strengthen data integrity, and address challenges in automation and data management within the Internal Audit function. This enables us to not only conceptualize effective solutions but also seamlessly integrate and implement them, delivering a holistic and streamlined approach tailored to your organizational needs.
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