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Integrating AuditBoard internal audit risk assessments with crucial qualitative insights

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Integrating AuditBoard internal audit risk assessments with crucial qualitative insights

Description

This session introduces a dynamic Excel-based internal audit risk assessment companion tool designed to enhance AuditBoard’s audit planning modules. The tool expands beyond the traditional quantitative model of impact × likelihood × strength of controls to incorporate key qualitative factors (such as enterprise strategic alignment, executive priorities, ethics and fraud concerns, and known control deficiencies) while integrating live metadata from AuditBoard. Participants will learn how the tool helps audit teams contextualize and document their risk universe, allocate internal and external audit budgets, and generate a defensible, data-driven annual and multi-year internal audit plan.

Learning Objectives:

Identify commonly requested qualitative factors that strengthen the traditional risk assessment process.
Demonstrate how to integrate AuditBoard data into a structured Excel risk assessment to provide richer contextual analysis.
Apply qualitative criteria to balance audit coverage, budget constraints, and strategic priorities in developing the internal audit plan.
Develop a comprehensive and custom risk-based internal audit plan, leveraging both quantitative scoring and qualitative insight.

About the speakers

Joshua Constant is a Senior Manager in the Risk Advisory Practice with over 8 years of experience in internal audit, enterprise risk, and controls consulting. Throughout his career, Joshua has focused on operational internal audits across several industries, with particular expertise in technology, healthcare, and hospitality. Within internal audit, he specializes in integrating technology-driven audit methodologies and data analytics testing through tools such as Alteryx, Power BI, and recently developed custom AI agents.

Joshua is passionate about transforming the internal audit function into a value
creator for organizations. He is a certified OpsAudit implementer and has assisted
multiple clients in integrating AuditBoard’s leading GRC platform into their day-to-day audit execution activities. Additionally, Joshua consistently provides exemplary
continuous audit monitoring capabilities, whether through AuditBoard or data
visualization tools, to enhance risk coverage, detection, and oversight.

Griffin Maynard has 4+ years of experience in Grant Thornton’s Risk Advisory practice, focusing on clients’ control and compliance environments across SOX, privacy, access, data governance, data security, risk oversight, and internal audit. He helps organizations automate, centralize, and visualize their processes by implementing GRC solutions, enforcing data management best practices, and building unified reporting environments.

As an AuditBoard-certified OpsAudit Implementation Lead (Data & Project), Griffin supports both new and established clients in optimizing their use of AuditBoard. His work spans standing up the OpsAudit module to meet unique client needs, enhancing integrations across the risk ecosystem, and developing complementary tools and dashboards that unlock deeper insight from GRC data.

Denise is a Senior Associate in the Risk Advisory Practice, specializing in internal audit across diverse industries, including AML, IT, Financial Services, and Healthcare. She brings deep expertise in data analytics and visualization, leveraging tools such as Power BI and Tableau to uncover insights and identify potential risks by analyzing current and historical data. Denise is also highly skilled in data manipulation and automation using Python, R, and SQL.

Her passion lies in driving innovation within internal audit functions by integrating advanced technologies and automation to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and strategic value.

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