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Make ERP SOX Compliance Easier to Run

Reduce the quarterly scramble, find control issues earlier, and give auditors evidence they can rely on

Your SOX process may be getting completed, but that does not mean it is working efficiently. Teams still spend too much time pulling reports, reconciling spreadsheets, chasing reviewers, investigating false positives, and rebuilding evidence for audit.

The result is a process that depends on manual effort, specialist knowledge, and last-minute coordination. There is a better way to run it.

Unresolved segregation-of-duties conflicts accumulate through the quarter and are still being cleared in the days before the deadline, which is when there is least time to investigate or remediate them. · A quarterly timeline showing unresolved segregation-of-duties conflicts concentrated near the reporting deadline

Illustrative — example control data, not customer data

What better looks like
75% faster ERP access provisioning for a Fortune 500 organisation
110 hours Manual administration eliminated every month
915M Segregation of duties risks detected and prevented across Oracle environments
Does this sound familiar?

The same scramble, every quarter.

If more than a few of these are true, the effort is going into administering the process rather than strengthening the control.

Find Out Where You Can Save Time
Your team rebuilds the same evidence every quarter Access reviews are managed through spreadsheets and email Business owners approve roles they do not fully understand SoD reports create more noise than useful insight Sensitive and elevated access is difficult to monitor Remediation gets lost across teams, tickets, and inboxes Issues are found when there is little time left to fix them Auditors ask for evidence that takes days to assemble
Strengthen the controls auditors depend on

Not just a completed review — a control that works.

SOX compliance is not just about completing a review or producing a report. You need to show that the control was complete, the right people made informed decisions, exceptions were addressed, and the evidence can be trusted. That means strengthening the IT general controls behind financial reporting.

Focus on the SoD risks that matter

Large volumes of theoretical conflicts make it harder to identify real exposure.

By evaluating actual permissions alongside business context such as legal entity, ledger, operating unit, and data scope, teams can distinguish genuine risk from low-value noise.

A more manageable workload and a clearer path to remediation.

Give reviewers decisions they can defend

Managers should not have to approve technical role names without understanding what they allow.

Give reviewers visibility into the underlying access, sensitive permissions, business context, and associated risk.

Better decisions, fewer blanket approvals, stronger evidence for audit.

Keep elevated access under control

Powerful ERP access is often necessary. Unmonitored use of that access is not. You need to know:

Who has elevated access Why they have it What they did with it Whether the activity matched the approved purpose Whether any resulting risk was investigated

Privileged access becomes a controlled, reviewable process instead of a blind spot.

Know what changed inside the ERP

A change ticket shows what was requested. It does not always show what actually changed.

Track sensitive configuration and master-data changes so you can see who made them, whether they were authorised, and whether they could affect financial reporting.

Find control failures before the auditors do

Weak ITGCs undermine every control above them.

Finding these issues during audit testing leaves little time to respond. Finding them earlier gives your team time to investigate, remediate, retest, and strengthen the control.

Common warning signs Incomplete review populations Unresolved SoD conflicts Sensitive access without justification Elevated activity that was never reviewed Late removal of leaver or mover access Unauthorised configuration changes Missing remediation evidence Mitigating controls that cannot be proven
Spend less time administering SOX

Less effort at every stage of the cycle.

The same review, run four ways — from manual coordination to evidence that is already captured.

The same access review, run four ways: coordinated manually through spreadsheets and email; partially automated; automated with reviewer context; and captured continuously so the evidence already exists when the auditor asks. · A comparison of one access review run four ways, from manual coordination to continuously captured evidence

Illustrative — example review effort, not customer data

What changes for your team?

Six teams, one less scramble.

Compliance spends less time coordinating

Fewer spreadsheets, fewer manual reminders, and less time assembling evidence.

Business owners make better decisions

Reviewers understand what access allows, why it matters, and what action to take.

Finance and audit gain earlier visibility

Potential control failures surface while they can still be investigated and resolved.

ERP teams receive clearer findings

Application owners spend less time interpreting vague reports and more time fixing defined issues.

Remediation becomes accountable

Every issue has an owner, status, supporting evidence, and path to closure.

Audit preparation becomes less disruptive

The evidence is already there because it has been captured throughout the process.

Frequently asked questions

What SOX owners ask first.

Completion is not the same as efficiency. If the process depends on manual effort, specialist knowledge, and last-minute coordination, the cost is high and the control is fragile — issues surface when there is little time left to fix them.

By evaluating actual permissions alongside business context — legal entity, ledger, operating unit, and data scope — rather than reporting every theoretical combination. That distinguishes genuine risk from low-value noise.

The reviewer could see the underlying access, sensitive permissions, business context, and associated risk before approving — not just a technical role name. That produces better decisions, fewer blanket approvals, and stronger evidence.

A ticket shows what was requested, not what actually changed. Tracking sensitive configuration and master-data changes shows who made them, whether they were authorised, and whether they could affect financial reporting.

Far less, because evidence is captured throughout the process rather than reconstructed months later. Approvals, reasoning, remediation, and completion records are already in place when auditors ask.

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