Continuous Controls Monitoring Software
A continuous controls monitoring software analyzing internal controls, detecting high-risk issues, improving business processes and more
Monitor internal controls
Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) and Continuous Auditing (CA) software allows management to conduct internal audits to continually review business processes, ensuring that targets for performance and effectiveness are met.
Our continuous controls monitoring solutions include:
- Determining the effectiveness of controls
- Detecting high-risk issues and taking actions to mitigate them
- Improving business processes to ensure adherence to internal controls standards
- Helping to enforce segregation of duties (separation of duties) policies
- Eliminating or reducing the need for cost recovery services
- Reducing exposure to fraud, waste and abuse
Features and Benefits
Transaction Screening
Monitor all transactions to intercept suspicious activities for investigation
Advanced Analytics
To detect complex fraud schemes across departments and systems
Investigation Tools
Workflows, case management that engages the entire organization in compliance
Purchase Card Monitoring
Our continuous controls monitoring software audits corporate purchase and credit card transactions. This allows companies to quickly detect anomalies and instances of non-compliance, reviewing all transactions to find:
- Elevated liabilities
- Departments/employees with the highest spend/abuse
- Non-repayment for personal purchases, policy violations, and misuse
- Root causes of violations
Tax Compliance Monitoring
Complying with tax laws within multiple jurisdictions can be complicated and time-consuming. Failure to meet regulations can result in substantial fines and scrutiny by the authorities. Our CCM software provides continuous tax compliance monitoring to:
- Ensure purchases are recorded in the correct tax reporting country
- Verify VAT and other tax deductions
- Ensure that the right taxes are charged
- Validate tax IDs of customers and suppliers
Customs Compliance Monitoring
Evolving import-export markets and government regulations can make compliance with customs laws, regulations and processes complicated and time-consuming. A customs compliance monitoring software allows organizations to:
- Ensure materials master data is correct
- Comply with regulations around dual-use goods
- Confirm correct EORI number and Incoterms are being used
- Validate customers/vendors are not on sanction lists
Retail Monitoring
Whether it is tight margins or high loss rate, retail monitoring allows organizations to reduce losses due to fraud, waste and abuse. Our continuous controls monitoring software allows retail businesses to:
- Check compliance to discount policies and trends
- Identify areas and stores with high losses
- Manage inventory risks and losses
- Plan store audits based on highest needs
- Monitor online, mobile, and in-store sales
Purchase to Pay Solutions (P2P)
Overpayments, false invoicing and theft of inventory are major sources of fraud in procurement. Our P2P monitoring feature allows for the identification of:
- Deadstock, high turnovers, excessive changes
- Invoicing or payment irregularities like prohibited vendors, duplicates and gaps
- Deviations from purchasing controls
- Vendors on sanction or employee lists
Payroll Monitoring
Monitoring payroll controls is essential to ensure that the correct amount is paid after every pay cycle. Our CCM software monitors:
- Gross and net pay are as expected
- Compliance to overtime hours and rates
- Terminated employees are not paid
- Employees are not listed as contractors
- No duplicate payments
- Correct tax IDs are used
RELEVANT SOLUTIONS
Procurement Monitoring
Alessa offers a transaction monitoring solution that prevents revenue loss from fraud, abuse and waste in expense and procurement programs.
Fraud Prevention
We provide enterprise-wide controls that analyze data from any source, simplify data management, and use advanced analytics to detect anomalies, breakdowns and fraud.