Integral Assurance services
Financial-control design, SOX and ICFR readiness, and hands-on remediation that make frameworks work in day-to-day operations.
Where Tim can help
For finance leaders and process owners who need a clearer control framework, support with SOX/ICFR readiness, or practical capacity to test controls and address identified gaps.
Tim works with finance and process owners to identify what could go wrong, distinguish essential controls from unnecessary activity, and build evidence that stands up to scrutiny. Design, implementation and testing are connected rather than treated as separate exercises.
From scope to handover
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A direct conversation about the issue, timing and support you need.
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Define the work, capacity, deliverables and who owns each decision.
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Hands-on delivery, regular discussion and a useful, considered handover.
Work is contracted by Integral Assurance Ltd. Scope, evidence access, deliverables and responsibilities are agreed before work starts. Management and the board retain responsibility for risks, controls and decisions. These services do not provide statutory audit, compliance certification, legal advice or board sign-off.
Practical questions
Depending on scope, it can cover financial reporting risks, control descriptions, ownership, evidence requirements, testing and remediation. Start with the important processes and exposures rather than documenting every activity. SOX/ICFR readiness work is scoped to the organisation’s needs; it is not statutory audit or certification.
Design asks whether a control, if performed as described, could address the relevant risk. Operating effectiveness asks whether it actually worked over the period examined. A well-described approval is not enough on its own: testing needs evidence of how and when it was performed.
Prioritise the exposure, its significance and any existing mitigating controls, then consider dependencies and delivery capacity. Agree owners, evidence of completion and a retesting approach. A prioritised roadmap makes trade-offs visible; management retains the decisions about risk and resources.
A focused project, interim leadership or specialist capacity. Tell Tim about the work, timing and constraints.