Audit Frameworks

🧩 Strategic Assurance: Designing Multi-Year Internal Audit Frameworks that Drive Real Value

At Cybertech Risk Consultants, we don’t just perform audits — we help shape the strategic direction of assurance functions. One of our standout engagements involved developing a three-year internal audit program for a national retail business, aligning audit activity with the organisation’s top risks and transformation priorities.

🎯 The Challenge

Retail is fast-moving, margin-sensitive, and deeply reliant on complex systems and third-party vendors. For our client, audit activity had historically been reactive, siloed, and loosely prioritised — creating gaps in coverage and misalignment with the executive agenda.

They needed a roadmap that was structured, risk-driven, and forward-looking — not just for compliance, but to guide meaningful improvement.

🧠 Our Approach

We worked with risk, audit, and business leaders to build a three-year internal audit plan that reflected strategic goals, operational risk, and change roadmaps.

Key aspects of the program included:

• Risk-based prioritisation across store ops, supply chain, cyber, and digital transformation

• Integration of external data (e.g., industry trends, emerging risks)

• Balancing high-risk focus with capacity-building audits

• Agile re-prioritisation methods for Year 2–3

• Executive alignment — ensuring audit work supported broader business outcomes

This was more than scheduling audits — it was about building a dynamic assurance roadmap aligned to risk and value.

📈 The Outcome

The audit committee gained clarity, control, and confidence in the program. The business appreciated a more collaborative approach. Internal audit became a strategic partner — not a policing function.

Our client:

• Gained visibility across key control areas over a multi-year horizon

• Aligned assurance activity to business risk appetite

• Positioned internal audit to better influence decision-making and transformation

✅ Need Help Aligning Internal Audit to Strategic Risk?

Whether you’re standing up an audit function or evolving your three-year plan, we can help define a framework that brings structure, focus, and value.

👉 Contact us to design an internal audit program that moves your business forward — not just checks the box.