SureStep enables finance, risk, and compliance teams to automate and scale their internal controls program using IBM OpenPages Financial Controls Management. Our accelerated approach ensures your SOX, ICFR, and other compliance mandates are met with confidence and clarity.
- Digitize internal control testing, documentation, and certification workflows
- Link controls to accounts, processes, and business entities for traceability
- Automate issue management and testing assignments with full audit trail
Strengthening Financial Reporting with Confidence
Organizations subject to SOX, ICFR, and other financial reporting requirements face increasing scrutiny from regulators, auditors, and boards. Yet many finance and compliance teams still rely on spreadsheets, email, and manual tracking to manage controls across entities, accounts, and processes. The result is inefficiency, lack of transparency, and heightened risk of errors that can undermine financial reporting integrity. A modern solution is needed to ensure controls are effective, auditable, and aligned with financial governance requirements.
Why You Need a GRC System for Financial Controls
- Managing hundreds or thousands of controls across complex reporting structures requires automation and centralization.
- Regulators and auditors expect traceability across the full testing lifecycle—from planning through evidence collection and certification.
- Without dynamic scoping and reporting, organizations risk both over-testing immaterial controls and under-testing critical dependencies.
SureStep’s Expertise in IBM OpenPages Financial Controls Management
SureStep helps organizations operationalize IBM OpenPages FCM by aligning the platform to their control taxonomy, ownership model, and reporting structure. We configure workflows for quarterly certifications, automated routing, and evidence collection, reducing manual effort while strengthening assurance. Our expertise in data management ensures seamless integration of financial reporting data, controls, and testing results into one connected environment. With SureStep as your partner, financial control programs become more efficient, defensible, and strategically aligned to business priorities.
Driving ROI from Financial Controls Management
Beyond compliance, financial controls management delivers tangible efficiency and assurance benefits. By automating testing cycles and centralizing reporting, organizations reduce costs while improving transparency and confidence for finance, audit, and executive stakeholders.
- Reduced audit preparation time and manual testing effort through integrated, automated workflows.
- Increased confidence in financial reporting by ensuring controls are consistently tested, certified, and aligned with regulatory expectations.
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