Elevate your value and trust with strong internal controls
Strong internal controls are essential for protecting your assets, maintaining compliance and increasing efficiency. However, implementing them effectively can be challenging as organizations continue to struggle with improving risk culture and finding the right talent.
Wipfli’s experienced team can help you gain new insights into your organization’s daily risks and the controls you need to manage them. We help support your operations by discussing controls with your process owners, testing for compliance with established controls, and providing real-world examples and industry best practices tailored to your organization.
Why Wipfli?
We work as an extension of your team, bringing together our top associates from across the firm to leverage our expertise in technology, assurance, risk management, accounting and audits. Our multidisciplinary team means we can both protect and help drive value in your organization.
Our internal controls services include:
How we help
Streamline SOX requirements with Wipfli. We create a seamless process by identifying your key business processes related to controls over financial reporting, determining the controls and systems supporting the business processes and then testing the effectiveness of the controls. We then turn SOX program data into internal control knowledge and help provide the resources you need to fill technical and capacity resource gaps.
Wipfli’s internal audit team is ready to help your organization identify your true risk and develop an internal audit plan tailored to your unique goals and challenges. We combine extensive industry experience and practical guidance to help your organization choose the solutions and approaches that best suit your needs. We also provide quality assurance reviews and support for your internal audit team.
Help ensure your IT controls are operating effectively and securely with Wipfli. Our IT controls review helps you identify risks and provides your organization with best practices and actionable feedback so that you can be confident that your controls are effective.
Our team
Sarah G. Lutzke, CIA
Sarah leads the internal audit service line for Wipfli. Still deeply involved with her clients, Sarah leads outsourced internal audit engagements and manages co-sourced arrangements, ensuring Wipfli’s risk management consulting assistance is tailored to the individual circumstances of each client. Sarah has the experience and ability to evaluate controls within a process and provide sensible recommendations to strengthen operating environments.
Carrie Connell, CPA
Carrie has over 15 years of experience in assisting clients with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance for accelerated filers and smaller reporting companies, FDICIA compliance, and operational and financial internal audits. She helps both public and private financial institutions ready themselves for and comply with SOX/404 and FDICIA reporting requirements and provides ongoing consultative advice to clients to continuously improve their programs.
Improving internal controls
Learn how we helped one business lower fraud risk and gain peace of mind.
