Comprehensive Corporate Governance Software for Sustainable Compliance

Certus Compliance addresses all aspects of your compliance efforts, including content, process and project workflow, enterprise risk management, communication management and documentation. Through a single, integrated corporate governance software platform, Certus ensures scalability and consistency to minimize deployment costs and enable companies to build a sustainable reporting and compliance practice that's easy to maintain.

With Certus™ Compliance you can:

As a result, the software provides management with greater visibility into control status and enterprise risk management - giving your company a single source of truth. The software also offers users the option to manage audit plans and walkthroughs, thereby helping you minimize total compliance costs. Certus Compliance is also designed to help you leverage your compliance software environment to support other governance initiatives.

Ensure on-time, accurate financial reporting

Certus provides a comprehensive, sustainable solution to support the most complex compliance activities. Certus manages the full cycle of compliance activities, from the design and documentation of internal controls to testing and remediation, assertions and auditor attestation. With Certus, you can efficiently distribute and manage responsibility for all compliance activities throughout the organization, ensuring on-time, accurate financial reporting at a lower cost. Furthermore, you can leverage your investment to manage other compliance programs such as Basel II, Turnbull, and 8th Directive.

Design and document internal controls

With Certus the design and documentation of an internal controls structure is quick, consistent, and cost-effective. Certus enables the rapid import of all existing documentation including policies, procedures and controls, plus pre-existing control frameworks. With Certus, you can use your preferred control framework, process structure and organizational model. For new documentation, Certus helps you manage the document submission, review and approval process, audit and track changes over time, and archive older versions of the document as evidence for future retrieval.

Evaluate operational effectiveness

When conducting tests, control owners can use Certus to refer to all the documentation relevant to that control. Certus manages the communication with all compliance stakeholders, enables the quick surveying of process owners and other users, and tracks all results in a single integrated database.

Identify weaknesses and kick off remediation efforts

With Certus, users can raise issues (surrounding the design or operational effectiveness of a control) and assign activities related to those issues. The assigned activities are then tracked to their completion—ensuring smooth resolution.

Monitor activities and communicate readiness to management

Certus provides a large collection of prepackaged reports and dashboards that give complete and timely visibility into the entire compliance effort. Status reports identify areas where additional effort or focus is needed, while trend reports enable the team to gauge its efforts relative to past activity. Users can easily drill down to summary reports.

Collect assertions and certifications of controls

Certus Compliance includes procedures and surveys for helping process owners assess, review, and warrant the strength of the internal controls. These procedures in turn roll up to senior management who can review data in Certus and certify the overall assessments as per regulation.

Prepare for outside auditors’ review

Certus keeps auditors cost-effective by making access and retrieval to control documentation instantaneous, and by supporting auditor walkthroughs with an efficient mechanism to view, capture and publish evidence related to a walkthrough.

Apply best practices across the enterprise

Certus enables you to leverage your compliance efforts to support good governance and add value across your organization. Certus is designed to serve as your standard platform for all governance and regulatory compliance activities, enabling your organization to:

• Record and track governance-related regulations and your company’s related policies.
• Capture processes and controls in place to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Coordinate governance-related communication within and outside your organization.
• Manage and report on all compliance related activities.

When you manage compliance efforts with a common methodology, you get cross-visibility to many of your operational processes. You can combine overlapping processes and apply best practices across an entire enterprise.

Use multiple compliance frameworks

With time, the scope of your internal controls effort is likely to increase. As your organization extends coverage in challenging areas such as IT controls or risks related to outsourced services, you would need a compliance platform that can extend easily to cover multiple frameworks and many different approaches. Mergers and acquisitions or a potential change to your external auditor firm are additional reasons why your compliance framework needs to be easily extensible and adaptable. Clients working with each of the Big 4 auditor firms as well as other auditor firms have deployed Certus. The product supports every major auditor’s approach with templates and services that make migration of that vendor’s framework into Certus easy. Certus also supports other control frameworks such as COBIT for IT controls, or country specific-regulations on financial controls such as CoCo for Canada or Turnbull for the UK.

Comprehensive Audit Trails

• Easy access through the user interface to full audit trail information of every interaction with the system
• Includes all Creates, Reads, Updates and Deletes
• Full details of who made changes, when changes were made, as well as pre-change and post-change information
• Reports can interrogate the audit trail to produce trend information

Comprehensive Reporting

• Integrated security and data models deliver easy, but controlled access to information
• Approximately, 40 predefined, parameter-based reports, which cover the entire project life cycle
• Easily, configured Dashboard, delivers personalized view of information
• Seamless desktop integration supports analysis
• Drag-n-drop ad hoc reporting support evolving requirements