Solutions by Role

• Cyber Security: Guarding your ERP systems from external and internal threats
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Developing and implementing plans that ensure the ERP/HCM system can quickly recover from outages or disasters, minimizing downtime.
• Data Security: Ensuring sensitive financial, employee, supplier, and other types data are protected against breaches.
• Operational Controls: Implementing and monitoring other controls that are critical to your organization

• Audit Readiness: Preparing for your financial statement and ICFR audits, internal audits, and other regulatory audits
• Regulatory Compliance: Meeting industry and government regulatory requirements
• System Management and Integration: Seamlessly integrating with existing infrastructure, managing costs, supporting business continuity and disaster recovery, and ensuring scalability for future growth.
• Operational Effectiveness and Strategic Planning: Addressing change management effectively, avoiding vendor lock-in, and safeguarding against emerging cybersecurity threats with a forward-looking strategy.

We’ve engineered cutting-edge solutions tailored to navigate the intricacies of IT General Controls, Cybersecurity, Access Controls, and Application Controls empowering your IT teams to meet today’s challenges confidently. With over twenty years leading Sarbanes-Oxley risk management and the honor of, at times educating PCAOB members, our depth of expertise is your strategic advantage.

In the modern landscape of SaaS ERP/HCM systems, where data security and regulatory compliance present complex challenges, ERP Risk Advisors stands as your guide and trusted partner.

• Cybersecurity Threats: Protecting against emerging cybersecurity threats and ensuring the system is equipped with modern security features to detect and respond to incidents.
• Compliance and Control Integrity: Ensuring robust internal controls are in place for compliance with regulations and maintaining data integrity throughout the system.
• Operational Assurance: Enforcing proper segregation of duties, managing change effectively, and ensuring all changes are well-documented and approved to prevent risks.
• Security and Auditability: Implementing stringent user access controls and maintaining comprehensive audit trails.

We specialize in achieving this equilibrium, fortifying your systems with high-risk strategic controls and comprehensive security measures, ensuring your organization’s resilience in the face of evolving threats.

We’ve engineered cutting-edge solutions tailored to navigate the intricacies of Compliance, Access Controls, Segregation of Duties, IT General Controls, Cybersecurity, and Security, empowering your teams to meet today’s challenges confidently. With over twenty years leading Sarbanes-Oxley risk management and the honor of educating PCAOB members, at times, our depth of expertise is your strategic advantage.

1. System Integration: Ensuring the new ERP/HCM integrates smoothly with existing IT infrastructure.

2. Cybersecurity Threats: Ensuring the system is protected from cybersecurity threats and equipped with modern security features to detect and respond to incidents.

3. Data Migration: Safely and accurately transferring data from legacy systems.

4. Customization vs. Standardization: Balancing the need for custom features with the system’s standard functionalities.

5. User Training and Support: Providing comprehensive training to ensure user proficiency and adequate support structures.

6. Project Management: Adhering to timelines, budget constraints, and project scope.

7. Vendor Reliability: Ensuring the selected vendor can deliver on promised features and support.

ERP Risk Advisors partners with both IT and Finance departments to ensure ERP/HCM systems are impeccably designed, configured, and maintained for the long haul. Our development of ERP Armor and its subscription service is a testament to our commitment to system integrity and longevity.

With a keen focus on sustainability, we help provide your team with advice and support covering everything from solution administration, integration, and system updates, to change management and ongoing enhancements.

1. Project Planning and Execution: Ensuring comprehensive project plans are in place and followed, with clear milestones and deliverables.
2. Cybersecurity Threats: Protecting against emerging cybersecurity threats and ensuring the system is equipped with modern security features to detect and respond to incidents.
3. Resource Allocation: Managing the allocation of resources, including personnel and budget, to meet project demands efficiently.

4. Stakeholder Engagement: Keeping all stakeholders informed and involved, managing expectations, and fostering collaboration across departments.
5. Risk Management: Identifying potential risks to the project timeline or success and developing mitigation strategies.
6. Vendor Management: Overseeing the work of vendors to ensure they meet their contractual obligations for services and support.
7. Quality Assurance: Ensuring that all aspects of the ERP/HCM implementation meet the required quality standards and functional requirements.

Whether you’re selecting a system implementor, choosing the best ERP/HCM system, or navigating the complexities of implementation, our strategic insight helps you avoid common pitfalls and major audit findings. Engage with us early to fortify your project’s foundation—because the sooner you address these critical questions, the stronger your position will be post-go-live.

From initial project planning to testing, go-live, hyper-care, and the transition to steady state, our expertise ensures your project remains agile and informed by the latest software developments.

We assist you with security and controls which includes custom role design to reduce risk, meet compliance requirements, minimize cyber threats, and theft of sensitive data. Additionally, we collaborate to help clients enable logging and identifying seeded reports – both of which are necessary to monitor controls related to compliance (Sarbanes-Oxley, etc.), cyber security, fraud, data protection, and operational risks.

From initial project planning to testing, go-live, hyper-care, and the transition to steady state, our expertise ensures your implementation remains secure and compliant at any stage.

We make the entire C-Suite happy by addressing their risks related to Compliance, Cyber-Security, Fraud, Data Security, and Operations too.

We go well beyond the Segregation of Duties basics to ensure roles are properly designed based on the principle of least privilege, service accounts that are properly secured, and unauthorized access to mega privileges such as APIs and Web Services is non-existent.

When partnering together, we can develop on-demand training classes teaching our joint customers how to administer your software while using our risk content – ERP Armor: Rules. Not only that, but our training also teaches them how to leverage your software to test access controls for as many as 10 different scenarios. Additionally, we have a program to take over the administration of your ‘assessment’ customers who leverage your software for their audit clients and internal organizations.

This combination has led to higher retention rates and satisfaction not only for clients but also within our partnerships.