IT Advisory, Controls & Audit Automation
Practical support for IT controls, SOX, audit automation, remediation, cybersecurity, and technology governance.
Schmid CPA helps organizations strengthen technology controls, solve audit and compliance challenges, and automate repetitive control and audit activities.
From individual control deficiencies to broader SOX programs, GRC technology, and automated testing, we focus on practical solutions that reduce manual effort while creating a stronger and more sustainable control environment.
ITGC & SOX Advisory
- IT general controls
- Access, change & operations controls
- SOX testing and documentation
- Control and audit support
Controls Design & Remediation
- Control gap and root-cause analysis
- Control redesign and remediation
- System and process improvements
- Sustainable corrective actions
Audit & Controls Automation
- Automated audit testing via Optro Midship
- Recurring control automation
- Automated evidence and PBC workflows
- Data-driven exception testing
GRC Technology & Optro Advisory
- Optro (formerly AuditBoard) configuration
- Controls, testing and workflow design
- PBC and evidence automation
- GRC process optimization
Cybersecurity, IT Risk & Compliance
- Cybersecurity risk assessments
- IT risk and controls reviews
- NIST / ISO-aligned assessments
- Governance and compliance support
Data & AI Governance
- Data and AI risk assessments
- AI governance and controls
- Data governance considerations
- Technology risk and scalability
Controls and compliance should reduce risk—not create unnecessary layers of repetitive work.
Schmid CPA helps organizations understand where controls are failing, determine what actually needs to change, and identify opportunities to simplify or automate recurring activities.
That may mean redesigning a control, correcting an underlying system configuration, improving evidence collection, automating a recurring PBC request, or using data to test a larger population rather than repeatedly performing the same manual procedures.
The goal is a control environment that is easier to operate, easier to demonstrate, and better aligned with the underlying risk.
Organizations often reach out when a specific audit, control, or technology problem needs to be solved.
Support may include:
★ Preparing for SOX or strengthening an existing SOX program
★ Remediating IT control deficiencies and audit findings
★ Redesigning controls that are overly manual or ineffective
★ Improving user access reviews and access governance
★ Strengthening change management and IT operations controls
★ Automating recurring controls and evidence collection
★ Automating repetitive audit testing
★ Building recurring PBC and audit request workflows
★ Configuring or improving Optro (formerly AuditBoard)
★ Evaluating automated controls and system-generated reports
★ Supporting new system implementations and control design
★ Improving cybersecurity, IT risk, data, and AI governance
Support can focus on an individual problem or extend across a broader controls and compliance program.
1. Understand the environment
Understand your systems, risks, controls, audit requirements, and current challenges.
2. Identify the real problem
Determine where controls, systems, processes, evidence, or responsibilities are breaking down.
3. Improve, remediate or automate
Design practical solutions that strengthen controls while reducing unnecessary manual effort.
4. Build for sustainability
Help establish processes, technology, documentation, and ownership that can continue operating after the project is complete.
Engagements are tailored to your systems, risk profile, control environment, and scope. Support can range from a targeted control or automation project to broader remediation, readiness, and ongoing advisory engagements.
Have an IT control, audit, automation, or compliance challenge you need to solve?
Schedule a consultation to discuss the issue and determine the appropriate scope of support.