Client: AuditBoard, Inc.
Format: E-Paper
Size: 1.7 MB
Language: English
Date: 19.03.2025
Future-Proofing Your Audit Workforce: Leveraging AI to Scale Impact
While CAEs have many competing priorities, investing in human sustainability — i.e., creating value for employees that leaves them with greater health and well-being, stronger skills, and greater employability does not need to detract from their other goals and initiatives. Businesses that act on the importance of human sustainability are significantly more likely to achieve positive human and business outcomes.
Deloitte’s 2024 Global Human Capital Trends report found that “companies that invest in human sustainability are 1.8 times more likely to achieve their desired business outcomes, and 2.1 times more likely to achieve positive human outcomes.”
The conversation on talent risk is happening in parallel to the conversation on AI’s revolutionary impact on today’s workforce. As artificial intelligence increasingly takes on manual and repetitive tasks, companies will turn to hiring talent with broader, uniquely human skills — a shift that points to exciting and positive outcomes for internal auditors When leveraged responsibly, AI can help internal audit teams manage their resources more effectively and efficiently, enabling them to focus on higher-value and more interesting projects.
In Future-Proofing Your Audit Workforce: Leveraging AI to Scale Impact, you’ll discover:
- The benefits and challenges of effective internal audit talent management.
- Four actionable strategies for attracting and engaging the next generation of internal auditors.
- A detailed checklist for resourcing an effective audit function, with considerations for hiring, resource allocation, training and incentives, and technology use.
