Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The Finance Platform Engineer's ITGC Evidence Course

Build SOX-ready evidence directly into the finance platform so audit week stops being a screenshot scramble.

The external auditor doesn't doubt the platform works. They doubt the paper trail. And the paper trail is the part you keep rebuilding by hand.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

Finance platform engineers in regulated banks sit on top of one of the most heavily audited technology stacks in the firm. General ledger, sub-ledgers, consolidation, treasury feeds, regulatory reporting, management reporting. Every change to those systems is in scope for SOX ITGCs and for the firm's internal financial reporting controls. The platform itself is solid. The change pipeline works. Access is provisioned. Jobs run on schedule. What fails at audit time is the evidence layer: the ability to show, on demand, a clean, immutable, time-ordered story of who approved what, when it deployed, who has access to which app today, who had access last quarter, which job failed and how it was remediated, and how the numbers traced from source to statement. That story today is mostly assembled by hand in the weeks before fieldwork, by people exporting from Jira, ServiceNow, the IAM console, the scheduler, and the lineage tool, and then collating it in workpapers. That is the work this course replaces with platform code.

What you walk away with

Design a control library that emits structured, immutable evidence on every change to a Finance platform.
Replace quarterly access-review spreadsheets with an IAM-sourced, auditable access lifecycle.
Build lineage from source systems to the consolidated statement that the lake itself produces and versions.
Stand up an evidence API the internal and external audit teams query directly, with role-scoped views.
Walk a SOX ITGC walkthrough from change, access, operations, and data-integrity angles using only platform-generated evidence.

The 12 modules

Module 1. The Finance platform control surface

Maps a typical bank Finance platform to the SOX ITGC control areas: change management, logical access, computer operations, and data integrity. Names which controls auditors ask about for which subsystems, which controls are usually owned by the platform team versus the business process owner, and where the handoffs leak evidence. Sets the scope for the rest of the course.

Module 2. Change evidence as code in the pipeline

Walks through emitting structured change evidence directly from the CI/CD pipeline: change ticket reference, code reviewer, approver, build artefact hash, environment, deployment time, post-deploy validation, rollback metadata. Covers the schema, the immutability story, and how to make the evidence record the auditor's primary source rather than a derived workpaper.

Module 3. Approver evidence and segregation of duties

Engineering the SoD layer between developer, reviewer, releaser, and production operator across the finance platform. Covers identity binding through SSO, group membership at the moment of approval rather than at audit time, conflict-of-duties detection rules, and how to handle break-glass and emergency change without inventing a second class of evidence the auditor cannot trust.

Module 4. Access lifecycle from the IAM source of truth

Replaces the quarterly access-review spreadsheet with an event-sourced access model: joiner, mover, leaver events from the HR feed, application entitlements from IAM, role definitions versioned in git. Shows how to generate the quarterly review automatically, how to capture business owner sign-off as a tracked event, and how to produce point-in-time access reports for any historical date.

Module 5. Privileged access and production data access

The control area auditors press hardest on for finance platforms. Covers vaulted credentials, time-bound privileged sessions, session recording, just-in-time access for prod data, and the evidence shape that lets you answer not just who can access prod, but who actually did, for how long, doing what, with what approval. Includes patterns that survive cloud-native finance stacks.

Module 6. Batch operations and job-monitoring evidence

Computer operations controls for the overnight close: scheduled jobs, dependencies, failures, reruns, manual interventions. Shows how to instrument the scheduler so every job run emits a structured event, how to chain remediation evidence to the original failure, and how to produce the auditor's monthly exception report without exporting from the scheduler UI.

Module 7. Data integrity from source to consolidated statement

Lineage as a platform feature. Covers automated lineage capture in the data lake, mapping ledger accounts to source systems, versioning the transformation logic, reconciliation control points between sub-ledger and GL and between GL and consolidation, and producing the line-of-sight document the auditor needs from a single statement line back to its source transactions.

Module 8. Reconciliation controls and exception handling

The control set that proves the numbers landing in financial statements match upstream sources. Covers reconciliation jobs as code, threshold-based exception generation, the evidence record for each exception's investigation and resolution, and the dashboard the controller signs off as part of close. Shows how to make this evidence regenerable for any close period without rebuilding the data.

Module 9. The evidence API and the auditor's view

Turns the underlying evidence streams into an API the internal audit team and the external audit team query directly. Covers schema, role-scoped views, point-in-time query support, export to the format the audit tooling expects, and the operating model: the platform team stops fielding ad-hoc evidence requests because the audit team self-serves.

Module 10. Walking a SOX ITGC walkthrough end to end

A full simulated walkthrough on a Finance platform built using the prior modules. Covers the control narrative document, the sample selection conversation, the population completeness question that trips most platform teams, the IPE (information produced by the entity) controls auditors increasingly press on, and how to handle a control gap finding without melting down the close calendar.

Module 11. Internal audit, second line, and external audit working as one queue

The operating model around the platform. Covers how to align the internal audit, technology risk, and external audit requests into a single intake, how to handle finding remediation as platform backlog items with proper evidence on closure, and how to negotiate the scope of a finding when the underlying control is stronger than the workpaper-level test suggests.

Module 12. A six-month implementation plan for a regulated-bank Finance platform

Translates the prior modules into a sequenced delivery plan: which control area to instrument first, how to land it without breaking the close calendar, how to bring the audit teams into the design so they accept the evidence model before fieldwork rather than after, and how to staff the work alongside the normal feature backlog. Includes the conversation patterns for the CFO, the head of internal audit, and the engagement partner.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

External auditor asked for the change ticket evidence and your team exported from Jira and ServiceNow manually: modules 2 and 3.

Quarterly access review is a spreadsheet your team chases sign-offs on: modules 4 and 5.

Auditor flagged an IPE concern on a report your platform produces: modules 7 and 10.

Internal audit, technology risk, and external audit each opened a separate request and your team is fielding all three: module 11.

What you get with this course

Twelve written modules in the Art of Service learning environment, with downloadable templates and worked examples for every control pattern.
Reference schemas for change-evidence events, access-lifecycle events, batch-job events, and reconciliation exceptions.
Walkthrough scripts for the SOX ITGC areas tuned to a Finance platform inside a regulated bank.
A hand-built implementation playbook tailored to your actual platform stack, delivered alongside course access.
Thirty-day money-back if the materials do not match the work.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Within 24 hours of purchase, your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.

Modules are self-paced and can be worked through in roughly two weeks at a few hours per week.

The implementation playbook is hand-built for your stack within the same 24-hour window.

Before and after

Before

Audit week is a scramble. Engineers stop shipping features and spend two weeks exporting tickets, mapping approvers, regenerating access reports, and assembling workpapers in Excel. Findings land on the platform team's backlog and the same scramble happens next year.

After

Audit evidence is a continuous output of the platform. The audit team queries it directly. Engineers ship features through the period. Findings, when they happen, are about real control gaps that get fixed in code, not about missing paperwork.

What happens if you do not address this

ITGC findings on a Finance platform compound. Once a control is rated as a deficiency, the testing scope expands in subsequent audits, more samples get pulled, more walkthroughs happen, and the team's evidence-collection burden grows year over year. The platform team that does not industrialise evidence ends up running a parallel audit function out of its sprint capacity, permanently.

Who it is for

Associate or senior associate engineers, technical leads, and platform architects inside a bank's Finance technology organisation. People who own change-management, access, batch operations, or data engineering for general ledger, sub-ledger, consolidation, treasury, or regulatory reporting platforms. Comfortable in code, comfortable with CI/CD, but new to translating ITGC and SOX expectations into platform features.

Who this is NOT for. Auditors looking for an audit methodology refresher. Risk and compliance professionals who do not write code or own platform infrastructure. People looking for a generic SOC 2 readiness course; this is specifically about ITGCs and financial reporting control evidence on an internal finance platform inside a regulated bank.

How it arrives

Text-based course in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every module, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.

Time investment. Roughly twelve to sixteen hours of reading and exercises, spread over two to three weeks at a comfortable pace.

Why $199 is the right number

Generic SOX training teaches the regulatory framework but stops short of the platform-engineering work. Vendor-led GRC tooling solves the workpaper layer but not the underlying evidence-generation problem. This course teaches the engineering pattern that makes both of those layers cheaper and more credible, by sourcing evidence from the platform itself.

FAQ

Is this specific to a particular tech stack?

The patterns are stack-agnostic. The examples cover common bank Finance platform stacks. The hand-built implementation playbook is tailored to your actual stack.

Do I need to be a SOX expert already?

No. The course starts from the control areas and what auditors look for, then moves into the engineering work. Prior audit experience helps but is not required.

Can my team take it together?

The standard purchase is for one learner. For a team licence, reply to the delivery email and we'll arrange it.

What if my platform is mid-migration to the cloud?

The modules address both legacy and cloud-native patterns and the migration case specifically. The implementation playbook accounts for where your platform actually is.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.