Archer Audit Engagements & Workpapers vs Guardial Audit Management

Archer Audit Engagements & Workpapers tracks the audit universe, engagements, workpaper documentation, testing, and results. It provides review and approval workflows for engagement and workpaper records, plus a centralized Audit Program Library and workpaper repository. Audit report and planning memo templates support documentation, while teams can manage findings and remediation plans with comment review. The product supports offline audit engagements and shares data with Archer risk and compliance functions, using existing risk and control data to help scope audits. Archer describes its broader Audit Management offering as combining audit planning, engagements, workpapers, and issues in one system. Archer Issues Management is a prerequisite for this product. It is positioned for enterprise audit teams, including heads of internal audit. Archer says its SaaS runs on AWS and has a 99.5% composite SLA; listed SaaS certifications include ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 27701, with encryption at rest and in transit. SaaS environments are commonly multi-tenant, while dedicated database infrastructure and single-tenant environments are available at additional cost. Pricing is on request.

Guardial Audit Management is a web module for internal audit planning, fieldwork, workpapers, and reporting. Audit plans bring scope, schedules, resource estimates, and a risk register together, with estimates rolling up to capacity. Preloaded templates for BSA/AML, fair lending, third-party, and IT controls combine sampling, evidence capture, and reviewer notes in one workspace. Workpapers are version-controlled, timestamped, and signed. The Findings agent drafts remediation plans from fieldwork notes for audit leads to review, adjust, and route to issue owners. Reports generated from live data include issue letters, management responses, quarterly audit committee packages, and examiner-ready PDFs. Findings also flow into Issues Home, shared across Guardial modules. The module is aimed at regulated financial services, including fintechs, nonbanks, loan servicers, community banks, credit unions, and insurance carriers. Guardial says it is built to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 controls and provides SAML/SCIM single sign-on, role-based access, and an immutable audit log. Pricing is provided in a written proposal sized to the customer’s stage and program, scaling with modules used and program size.