Guardial Audit Management vs Workiva Audit Management

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.

Workiva Audit Management supports internal audit teams with audit planning, testing, evidence collection, issue tracking, and remediation. Its workflows include AI-driven features, pre-built frameworks, and testing automation. Audit Analytics can examine complete data populations to identify anomalies, errors, potential fraud, and trends for investigation. Teams can adopt and track conformance with the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards. Workiva says each plan includes more than 70 connectors, such as Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, and BlackLine, plus open APIs; iOS and Android mobile apps are also included. Plans have unlimited seats or users, but pricing and packaging are tailored to organizational needs and prices are available on request. Workiva lists SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, CSA STAR, and FedRAMP Moderate credentials. It states that data is encrypted at rest using AES 256-bit encryption and that contracts include a 99.5% uptime commitment. Global technical support is available 24/7/365, alongside Customer Success Managers and learning resources. Workiva connects audit workflows with finance and risk on a shared platform.