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Audit & ICC for Insurance

End-to-end internal audit and internal controls compliance for insurance — claims audit automation, underwriting review workflows, multi-jurisdiction audit management, and actuarial model governance.

Audit Challenges in Insurance

Insurers face complex audit and compliance challenges across claims, underwriting, actuarial, and regulatory functions — demanding specialized internal audit capabilities.

Claims Processing Audit Complexity

Insurance claims involve complex workflows spanning initial reporting, investigation, adjustment, and settlement. Auditing claims processing requires tracing transactions across multiple systems, validating reserve calculations, and identifying patterns of leakage, fraud, or procedural non-compliance at scale.

Underwriting Compliance Gaps

Underwriting decisions must adhere to pricing guidelines, risk appetite frameworks, and regulatory requirements. Gaps in underwriting compliance — from unauthorized exceptions to inadequate documentation — can lead to adverse selection, regulatory findings, and significant financial exposure.

Multi-Jurisdiction Regulatory Audits

Insurance companies operating across multiple jurisdictions face diverse regulatory examination requirements, reporting standards, and supervisory expectations. Coordinating audit activities and maintaining compliance documentation across regions creates significant operational complexity.

Actuarial Model Governance

Actuarial models drive critical business decisions on pricing, reserving, and capital adequacy. Ensuring adequate governance, validation, and audit coverage of these models — including assumption setting, data quality, and model change management — is a growing regulatory expectation.

Audit & ICC Insurance Capabilities

Purpose-built audit and internal controls capabilities for insurance companies — from claims audit automation to board-level reporting.

Claims Audit Automation

Automated audit programs for claims processing — from initial notification to settlement. Detect claims leakage, fraudulent patterns, reserve inadequacies, and procedural non-compliance across your entire claims portfolio.

End-to-end claims lifecycle audit trails
Automated leakage and fraud pattern detection
Reserve adequacy testing and validation
Claims handler performance and compliance scoring

Underwriting Review Workflows

Structured underwriting audit workflows that assess adherence to pricing guidelines, risk appetite, authority levels, and documentation standards. Identify unauthorized exceptions and compliance gaps systematically.

Pricing guideline adherence testing
Authority level and exception tracking
Risk appetite compliance validation
Underwriting documentation completeness checks

Multi-Jurisdiction Audit Management

Centralized management of audit activities across multiple regulatory jurisdictions. Coordinate audit plans, track jurisdiction-specific requirements, and consolidate findings into unified reporting frameworks.

Jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirement mapping
Coordinated multi-region audit planning
Consolidated cross-jurisdiction finding management
Local regulatory examination preparation support

Actuarial Model Governance

Comprehensive governance framework for actuarial models — covering model inventory, validation workflows, assumption documentation, change management, and independent review. Meet evolving regulatory expectations for model risk management.

Actuarial model inventory and risk classification
Model validation workflow automation
Assumption documentation and change tracking
Independent review scheduling and evidence management

Finding Tracking & Remediation

Centralized tracking of all audit findings, recommendations, and management action plans across insurance operations. Automated escalation, deadline management, and remediation validation ensure issues are resolved on time.

Finding severity classification and prioritization
Automated escalation for overdue action plans
Evidence-based remediation validation
Trend analysis on repeat findings and root causes

Board Audit Reporting

Board-level audit dashboards and reports tailored for insurance governance — covering audit plan progress, key findings, remediation status, regulatory examination readiness, and emerging risk themes.

Board-ready audit committee reporting packages
Key finding and remediation status dashboards
Regulatory examination readiness scorecards
Emerging risk theme analysis and trending

Frameworks & Standards We Cover

Solvency II Audit

Comprehensive audit support for Solvency II requirements, including own risk and solvency assessment (ORSA), pillar reporting, governance system evaluation, and internal model validation.

IAIS Core Principles

Alignment with International Association of Insurance Supervisors core principles on governance, risk management, internal controls, and supervisory review processes for insurance entities.

IFRS 17 Audit

Audit and internal control support for IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts implementation, including contract classification, measurement model validation, and disclosure requirements.

Internal Audit Standards for Insurance

Full compliance with IIA standards as applied to insurance operations, including specialized guidance for auditing underwriting, claims, reinsurance, and investment functions.

Insurance Regulatory Authority Standards

Configurable compliance with jurisdiction-specific insurance regulatory authority requirements, on-site examination standards, and supervisory reporting obligations.

Corporate Governance Code

Support for insurance corporate governance code requirements, including board audit committee oversight, internal audit independence, risk management frameworks, and control assurance.

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Strengthen Your Insurance Audit Program

See how our Audit & ICC platform can transform your insurance internal audit function with claims automation and multi-jurisdiction audit management.