Conduct Compliant and Reproducible Internal Audits 2x faster with Intelligent Automation
Key highlights
- Faster Reviews Internal audit reviews that previously took a full day now take just one hour, resulting in up to 87% efficiency gains.
- Increased Compliance Legal articles are linked using Text Snips to create structured, reproducible compliance checklists - enabling precise documentation with reduced risk of manual errors.
- Easy Adoption The team adopted DataSnipper quickly through Excel-native workflows, with audit procedures completed twice as fast and usage expanding across the finance department.
Challenge
Waterschap Scheldestromen (Zeeland Water Board), a public sector organization responsible for managing water infrastructure and environmental services in the Netherlands, identified the need to formalize and streamline its internal audit processes. With increasing responsibility over compliance reporting and internal validations, the requirements for more standardized and efficient methods became clearer than ever. The organization needed a solution that would both elevate internal audit capabilities and enable cross-functional collaboration over time.
"I’ve been using DataSnipper for four years now, and from my experience, performing the audit goes about two times as fast. And for the review, which I also do, it’s five times faster. A review that cost me a full day — with DataSnipper, it only takes one hour."
Renzo Ducarmon
Risk Management Advisor at Waterschap Scheldestromen
Solution
DataSnipper was implemented as a core part of the internal audit framework from day one. Audit scoping, execution, and review processes were centralized in Excel using DataSnipper’s automation features. This allowed the team to work faster, maintain complete traceability, and generate more standardized documentation.
Validation Snips and Exception Snips are used to test and document controls, while Document Matching helps streamline sample testing by automatically linking transactions to their supporting documents. Review time has been significantly reduced—procedures that once took a full day now take just an hour.
Use Cases
Invoice Matching
DocumentMatching is used to link large invoice samples to their supporting documentation, significantly reducing manual effort and improving traceability.
Financial Statement Review
PDFs of financial statements are annotated in Excel using Snips, enabling easy preparation of insights and commentary for stakeholder meetings.
Compliance Checklists
To meet the unique needs of a government organization, a structured compliance checklist was developed by the IA team at Waterschap Scheldestromen. Legal frameworks are imported into Excel, specific articles are extracted using Text Snips, and compliance is documented clearly below each rule. This method ensures transparent reporting and aligns with public sector expectations for internal audit rigor.
